The Amazing Pebbles.....AKA "Toto"!
If you haven't heard by now, Kaila's dog Pebbles is "Toto" in The Prairie Skies
Wizard of Oz, being performed for its final week. The history behind her achieving this role is not clear to me, but what I do know is she filled a different dogs paws that struggled with the role, just days before the production began. As you know Zoom Zoom Groom's staff is diverse, with many of them having great knowledge of dog training and conditioning. What we are all perplexed about is the speed in which Pebbles not only learned her role, but does it brilliantly! The most interesting part is she was trained by the actors/ actresses themselves. We want them to come give us a training in-service! What can possibly take weeks or months to train, these individuals did in just a few days. Pebbles is reading hand signals and cues, which is no small feat. If you have seen the musical, you will observe her coming and going off stage when required, stealing a hot dog from the fortune teller on cue, barking at the wizard and more! It's flabbergasting what she does, and she loves it! Everyday Pebbles is picked up by from Zoom Zoom Groom at 4:00 by a cast member, and she is racing out the door. When she arrives at the venue, she dashes out of the car and onto the stage. She takes a few seconds to look at the "would be crowd", and darts off to behind the scenes in the back. She is thriving on the stardom!
My son, Zane has the role of the Tin Man (Hickory). I thought I would take the staff to see the show, after all there were two important individuals in it.....Zane and Pebbles. Needless to say, as much as they loved Zane`s performance, the focus was on Pebbles.
Zane jokes that Pebbles has taken all of the performers lime light. A review was written in a local paper and it goes like this.....
`Even
if the show ended up being a complete disaster and everything had gone
inexplicably but entirely wrong, it would have been saved by Pebbles the
dog who played Toto. I’m not much on small dogs, but every time she
came on stage, I had to resist running on stage and stealing that dog
for being so damn cute. She didn’t even do anything! She had no lines
and was either carried, led, or told where to go on stage, and she still
managed to be a star simply because she was that adorable.
We are so extremely proud of both Tin Man and Toto. If you haven`t seen the musical, it`s the perfect Saskatchewan event. It`s in the country, and outside.... Amazing! The following is a link to Prairie Skies website. Before the week is over my husband and I will be back for our fourth time to see the Wizard- mainly to see Pebbles (LOL)- just kidding Zane.....you too! Love ya, big guy!
We`re off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz!!!!!!!
http://www.prairieskiessk.com
