ARCHIVE: Stellaluna

©Chris Bennion

Everybody's favorite bat swoops in for the Dutch musical premiere
of Janell Cannon's enormously popular book Stellaluna.

Separated from her mother during a night of foraging, little Stellaluna
lands in a bird's nest and is happily adopted by Mama Bird,
but Stellaluna just can't shake her batty ways.

Director: Onny Huisink
Script: Saskia Janse
Songs: Saskia Janse & Guus Ponsioen
Composition and musical director: Guus Ponsioen

Actors, singers and puppeteers in the Netherlands and USA:
Steve Beirnaert, Marloes van den Heuvel, Andrea Austin Jones,
Hans van Gelder (& piano)
David Silverman, Vickylee Wohlbach, Lisa Estridge Gray, Jayne Moorhead
Both productions (Netherland and USA):

Actor, puppeteer, translator in sign-language: Billy Seago

About our work in Seattle: Stellaluna. We made this performance in Seattle, but in the excerpt you see the actors in the Netherlands with English subtitles:

 

Actors in the Netherlands and the USA	Jeannette Huizinga, Mischa Ardon, Edgard Geurink, Lobke van Drunen, Ellen Orenstein, Todd Jefferson Moore, Bill Robison
Director	Onny Huisink
Script	Saskia Janse
Music	Guus Ponsioen
Designs  puppets, set, costumes	Onny Huisink en Saskia Janse
Light design	Desiree van Gelderen, Michael Wellborn
Stage manager	Lisa Schaible
Sound design	Eric Chappelle

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