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PINOCCHIO AGAIN!

Responding to popular demand, The Creative Place International (CPI), a non-profit organization dedicated to providing exciting cultural resources in Saratoga Springs in collaboration with the National Museum of Dance School of the Arts, will revive PINOCCHIO, a new stage version of the beloved children's tale premiered last summer to universal audience acclaim.

Performances of PINOCCHIO will be Saturday and Sunday, December 6 and 7 at 2 pm in the Riggi Theatre at the National Museum of Dance, 99 South Broadway in Saratoga Springs. LIMITED SEATING. Tickets are available at the door or can be reserved at 518 584-7780 or brownpapertickets.com. $15 for adults, $10 for children under 16. Performances December 3-5 are sold out to school groups .

This World Premiere production of PINOCCHIO is the focus of a new CPI program at the National Museum of Dance School of the Arts, ON STAGE SHOWCASE, which includes classes in theatre arts. The cast of PINOCCHIO will be a combination of adults and young people and is appropriate for ages 5 and up.

The new PINOCCHIO is a play with music for family audiences adapted by Mary Jane Hansen from a script by Don Raffaello Lavagna, based on the story by Carlo Collodi, with music by Alberico Vitalini adapted by Will Severin .

Saratogian Mary Jane Hansen is an accomplished playwright, most recently the author of SARATOGA CHIPS, presented in August, 2013 at The Arts Center in Saratoga. Her husband, Will Severin, was music director for SARATOGA CHIPS and is a noted composer of works for television and the stage. The author of the original script, Monsignor Don Raffaello Lavagna, is an internationally recognized librettist and the former director of Vatican Radio in Rome, Italy.

The performers in PINOCCHIO are a combination of professionals and students, typical of Creative Place International programs. Anny DeGange Holgate as "Pinocchio" leads a cast of veteran performers including John McGuire and Ralph Hamman, with newcomers Jocelyn Khoury and Shantia Mayer. Theatre students Kyleigh Frank, Jayda McCallion and Kaylee Ferro add to the fun with musicians Beverly Frank and Claire Deihl.