Pinocchia

A Musical about a Little Wooden Girl

BOOK and LYRICS by JUNE RACHELSON-OSPA

MUSIC and LYRICS by C. MICHAEL PERRY

PINOCCHIA wants to be a real girl in this post-apocalyptic world where her long-lost brother, Pinocchio, made it to the Big Time. This show also takes us back to a beginning of the tale, where Vittorio Genarro (the theatre puppet master), ‘sees’ his recently deceased wife, and daughter, who lift him as he remembers them. Vittorio has constructed a marvelous marionette, Pinocchia, (named in memory of her daughter) who learns much as her long-lost cousin chose to do — trial and error — until the cousins meet.

Cast of 4f, 4m (+ensemble of 4-8) + small ensemble
- Vittorio Genarro — Puppet Master and producer extraordinaire (m)
- Pinocchia — a little wooden girl (f)
- Pinocchia Genarro (GHOSTDAUGHTER) — daughter, ghost from the past (f)
- Cosima Genarro (GHOSTWIFE)— wife, ghost from the past (f)
- Reynaldo — a Parrot “brother’ to Pinocchia (m or f)
- Fantina — the Good Fairy (f)
- Madame Pan — Evil Carnival Mistress (f)
- Iris — Dance Student (f)
- Charlotte — Dance Student (f)
- Pinocchio Genarro— The original puppet-turned-boy (m)
- Geppeto Genarro — Pinocchio’s Puppet-Master and Father (m)
- Mangiafuoco — Mangiafuoco means “Fire Eater”, the over-arching evil manipulator who fights against humans and fairies (m)
- ENSEMBLE: 6-8 in number
  - Creepers — performers at Madam Pan’s Side Show — (m & f)
    - Sammy-The-Spider
    - The Snake-Twins
    - Sol-The Unsingeable,
    - Benny-The-Bender, 2-4 others
  - Students — of Dance — (m & f)
ABOUT 90 MINUTES
Setting: New York City. 1936 (Flashback to 1911)

PERUSAL SCRIPT (Act One only)

LIST OF SONGS:

ACT ONE
Prologue — A Theatre in the Bowery, NYC, March, 1936
Scene 1 — A Theatre in the Bowery
- MUSICAL #1 — IT’S MURDER — Vittorio and Company
Scene 2 — Vittorio’s Greenwich Village apartment on West 4^th Street, NYC
- MUSICAL #2 — PULL MY STRINGS — Pinocchia
Scene 3 — Vittorio’s village apartment, with a Flashback to 1911 after the Shirtwaist Factory Fire
- MUSICAL #3 — PINOCCHIA, MY PRINCESS — Vittorio, GhostWife, GhostDaughter
- MUSICAL #4 — A BIRD OF A THOUSAND VOICES — Reynaldo, Pinocchia
Scene 4 — Vittorio’s village apartment (w/Flashback to Shirtwaist Factory Fire)
- MUSICAL #5 — TRIPLE THREAT — Fantina, Pinocchia
Scene 5 — Vittorio’s village apartment
Scene 6 — Coney Island Carnival “Madame Pan’s Unique Side Show”
- MUSICAL #6 — KNOCK ON WOOD — The Creepers and Madame Pan
- MUSICAL #7 — NOT WHAT I WANTED — Pinocchia
Scene 7 — Vittorio’s village apartment, transitioning to Coney Island
- MUSICAL #8 — JUST AROUND THE CORNER — Reynaldo & Pinocchia
- MUSICAL #8a — Underscore/Scene Change — Instrumental
Scene 8 — Vittorio’s village apartment, transitioning to a dance studio
Scene 9 — The Dance Studio — a montage
- MUSICAL #9 — MONTAGE UNDERSCORE — Instrumental
- MUSICAL #10 — SOMETHING SPECIAL — Fantina
ACT TWO
Scene 1 — The State Theatre, Broadway and 45^th, NYC
- MUSICAL #11 — TRIPLE THREAT (reprise) — Pinocchia
- MUSICAL #12 — TWO PINOCCHS — Pinocchio and Pinocchia
Scene 2 — Vittorio’s village apartment
- MUSICAL #13 — SOMETHING SLY — Reynaldo
Scene 3 — Vittorio’s village apartment
Scene 4 — Vittorio’s village apartment
- MUSICAL #14 — THEN? — Fantina, Vittorio, Pinocchio and Pinocchia
Scene 5 — A street between the village apartment and dance
- MUSICAL #15 — GLAD AGAIN — Pinocchio and Pinocchia
- MUSICAL #16 — EATING FIRE — Mangiafuoco
Scene 6 — Vittorio’s village apartment
- MUSICAL #17 — HOPE” — Vittorio and Geppeto
- MUSICAL #18 — BY THE GREATEST FORCE THERE IS! — Geppeto, Pinocchio, Vittorio, Pinocchia, Fantina and Reynaldo