OFF BROADWAY
New York Times
LOVE’S FOWL is “...wacky and wise, melodic and mischievous... simultaneously silly and smart” with a “canny and clever libretto” by Susan J. Vitucci and “sprightly music” by renowned Broadway composer Henry Krieger.
RADIO
Ira Glass describes La Pulcina Piccola this way: "Chicken Little, star of an opera performed with dressed-up Styrofoam balls, sung in Italian, which makes grown men cry."
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Selected Quotes:
SPOLETO USA 2004
"Spoleto Critics' Picks 2004", Charleston City Paper
"Best Bet" Charleston Magazine, May 2004
The State Columbia, SC
"Spoleto 2004: Where Chicken Little is Opera"
Review: Everything Opera's Cracked Up to Be...
"'Love's Fowl' is a delightful romp through the life and loves of La Pulcina Piccola, that is, Chicken Little." by Jeffrey Day, 6/12/04
The Post and Courier, Charleston, SC
Review: All's Fair with 'Fowl' 'Chicken Little' Update Makes for Tasty Night by Carol Furtwangler, 6/3/04
Critic's Choice, February 2003 - Boston Globe
Editor's Pick, February 2003 - Boston Phoenix
Best in Performance 2003- The Oregonian
2004
SPOLETO USA 2004
"Best Bet" Charleston Magazine, May 2004
The State Columbia, SC
"Spoleto 2004: Where Chicken Little is Opera"
Review: Everything Opera's Cracked Up to Be...
"'Love's Fowl' is a delightful romp through the life and loves of La Pulcina Piccola, that is, Chicken Little." by Jeffrey Day, June 12, 2004
The Post and Courier, Charleston, SC
Review: All's Fair with 'Fowl' 'Chicken Little' Update Makes for Tasty Night by Carol Furtwangler,June 3, 2004
Boston Globe
Feature: Chicken Little story inspires a tongue-in-beak puppet opera, in Italian - 'Love's Fowl' is a stirring, funny hit
by Devra First, February 15, 2004
Boston Phoenix Editor's Pick
Feature: Fowl Play -- Chicken Little stars in a puppet opera
BY Liza Weisstuch, February 13-19, 2004
2003
The Oregonian
Review: "TBA Diary," an excerpt from Bob Hicks' recap of PICA's festival, September 21, 2003
SUNDAY, SEPT. 14: On this day I make a great discovery: Humor exists on the outer fringes. Genuine, warm, generous, unironic, lighthearted, wittily crafted humor. O, happy day!
Susan J. Vitucci's 'Love's Fowl,' at Lincoln Performance Hall, is a wonder: a puppet show, with dressed-up clothespins projected on big screens, that turns the tale of Chicken Little into an Italian opera, following the plucky heroine's further romantic adventures in a Moll Flanders-like picaresque. Bravissimo!
A SHOW TO REMEMBER
We were included in The Oregonian's Best in Performance 2003.
"Love's Fowl": Sept. 13. Susan J. Vitucci's wonderfully silly clothespin-puppet opera about the romantic wanderings of Chicken Little. Lincoln Performance Hall, TBA Festival.
Puppetry International Magazine, Autumn 2003
"A Large Role for a Little Chicken," a feature by Meg Daniel
2002 and Earlier
The New York Times
Review: "Potboiler It's Not: Nor Is It a Turkey," by Lawrence van Gelder, June 30, 1998
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New Yorker
"splendidly funny," July 6, 1998
Time Out New York
"silliness on a grand scale... Just give in and let it win you over -- you'll be glad you did." (From a review by David Nemetz, Issue No. 144)
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
"...possibly the show of the year, a parody of opera sung in Italian by clothespin-puppets that tells the adventures of Chicken Little..."
Mary Thomas, September 12, 1999
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NYTheatre.com
"I can't think of many better ways to enjoy an evening than in [La Pulcina Piccola's] company at a performance of Love's Fowl."