Or is he? It’s up to Jake to either find the talent that lies within or embarrass himself in front of the entire school.

All is well until Jake discovers that the end-of-the-semester talent show is only two weeks away, and Jake is short one very important thing…talent. So how did Jake get accepted to the Music and Art Academy? He faked it.Īlongside an eclectic group of academy classmates, and with advice from his best friend, Jake tries to fit in at a school where things like garbage sculpting and writing art reviews of bird poop splatter are the norm. He can’t read music very well, and he can’t improvise. There’s no bones about it: young readers will get a taste of the classic in a fun and humerus way (wocka wocka).īlack sixth-grader Jake Liston can only play one song on the piano. As in many children’s stories, there is entertainment for older readers with abundant modern references, often found in footnotes, as in a tidbit about Beaker’s burial alongside Oscar Wilde, Molière, and Jim Morrison. This puntastic tale is full of beloved faces, such as the grouchy pranksters Statler and Waldorf. This may cause older readers mild confusion at first, but children will likely read without inhibition, as the experience of coming across names and objects they recognize and some things they may not is a familiar one. The main difference between this book and the classic (other than the cast) is the conglomeration of time periods, with a mix of details drawn from both the 21st and the 19th centuries. As in the classic, Piggy Daaé rises as a star of the Paris Opera House due to training from an Angel of Music, who in this tale is a Koozebanian of Music from the planet Koozebane (or is he?).

Vicomte Kermit de Chagny and Mademoiselle Piggy Daaé are the main characters and love interests in this tragic tale. The plot is much the same as the original, with Muppets filling in for the original characters. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Phantom of the OperaĪn old theatre under new management a diva who thinks she can sing a young ingenue who really can a masked man who wreaks havoc if he doesn't get his own way.The Muppets put a humorous spin on the classic tragedy The Phantom of the Opera.

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