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Gruff
Text by Ora Fruchter & Chris Scheer
Music by Toby Singer
Musicals:
SXSD
The Brojan War
Grimm
Growl
The Utopia of Now
The Match
Music (from the 2017 cast album):
Synopsis: In a dark time when temperatures and oceans are rising, we’re spreading a message of light, hope and resistance. And we’re doing it with a silly and subversive puppet musical about goats!
Gruff! is an interactive, family-friendly reinvention of The Three Billy Goats Gruff that calls audiences to action in the fight against climate change.
Gruff! takes place in a world that goats have transformed into a toxic junkyard. A young goat named Gruf discovers the magically hidden Troll Valley - the only surviving oasis of natural plant and animal life left on Earth. Gruf eagerly tries to convince her fellow goats to join her on a quest to make the world green again, but her elders are bent on drilling for fuel in Troll Valley. The fate of the world hangs in the balance.
Production History:
2018 Long Island Children's Museum, Garden City, NY
2017 Vital Theater Company (off-Broadway), New York, NY
2017 Indianapolis Children's Museum, Indianapolis, IN
2017 People’s Improv Theater, New York, NY
2014 Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA