DON'T LET THE PIGEON DRIVE THE BUS: THE MUSICAL TOUR DATES

By now I assume you've heard the news:

DON'T LET THE PIGEON DRIVE THE BUS:

THE MUSICAL.

the show Mr. Willems and I wrote,

is a sooper huge hit!

And while it's

 seven week run at the

Kennedy Center

is coming to a close,

that doesn't mean it's over.

Because next month the show is hitting the road and

coming to 

YOUR TOWN.

Or maybe not.

But check the schedule to see if it is!

Because you don't wanna miss it!

Here's the schedule:

January 15, 2020

• Charlottesville, VA
  Paramount Theatre
• January 17, 2020
  Greenville, NC
  East Carolina University- Wright Auditorium
  
  
  January 23, 2020
• Orange Park, FL
  Thrasher Horne Center
  
  
  January 25, 2020
• Fort Lauderdale, FL
  The Broward Center — Amaturo Theater
  
  
  January 27-31, 2020
• West Palm Beach, FL
  The Kravis Center- Persson Hall
• February 1, 2020
  Lake Worth, FL
  Duncan Theater at Palm Beach State
  
  
  February 3, 2020
• Sarasota, FL
  Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
• February 9-10, 2020
  Charleston SC 
  Gaillard Center
  
  
  February 12, 2020
• Knoxville, TN
  Bijou Theatre
  
  
  February 13-14, 2020
• Paducah, KY
  The Carson Center
  
  
  February 17-18, 2020
• Dayton, OH
  Victoria Theatre
  
  
  February 19, 2020
• Indianapolis, IN
  Clowes Memorial Hall at Butler Arts Center
  
  
  February 22, 2020
• Ann Arbor, MI
  The Michigan Theater
  
  
  February 24-25, 2020
• Cedar Falls, IA
  Gallagher-Bluedorn PAC at Univ. of N. Iowa
  

  GALLAGHER-BLUEDORN PAC:SOLD OUT 
• February 26-27, 2020Overland Park, KS
  Yardley Hall at Johnson County Community College
  
  
  March 1-3,2020
• Austin, TX
  The Paramount Theatre
  
  
  March 5, 2020
• Texarkana, TX
  The Perot Theatre
• March 8-9, 2020Springfield, IL
  Sangamon Auditorium at University of Illinois
  
  
• March 12, 2020Irving, TX
  Irving Arts Center
  
  
• March 16-17, 2020Mesa, AZ
  Mesa Arts Center
  
  
• March 19-22, 2020Costa Mesa, CA
  Segerstrom Center for the Arts- Samueli Theater
  
  
  March 24-26, 2020
• Las Vegas, NV
  The Smith Center - Reynolds Hall
• March 29-30, 2020Malibu, CA
  Smothers Theater at Lisa Smith Wengler Center
  
  
  April 1-2, 2020
• Santa Rosa, CA
  Luther Burbank Center for the Arts
  
  
  April 7-May 24, 2020
• Seattle, WA
  Seattle Children's Theatre
  
  
  Head over 
  HERE
  to purchase tickets 
  NOW 
  before they're all gone!
  
  
  From what I hear, 
  there'll be MORE dates in MORE cities later.
  But you didn't hear that from me!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

I NEVER POST HERE NO MORE!

Not much happens around this blog anymore.

Not as much happens in my sketchbook as I'd like, either.

I mean,

this latest tome of sketchiness took 

OVER A YEAR

to complete!

Sure, I can make excuses that I'm sooper crazy busy on

Disney Junior's

MUPPET BABIES

and assorted other 

fun

(secret)

stuff.

But come on.

I gotta fill these books quicker.

This one started 

April 16, 2018

and finished in a production meeting on

May 11, 2019.

As always,

the cover had a fun sticker mash-up:

ANIMAL

and 

ONE PUNCH MAN!

The title page started kind of sharky:

While I'm doodling in meetings,

Super Director Guy Moore is usually peeking over my shoulder 

and drawing his own 

(better)

versions on my doodles.

For instance,

this is mine:

And this is his:

(along with some other awesome drawings)

Again,

mine...

And his:

Me:

Guy:

This was a series of pages that started as vines

 that grew across the

next bunch of pages:

And once done,

up it went into the vault of old sketchbooks!

Now let's see if I can finish the next one in less than a year!

Parker

Kelley

THE VILLAINOUS/KND CROSSOVER

Are you craving MORE Codename: Kids Next Door?
I mean, it's been a long time since a new episode came out.
And it'll probably be a REALLY REALLY  REALLY REEEEEEEEEALLY long time before one does. If EVER!
But in the meantime, there's the VILLAINOUS VILLAIN  ORIENTATION CODENAME: KIDS NEXT DOOR  EPISODE!

Whaaaaaaaaat?!

Allow me to explain.

There's a Cartoon Network

Latin America 

web series  

called

Villainous,

created by

the sooper powerful

Alan Ituriel.

It's a show about a group of inept

 sooper villains

called the

Black Hat Org and a lot of people

LOVE IT!

Well, it turns out that Alan and his team at

A.I. Animation Studios 

are big KND fans and wanted to do a crossover episode with them.

(their Villain orientation videos had already crossed with a 

number of Cartoon Network shows 

like Samurai Jack, Powerpuff Girls and Adventure Time.)

So they gave me a call to run some ideas by me and make sure 

what they were doing worked within the

KND universe.

They were all 

very smart,

very talented,

and

very big

KND nerds!

I couldn't help but be on board.

We had a great time talking

and afterwards I sent

them some drawings to say 

THANKS!

But enough of my blathering.

Why dontcha check out the episode?

Spoiler alert:

Hope you speak Spanish!

SKETCHBOOKS GET DONE FASTER THAN BLOG POSTS THESE DAYS

In case you haven't noticed,

I'm not posting here much.

It's all about the lunch bags these days.

But I'm still filling up 

sketchbooks

(albeit slooooowly)

This one started 

August 5th, 2017

with a

Sooper

Saiyan

Beaker

sticker

mash-up:

And the title page

features my 

Les Paul

for no other reason

than 

just because...

Here's the sketch that got it started:

And then there's the usual

nonsense:

Mighty 

voice actor

Eric Bauza

(voice of Fozzie)

needed to show that not only can do 

voices better than me...

he can 

DRAW

better than me:

My son Parker drew this while we were out one day.

So I stole it.

I had Jenny Slate 

(the voice of Miss Nanny)

sign the book after recording some songs with

sooper Muppet Babies composer

Andy Bean

I love swiping post-it doodles from around the office and

sticking them in a sketchbook:

That's a sooper director Guy Moore

post-it down there:

This was the magnet on all the doors 

on the Social Media Moms Disney Cruise 

I presented Muppet Babies at.

If I still did blog posts,

that would have been an 

AWESOME 

one:

A good portion of this sketchbook is taken up with 

double-page drawings I did at the two 

Muppet Babies Writing Summits 

we hosted.

For two days we sat with a variety of awesome writers and 

brainstormed story ideas for Muppet Babies.

SO FUN!

After the premiere of

Muppet Babies the crew went out for

food and drink so I passed the sketchbook around.

There's some 

Stan Ruiz,

Matt Danner,

Jina Noh,

and John Won

in there,

amongst others.

And then on 

April 11th, 2018 

this one was done:

And I'm off to the next sketchbook!

I hope you're still drawing in yours!