The week before the Orlando Puppet Festival's third run, veteran Broadway performer and Tony nominee John Tartaglia, AKA Princeton and Rod from Avenue Q.

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AN EVENING WITH JOHN TARTAGLIA AND FRIENDS!

Don’t miss this Orlando Puppet Festival exclusive! Spend An Evening With John Tartaglia And Friends as this exuberant performer discusses his career and this "meet the artist" session becomes an evening of performance. Highlighting songs from his Broadway and television career, this performance features special guest (and former Central Floridian) Leslie Carrara-Rudolph, puppeteer of Sesame Street’s “Abby Cadabby” and Ginger from Johnny and the Sprites. The evening is loaded with surprises in an intimate setting and tickets are sure to go fast.

John Tartaglia is best known to adults as a Tony Award-nominee from the original cast of Avenue Q, and with families as Johnny and the executive producer of the Disney Channel’s Johnny and the Sprites. He recently finished a run on Broadway as Lumiere in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and is a 10-year veteran of Sesame Street. Tartaglia started at Sesame Street at the age of 16 and was one of the youngest puppeteers ever to perform on the show. His television puppetry credits also include Sesame English, Play with me Sesame, Bear in the Big Blue House, Jo Jo’s Circus, Animal Jam and many more!

An Evening With John Tartaglia and Friends will be held October 18, 2007 at 8:15pm and 10:15pm at the Mad Cow Theatre, 105 South Magnolia Avenue in downtown Orlando.

Opflogo_2 WHO: The Orlando Puppet Festival
Presented by IBEX and Mad Cow Theatre
WHAT: An Evening With John Tartaglia And Friends
WHEN: October 18, 2007
8:15 pm and 10:15pm, approx 90 min
WHERE: Mad Cow Theatre
105 South Magnolia Avenue
Orlando, FL 32801
TICKETS: All tickets, $20

Tickets may be purchased here or by calling the Mad Cow Theatre box office at 407.297.8788.

Reservations recommended, there is limited seating.
Contains adult themes. Must be 8 or older to be admitted.