To learn more about the musical and how the dogs were found, read Paw Nation's article. To find out when the show will be in your town, check "The 101 Dalmations Musical" Web site for tour dates.
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After rolling into town aboard the Puppy Palace, their specially-outfitted purple tour bus, the 15 spotted canine stars of "The 101 Dalmatians Musical" stopped traffic and drew a crowd when they met with Paw Nation in front of Madison Square Garden in New York City. Taking a break from their 30-city nationwide tour, the dogs' head trainer Joel Slaven chatted with Paw Nation about working with the high-energy dalmatians -- all of whom were rescued from shelters or rescue groups --- using the dogs' naturally mischievous behavior to his advantage, and employing praise and chicken breasts as training tools.
To learn more about the musical and how the dogs were found, read Paw Nation's article. To find out when the show will be in your town, check "The 101 Dalmations Musical" Web site for tour dates.
To learn more about the musical and how the dogs were found, read Paw Nation's article. To find out when the show will be in your town, check "The 101 Dalmations Musical" Web site for tour dates.
Jada and Bella pose in front of their "Puppy Palace" tour bus. Photo: The 101 Dalmatians Musical
"The script for the musical is based on the original 1956 book by Dodie Smith in which the story is told from the dogs' perspectives," the show's producer, Lee Marshall, tells Paw Nation. "Nothing in the musical is related to any of the motion pictures," he says, referring to the 1961 animated Walt Disney movie and the 1996 live-action film starring Glenn Close.
To illustrate the world as the dogs see it, all the human actors will be on 15-inch stilts surrounded by an extra-tall set scaled to show a dog's eye view of the world. The lead dog roles of Pongo and Missus Perdita -- whose Dalmatian puppies are stolen by the evil Cruella de Vil -- will be played by human actors dressed in fashionably spotted suits, and child actors will play the puppies.
But Marshall sprinkles each performance with real Dalmatians. Fifteen fortunate pups bound on the stage at the end of Act 1 and during the show's finale, performing choreographed movements set to music written by Dennis DeYoung, founding member of the legendary band Styx.
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