Bluey makes stage premiere in USA

“Bluey’s Big Play” has made its theatrical premiere in New York City at the Powers Theater and will perform at Madison Square Gardens on Friday.

The stage adaptation was performed 447 times across in Australia before em-barking-ing on the US, using child-sized puppets to bring the characters to life.

“It was the first big Bluey story I’d written that I didn’t have control over the end result,” creator Joe Brumm says. “That was a big adjustment to just to bring it out of animation time and into real time.”

The production also features an Aussie cast and crew.

Director Rosemary Myers of Windmill Theatre Co said of the puppeteers, “You can’t show them a kind of more abstracted version or adults actors playing dogs. So that’s why we really leaned into the form of puppetry.”

Brumm eventually agreed saying, “Sure enough, within literally 30 seconds of that first performance, I completely tuned the human actors out. So, yeah, it was a journey for me to just hand over that level of control over to the play people. But I think they did brilliantly.”

A US tour will head to Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Illinois, upstate New York, Missouri, Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin, Arizona, California, Washington, Utah, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Michigan, Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Indiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma,Washington, D.C and Ohio.

Next week a giant 16m high Bluey balloon will also make its debut in the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade.

Source: Cleveland.com