{"id":989,"date":"2008-09-17T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=989"},"modified":"2008-09-17T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T13:15:00","slug":"uncle-grampas-hoo-dilly-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=989","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Grampa&#8217;s Hoo Dilly Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who don&#8217;t know, I do a show at a local theater in Atlanta (Dad&#8217;s Garage Theater) called <i>Uncle Grampa&#8217;s Hoo-Dilly Storytime<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The premise is that a monkey, a robot, a man in lederhosen, their butler and a guest character<sup>1<\/sup> all get together in the Hoo Dilly house<sup>2<\/sup> to act out an improvised story for the kids, with copious amounts of audience participation.  The title for the episode&#8217;s story is taken from a spinning wheel with four potential titles on it.  A kid spins the wheel, so if the story doesn&#8217;t work out, it is that child&#8217;s fault.  Or so we say backstage.<\/p>\n<p>We usually make up the titles in the green room before the show.  But one of the cast members, in preparation for our opening on September 27, started throwing out title ideas via email, and I responded with same:<\/p>\n<p>Sneakers The Crime Solving Dog<br \/>\nOnce Upon A Time in Cleveland<br \/>\nThe Princess and the Peanut<br \/>\nOl&#8217; Uncle Crabby Gets a Unicorn<br \/>\nMouse Trouble<br \/>\nOnce Upon a Time In Space<br \/>\nOh no, it&#8217;s Vikings!<br \/>\nBizz Buzz in Hive Five!<\/p>\n<p>The Hopscotch Bandits<br \/>\nThe Princess of Candy<br \/>\nThe Super Duper Spies and the Mystery of The Whatzitcalledagain<br \/>\nFour Days Before Christmas<br \/>\nThe Snow Day and the Yeti<br \/>\nPony Loses His Saddle<br \/>\nMonster School<br \/>\nDisaster!  The Musical<\/p>\n<p>Got any ideas?  Put &#8217;em in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>_______________<br \/>\n<font size=\"-2\"><sup>1<\/sup> New to the cast this year will be a donkey and a duck.<br \/>\n<sup>2<\/sup> Left to the man in lederhosen by his Uncle Grampa, who is played by a former president of the United States.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who don&#8217;t know, I do a show at a local theater in Atlanta (Dad&#8217;s Garage Theater) called Uncle Grampa&#8217;s Hoo-Dilly Storytime. The premise is that a monkey, a robot, a man in lederhosen, their butler and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=989\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncle-grampas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}