💔 The Notebook Has No Legs
February 5 – 20, 2016
The Playhouse on the Park Theatre – Phoenix, AZ

Nicholas Farts Presents… a love story that will tug your heartstrings and punch your dignity.

In the month of romance, All Puppet Players got classy—with The Notebook Has No Legs, a gloriously unhinged parody of the weepiest modern love story ever filmed. Starring none other than Ryan GOOSEling, this production had everything: love, loss, soaking wet puppets, and a sappy finale just begging to be fisted.

It was the most low-budget show APP had ever attempted. With finances hanging by a felt thread, the team scraped together cardboard, duct tape, and a hilariously unstable puppet-sized bed (because staging romance is hard when your actors have no legs). With only five performers covering the entire cast, two weeks of rehearsal, and a tech week that moved at warp speed, this show shouldn’t have worked—but it did.

The plot was familiar… sort of:
Rich girl meets poor Goose. Goose seduces girl. Girl gets goosed. Tragedy strikes. Audience cries. And then laughs. And then cries again, possibly from puppet-induced whiplash. It was messy, melodramatic, and painfully earnest in the best possible way—wrapped in the signature APP irreverence and backed by cardboard sets that wobbled as hard as the emotional tone.

Billed as “February is for lovers…”, this show embraced every cheesy trope and threw in plenty of off-color puppet mischief to balance the sap. It was the rom-com spoof you didn’t know you needed, all performed by a broke troupe of artists with more heart than budget.

The Notebook Has No Legs didn’t just spoof a movie—it proved that even at their lowest financially, All Puppet Players could still deliver a punchy, hilarious, and somehow touching night of theater.

Performances ran:
February 5 – 20, 2016
The Playhouse on the Park Theatre – Phoenix, AZ
(Soaked puppets. Sappy endings. And a Goose you'll never forget.)