Jayme Kelly Curtis

Staff Writer

Backyard ‘Pinocchio’ Production Launched Theater Careers

Isabella Negrete and Tom McKoy in 'Pinocchio & Carlo Collodi' (photo by Chip Scheuer)

A 20-foot blue whale comes floating down Soquel Creek when suddenly a rowboat carrying two passengers emerges from the mouth of the leviathan. The astonished onlookers gathered on the banks gasp at the sight, then gasp again as the boat and its passengers are sucked back into the giant maw. This drama repeats several times as the boaters paddle madly, only to be consumed again and again, until at last they free themselves from the watery beast to the delighted cheers of the people on the shore.

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