COURTESY OF IMAGO
Yikes! Six-foot-tall penguins are coming! Children and adults can enjoy this show of mask-theater, physical comedy and dance this weekend at Leeward Community College Theatre.
Frogs are generally popular creatures -- except maybe those noisy, if mosquito-scarfing, little coqui frogs. But there's that Muppet, Kermit; Jeremiah the Bullfrog of "Joy to the World"/Three Dog Night fame who always had some "mighty fine wine"; and all those anonymous little green frogs that accompany local folks on their pilgrimages to Las Vegas. ‘Frogz’ is hopping onstage
By Star-Bulletin staff
features@starbulletin.comIn short, most people are predisposed to like frogs.
With such positive preconditioning in effect, a show named "Frogz" comes to Honolulu this weekend with almost guaranteed appeal. What inquisitive kid or frog-lover of any age could resist a show in which humans, costumed as giant frogs, bring the creatures to larger-than-life size on stage?
"Frogz" is the signature work of the Portland, Ore.-based Imago Theatre and played at the New Victory on Broadway in 2000 and 2002. The frogs in "Frogz" don't speak, sing, croak or trill in the style of either Kermit or the coqui, but perform to a music score conceived to underscore the creature-theater performance as all-ages entertainment.
The titular frogs share the stage with penguins, crocodiles and, according to the press release, "mischievous strings" and "lots of paper." The repertoire is described as including some pieces from previous shows, as well as new material.
Theater fans who saw Imago at Leeward Community College almost 10 years ago may see something familiar --- or maybe not --- but a show featuring frogs as the stars, and one that promises to be a blend of mask-theater, physical comedy, dance and the visual arts, sounds like fun.
Even for coqui-haters.
Where: Leeward Community College Theatre "Frogz"
When: 8 p.m. tomorrow and 2 p.m. Sunday
Tickets: $15 to $30
Call: 455-0385
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