Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse
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October
10/24/2009:
A good option to entertain your kids on this rainy day…
10/12/2009:
A great production starting later this month at the Monroe Theatrespace (720 Monroe Street).
Fun play for all ages!
MSTKids, Mile Square Theatre’s theatre for youth program, kicks off with Kevin Kling’s stage adaptation of 2005 Caldecott Medal Winner Kevin Henkes’s popular children’s book Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, opening October 23 at the Monroe Theatrespace. A comical play about family, school, friendship, and forgiveness, Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse is suited for kids of all ages and their families.
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse is directed by Mile Square Theatre’s Artistic Director Chris O’Connor who, as an actor, was part of the early development of this play at the Seattle Children’s Theatre. In the role of Lilly, the professional cast is headed by MST company member Blaire Brooks, who is well remembered for her comedic work in Scapin and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. While not gracing the MST stage, Blaire has worked in off-Broadway productions at Manhattan Theatre Club and The Public Theater, in commercials, and has appeared on Law & Order and the Guiding Light.
This production will also feature the work of Puppet Heap, a puppet design company residing at Monroe Center, who lists among its clients Walt Disney Co, Jim Henson Puppets, and the Sesame Workshop.
Reservations: 201.208.7809 or purchase online @ www.milesquaretheatre.org
October 23rd 2009 - 21:18:39 |
Saw the show tonight. It was very good. Despite the title being about a girl, there is plenty in this show for boys, too, esp. since the other two main characters are boys. This show kept a room full of little kids quiet and enveloped in the story for an hour or maybe a little longer.
Perfect for an old 3-yr old up to a young 50-yr old. But don’t worry — it’s not just for the youngest kids. There is a very good plot line that will keep grade schoolers throughly caught-up in the story, and the actors are very entertaining.
Since it’s going to be rainy and yucky this weekend, go. Turn off Noggin (now Nick Jr.) or the XBox, take your kids to this how tomorrow night and enjoy a break from your usual routine. Your kid will love it and so will you.
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October 23rd 2009 - 23:36:42 |
Aw. Now I wanna go see it
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In response to bmacqueens who said:
Perfect for an old 3-yr old up to a young 50-yr old. But don’t worry — it’s not just for the youngest kids. There is a very good plot line that will keep grade schoolers throughly caught-up in the story, and the actors are very entertaining.
Since it’s going to be rainy and yucky this weekend, go. Turn off Noggin (now Nick Jr.) or the XBox, take your kids to this how tomorrow night and enjoy a break from your usual routine. Your kid will love it and so will you.
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October 24th 2009 - 13:12:45 |
In order to get more info on the show, I went to the MST facebook page. It said that one of their company members was playing Lilly. I clicked on her page because her profile pic seemed amiss– the page is public — to read about her. I was met with a her profile pic which is giving the camera the middle finger.
Couldn’t she have been a LITTLE bit more appropriate since she was starring in a kids show in the town she lives in? (Especially if her page is public?)
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October 24th 2009 - 14:40:37 |
Oh, get your knickers out of their twist, will ya’?
If only you knew what even half of these actors are up to when they aren’t entertaining your kids! Some of them– I know, because I used to hang with them– can outdrink your ass and play a total, reckless fool at a bar.
Bottom line, they have lives. We might not agree with them, but something like a middle finger never started a war.
Next f*cking case.
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October 24th 2009 - 14:43:53 |
Moosh — I like your approach. More like this, less like other threads.
In response to mooshu who said:
If only you knew what even half of these actors are up to when they aren’t entertaining your kids! Some of them– I know, because I used to hang with them– can outdrink your ass and play a total, reckless fool at a bar.
Bottom line, they have lives. We might not agree with them, but something like a middle finger never started a war.
Next f*cking case.
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October 24th 2009 - 17:41:58 |
Well said, mooshu!
I just saw this show and it was absolutely AMAZING! Blaire Brooks captivated a children-packed audience for over an hour, which is no easy task. She, along with the rest of the incredibly talented cast, also successfully entertained the adults.
In a world filled with so much negativity, this theater group triumphantly transports its audience to a magical place filled with optimism and imagination. It’s charming, charismatic, and hilarious- without coming across as corny. And that’s a combination that’s about as easy to attain as getting a theater full of children to stay quiet and entertained for an hour!
In response to “AEF710″- I assume that you are an adult. As an adult, you should (but don’t) have the common sense to recognize that the star of this play is also an adult. Her Facebook picture may have been inappropriate if she was in her costume, or if the theater company used this “middle-finger” picture as an ad for the show- but that’s not what happened. You not only overreacted to a personal picture of an adult woman, but you then deemed it necessary to relay your negativity to a public forum- which is more inappropriate that the picture itself. Perhaps you should spend less time trying to contaminate a play with a positive message and more time with your own children- who are probably learning far worse things than a “middle-finger” while you’re busy on Facebook.
See Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse for yourself, and become enchanted with an uplifting story brought to you by a group of some of this area’s most talented young actors.
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October 24th 2009 - 20:52:21 |
Wow, ok. I didn’t mean it that negatively. I don’t have kids. I AM an actor… I just thought it was a little inappropriate….
yikes.
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October 25th 2009 - 01:31:47 |
Thanks. For all I know, AEF710 could be starting crap on behalf of *another* children’s theater company. Don’t really know, don’t really care. Just wanted to set the record straight.
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October 26th 2009 - 08:30:46 |
My little guy saw it last week and said it was hilarious…..he and his class really enjoyed themselves.
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October 26th 2009 - 22:25:55 |
I just have to say – I live in Hoboken, I work in the theatre industry, I have no affiliation with any theatre industry in Hoboken – I kind of agree with AEF. When you make your facebook profile open, you open yourself. The company made the conscious effort to advertise themselves on facebook and to connect themselves with the actress’ profile. When you do that, you have to consider everything involved.
In and out of the theatre, I have been asked to keep my facebook profile professional if I choose to keep it public, due to my employer. That is just the age we live in.
AEF710 did not say you shouldn’t see the show or smear it in any way, so YOU should get your panties untwisted. Personally, I have really enjoyed all the shows I have seen at Mile Square, but this was a valid point.
In response to AEF710 who said:
Couldn’t she have been a LITTLE bit more appropriate since she was starring in a kids show in the town she lives in? (Especially if her page is public?)
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October 27th 2009 - 17:03:05 |
And the baloney continues!
Um, no, this wasn’t “a valid point”. Lilly’s page is not “that public”. In fact, a Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse/MST Facebook page doesn’t exist. The Mile Square Theatre is on Facebook, but there is no advertisement of the kids’ show. Actually, there is an ad for 7th Inning Stretch, which means that AEF710, possibly due to boredom, dug much deeper in a search for a personal– I repeat, personal– profile shot on Facebook which wouldn’t indicate a damn thing about the show or about the work/expertise of this actress.
Whatever the reason, AEF710 absolutely attempted to smear the reputation of an actress and a seemingly successful show by notifying the thousands of readers on this site about (gasp) a middle finger. Yep. Because children have never, ever seen a middle finger before. And because (shudder) children under thirteen might abandon their Wiis and computers to search for the ever interesting Lilly profile on Facebook. Sound the alarms, the first middle finger to have ever graced a social networking page has done away with our innocence.
Sigh. The reality is that a general search would have lead one here americantowns.com/nj/hoboken/news/m...rse-at-the-monroe-theatrespa-217676 for more information. Not Facebook.
Now go take your ex-lax.
In response to micmcgee who said:
In and out of the theatre, I have been asked to keep my facebook profile professional if I choose to keep it public, due to my employer. That is just the age we live in.
AEF710 did not say you shouldn’t see the show or smear it in any way, so YOU should get your panties untwisted. Personally, I have really enjoyed all the shows I have seen at Mile Square, but this was a valid point.
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October 27th 2009 - 21:35:41 |
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/mile.squaretheatre?ref=ts
I don’t know where you were looking but there is, in fact, a MST facebook profile with LPPP all over it. If you can see it, to the left, it shows a sample of the friends MST has on facebook. The actress’ profile popped up in there….I saw it and saw the finger.
It’s incredible how malicious you think I am. All I said was that I thought it was a little inappropriate. That’s all. I don’t have any agenda, motives or angles. This was no personal attack. I don’t know her, I’m not apart of a rival company. I don’t know why you’re so angry about this.
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October 27th 2009 - 22:24:40 |
I was angry about it because her middle finger wasn’t on a Playbill, and you decided to make her behavior into the mountain that it simply wasn’t. It’s eff’d up. But I’m sure you can be an adult about it and move on.
In response to AEF710 who said:
I don’t know where you were looking but there is, in fact, a MST facebook profile with LPPP all over it. If you can see it, to the left, it shows a sample of the friends MST has on facebook. The actress’ profile popped up in there….I saw it and saw the finger.
It’s incredible how malicious you think I am. All I said was that I thought it was a little inappropriate. That’s all. I don’t have any agenda, motives or angles. This was no personal attack. I don’t know her, I’m not apart of a rival company. I don’t know why you’re so angry about this.
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October 27th 2009 - 22:33:43 |
Ignore her. You have a point that is valid, even if not everyone agrees. Mooshu has a habit of taking over threads that have to do with children’s activities. She always seems to know more than every parent and continues to argue no matter what. She has no children and knows no one involved. Every child-centric post on Hoboken411 is taken over by her odd proclamations so that parents are turned away. I get your point 100% and think that behavior on social networking sites is relevant. Please believe there are many of us who–without necessarily agreeing–understood you and get your comments as valid.
In response to AEF710 who said:
I don’t know where you were looking but there is, in fact, a MST facebook profile with LPPP all over it. If you can see it, to the left, it shows a sample of the friends MST has on facebook. The actress’ profile popped up in there….I saw it and saw the finger.
It’s incredible how malicious you think I am. All I said was that I thought it was a little inappropriate. That’s all. I don’t have any agenda, motives or angles. This was no personal attack. I don’t know her, I’m not apart of a rival company. I don’t know why you’re so angry about this.
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October 28th 2009 - 01:00:33 |
physician, heal thyself.
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October 28th 2009 - 02:48:15 |
Go get laid.
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