![]() “Memorizing it was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do.” “We believe it is the first entirely gibberish song in the history of musical theater,” D’Abruzzo said. During the May 8 premiere at the Kennedy Center, it brought down the house. ![]() The emotional high point of the show is “Aggle Flaggle Klabble,” a tender ballad about loss, sung by Trixie, which stays true to the core conceit of the book – a preverbal toddler’s maddening inability to articulate to Dad that they have left her beloved bunny at the laundromat. ![]() The puppeteers also play the combatants in a black-light scene in which Trixie’s father, played by Michael John Casey, swims through the washer’s spin cycle, tangling with an oversize bra and battling (briefly-get it?) with a giant pair of boxers, as he struggles to find his daughter’s lost lovey. To expand the 32-page picture book into an hour-long family musical, several scenes were added to the original text, and the cast expanded to five, including two Bunraku puppeteers who help Trixie perform a moving pas de deux with a much-larger-than-life-size Knuffle Bunny in a dream sequence. The sold-out run continues through May a national tour opens in October. Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical, written by Willems with music by Michael Silversher, had its world premiere at Washington’s Kennedy Center on May 8. ![]()
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