Kids help create the performance in improv show making its LI debut
Peter Michael Marino leads the improvisation, with the audience's help, in "Show Up, Kids!" Credit: Mikiodo
An improvisational show for children 3 to 12 called “Show Up, Kids!” is making its Long Island debut on Saturday.
“The joke is that I’m there to introduce Sally the Silly Song Singer,” says performer Peter Michael Marino. When Sally doesn’t show, Marino enlists the audience to help him create a show using the props and costumes that Sally had left on the stage.
“In the show, I’m pretending that I have no experience at all,” Marino says. “The kids feel very invested in making sure the event is successful.”
Marino grew up in East Meadow and lives in Manhattan.
The one-hour performances are at 4 and 7 p.m. at Glenwood Life Center, 71 Grove St., Glenwood Landing, with food available for purchase between 5 and 7 p.m. Show tickets are $12 per person and are available at eventcombo.com/e/show-up-kids-interactive-family-show-32526. For more information, visit showuptheshow.com/kids.
Beth Whitehouse writes about families, parenting and great things to do with the kids on Long Island. She’s been a Newsday editor and shared a 1997 Newsday staff Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the crash of TWA Flight 800.
