SANTA CLARITA, Calif.,
Oct. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/
-- From the brilliant mind of legendary puppeteer Jim Henson, and brought to life by The Jim
Henson Company and Director John
Tartaglia, Jim Henson's
Inspired Silliness will entertain audiences of all ages
onboard the new Sky Princess in 2019 and
Enchanted Princess in 2020.
New and exclusive to Princess Cruises, Jim Henson's Inspired
Silliness recreates and reimagines several of Jim Henson's hilarious, innovative and magical
works from early in his prolific career in a 30-minute performance.
The Princess production show singers and dancers will bring to life
the comedy, mind-blowing visuals, memorable music and
world-renowned Henson style of puppetry that has redefined the
artform. With a colorful cast of new puppets from Jim Henson's Creature Shop, including several
newly designed characters, the show captures the spirit and legacy
of Jim Henson and includes a
lighthearted video introduction by his son Brian Henson.
"Audiences experience something special and mesmerizing while
being entertained by puppetry, and Inspired Silliness
will give our guests an incredibly unique and new entertainment
offering," said Denise Saviss,
Princess Cruises vice president of entertainment experience. "You
can't help but smile, laugh out loud and sing along to this
original Henson production and feel connected to the performers and
the audience during this show."
The Inspired Silliness creative team
includes:
Reimagined & Directed by John
Tartgalia – Directing: The Wizard of Oz, Shrek the
Musical and Tarzan (Muny), Claudio
Quest (New York Musical Theatre Festival, winner
Outstanding Direction, Best of the NYMF),Elmo the Musical,
Live! (Sesame Place), Avenue Q (off-Broadway, Resident
Director (2012-2015). Theatre Performance: Broadway debut in
Avenue Q (Tony nominee), creating the roles of Princeton and Rod. Other Broadway: Lumiere in
Beauty and the Beast, and Pinocchio in Shrek The
Musical. Television: Best known to parents and kids as "Johnny"
from Disney's Johnny and the Sprites (Daytime Emmy award
nomination) on Disney Junior Worldwide. "Sesame Street" (13
Seasons), "Bear in the Big Blue House" (Disney Channel), "Ugly
Betty" (ABC), "Animal Jam" (Discovery Kids), "The Wubbulous World
of Dr. Seuss" (Nickelodeon), "Play with me Sesame" (Sprout/Noggin),
"Blue's Room" (Nickelodeon), "JoJo's Circus" (Disney Channel). His
acclaimed off-Broadway, national and international touring show
ImaginOcean, a new Jim Henson Company series on PBS entitled
Splash and Bubbles with John serving as an executive
producer and Emmy-nominated performer of "Splash." John is also the
host of SiriusXM On Broadway's Sunday Funday.
Puppets by Jim Henson's
Creature Shop - Jim Henson's
Creature Shop™ provides performed digital visual effects,
animatronic creatures, animation and soft puppets to the
international film, television, advertising, stage production, and
theme park industries. The Shop's most recent work can be seen
in the critically acclaimed Netflix series The Dark Crystal: Age
of Resistance. Based in Los
Angeles and New York with
satellite shop capabilities internationally, the Shop is known for
designing and building some of the world's best-known characters
including the Sesame Street puppets, the classic
Muppets, the dinosaurs from Dinosaurs, the aliens
from Farscape and the fantastical creatures from The Dark
Crystal and Labyrinth. Other feature film credits
include Where the Wild Things Are, Forgetting
Sarah Marshall, and
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The shop is also
known for its live performance work with artists like Cee Lo Green, Kanye
West, Lady Gaga and Deadmau5 and stage productions like
The Secret Silk for Princess Cruises and Henson
Alternative's Puppet Up! - Uncensored. Themed
entertainment clients include World of Coca Cola, Universal Studios
Hollywood and Hershey's Chocolate World. A recipient of more
than 9 Emmy Awards® for its outstanding work
building puppets for Sesame Street, the Shop also
received an Academy Award for its visual effects work on the film
Babe. Other awards include a Scientific and Engineering
Academy Award® for the Henson Performance Control System, and
an Emmy Award for the Henson Digital Puppetry Studio.
Set Designer Anna Louizos – A three-time Tony Award
nominee, has designed sets for such Broadway musicals as School
of Rock (sets/costumes –for US, London and National Tour); Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn; The Mystery
of Edwin Drood; In the
Heights; High Fidelity; Dames at Sea; Honeymoon in Vegas; It
ShouldaBeen You; Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella; Avenue
Q; The Performers; Irving
Berlin's White Christmas; Curtains; Baby It's You;
All About Me; To Be Or Not To Be; Steel Magnolias; Golda's
Balcony. She has also designed numerous regional and off
Broadway shows across the US; some notable world premieres include
Disney's Aladdin (5thAvenue Theatre, Seattle), Minsky's, (Ahmanson, LA);
Altar Boyz (New World Stages, NYC); Speech and Debate
(New York); Jonathan Larson's tick, tick… BOOM!
(Jane Street, NYC); Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas (Goodspeed,
CT); Vanities, the Musical (Second Stage, NYC); In
Transit(Primary Stages, NYC). USITT 2016 Distinguished
Achievement Award; NAACP 2011 Theatre Award For In the
Heights. Art Director: "Sex and the City" (HBO). Founder of
BROADWAY DESIGN EXCHANGE, an online theatrical marketplace.
More details about the robust onboard features
and itineraries of new cruise ships Sky
Princess and Enchanted Princess can be
found at www.princess.com.
Additional information about Princess Cruises is available
through a professional travel advisor, by calling 1-800-PRINCESS
(1-800-774-6237), or by visiting the company's website
at www.princess.com.
About Princess Cruises
One of the best-known names in
cruising, Princess Cruises is the fastest growing international
premium cruise line and tour company operating a fleet of 18 modern
cruise ships, carrying two million guests each year to 380
destinations around the globe, including the Caribbean, Alaska, Panama Canal, Mexican Riviera,
Europe, South America, Australia/New
Zealand, the South Pacific, Hawaii, Asia,
Canada/New England, Antarctica and World Cruises. A team of
professional destination experts have curated 170 itineraries,
ranging in length from three to 111 days and Princess Cruises is
continuously recognized as "Best Cruise Line for
Itineraries."
In 2017 Princess Cruises, with parent company Carnival
Corporation, introduced MedallionClass Vacations enabled
by the OceanMedallion, the vacation industry's most advanced
wearable device, provided free to each guest sailing on
a MedallionClass ship. The award-winning innovation
offers the fastest way to a hassle-free, personalized vacation
giving guests more time to do the things they love
most. MedallionClass Vacations will be activated on
five ships by the end of 2019. An activation plan will continue
across the global fleet in 2020 and beyond.
Princess Cruises continues its multi-year, "Come Back New
Promise" – a $450 million-dollar
product innovation and cruise ship renovation campaign that will
continue to enhance the line's onboard guest experience. These
enhancements result in more moments of awe, lifetime memories and
meaningful stories for guests to share from their cruise vacation.
The product innovations include partnerships with award-winning
Chef Curtis Stone; engaging
entertainment inspired shows with Broadway-legend Stephen Schwartz; immersive activities for the
whole family from Discovery and Animal Planet that include
exclusive shore excursions to onboard activities; the ultimate
sleep at sea with the award-winning Princess Luxury Bed and
more.
Two new Royal-class ships are currently under construction -
Enchanted Princess, scheduled for delivery in June 2020, followed by Discovery Princess in
November 2021. Princess previously
announced that two new (LNG) ships which will be the largest ships
in the Princess fleet, accommodating approximately 4,300 guests are
planned for delivery in 2023 and 2025. Princess now has four ships
arriving over the next five years between 2020 and 2025. The
company is part of Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL;
NYSE:CUK).
About The Jim Henson Company
The Jim Henson Company has remained an established leader in family
entertainment for over 60 years and is recognized worldwide as an
innovator in puppetry, animatronics and digital animation. Best
known as creators of the world-famous Muppets, Henson has received
over 50 Emmy Awards and nine Grammy Awards. Recent credits include
the critically acclaimed Netflix series The Dark Crystal:
Age of Resistance, Dot. (Universal Kids
/Hulu), Word Party (Netflix),
and Doozers (Hulu/ Sprout), and the
Emmy®-nominated Splash and
Bubbles (PBS), Julie's
Greenroom (Netflix), Sid the Science
Kid (PBS), Dinosaur Train (PBS),
and Pajanimals (Universal Kids). Television
productions include Fraggle Rock, The
Storyteller and the sci-fi cult
series Farscape. Features include Sony Pictures
Animation's The Star and
Disney's Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good,
Very Bad Day, as well as The Dark
Crystal, Labyrinth, MirrorMask, and
Jim Henson's Turkey
Hollow. The Company is currently in production on Guillermo Del
Toro's Pinocchio for Netflix.
With additional locations in New
York and London, The Jim
Henson Company is headquartered in Los
Angeles on the historic Charlie
Chaplin lot, complete with soundstage and postproduction
facilities. The Company is home to Jim
Henson's Creature Shop™, a pre-eminent character-building
and visual effects group with international film, television, theme
park and advertising clients, as well as Henson Recording Studios,
one of the music industry's top recording facilities known for its
world-class blend of state-of-the-art and vintage equipment. The
Company's Henson Alternative brand includes the feature film The
Happytime Murders, Netflix's The Curious Creations of
Christine McConnell, and the
live puppet improvisational show Puppet-Up! – Uncensored,
currently on tour.
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