{"id":32871,"date":"2023-04-02T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/?p=32871"},"modified":"2023-04-02T12:42:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T17:42:14","slug":"for-the-love-of-a-glove-2-21-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/for-the-love-of-a-glove-2-21-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"FOR THE\u00a0LOVE\u00a0OF\u00a0A\u00a0GLOVE 2\/21\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

New Musical Imagines Michael Jackson’s Story As Told By His Famous Glove & Puppets- w\/ Director <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FOR THE LOVE OF A GLOVE <\/strong>imagines a fresh, revisionist view of the strange forces that shaped Jackson and the scandals that bedeviled him. By refracting well-documented life events through the narration of Michael\u2019s iconic white glove \u2014 a sentient alien glove attempting a takeover of humanity \u2014 the show serves as an unflinching interrogation of the roles that racism, homophobia and religion played in the creation of one of pop culture\u2019s most mystifying titans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FOR THE LOVE OF A GLOVE <\/strong>utilizes a combination of actors and incredible life-sized puppets to tell the story of Michael Jackson\u2019s career and home life. LA Weekly <\/strong>writes: \u201c[The musical] takes the timeline of Jackson\u2019s life \u2026 and expands the story into <\/p>\n\n\n\n

surreal absurdity while consciously weaving in sociological, political and religious commentary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The stars here are the 20 incredible life-sized puppets: ambitious works of art, integrated with live, visible actors that recall the Broadway musical AVENUE Q<\/strong>.\u201d The puppets, designed by renowned puppeteer Robin Walsh, draw from the Japanese Bunraku form<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and are operated in full view of the audience. Realistic and close to life size, these twenty original works of art portray members of the Jackson 5<\/strong>, Donny Osmond<\/strong>, Barbara Walters, Emmanuel Lewis <\/strong>and Corey Feldman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guest Available: Julien Nitzberg<\/strong> is the director & writer of For The Love Of A Glove: An Unauthorized Musical Fable About The Life of Michael Jackson Told By His Glove<\/em>. He has also written scripts for HBO, Showtime, Amazon Films, TNT, USA, IFC, Paramount Studios, CBS Studios and NBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tickets to FOR THE LOVE OF A GLOVE <\/strong>are on sale today at https:\/\/<\/strong>www.fortheloveofaglove.com<\/strong>.<\/a> Reach the production on Instagram and Twitter at @fortheloveofaglove <\/strong>and on Facebook at \u201cFor the Love of a Glove.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FOR THE LOVE OF A GLOVE <\/strong>Opens February 25, 2023 at Carl Sagan-Ann Druyan Theater at the Center For Inquiry West (CFI) on 2535 W. Temple Street<\/a> in Los Angeles<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New Musical Imagines Michael Jackson’s Story As Told By His Famous Glove & Puppets- w\/ Director  FOR THE LOVE OF A GLOVE imagines a fresh, revisionist view of the strange forces that shaped Jackson and the scandals that bedeviled him. By refracting well-documented life events through the narration of Michael\u2019s iconic white glove \u2014 a sentient alien glove attempting a takeover of humanity \u2014 the show serves as an unflinching interrogation of the roles that racism, homophobia and religion played in the creation of one of pop culture\u2019s most mystifying titans. FOR THE LOVE OF A GLOVE utilizes a combination of actors and incredible life-sized puppets to tell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nws"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33142,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32871\/revisions\/33142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}