2025 Slowpoke! The True Story of a Tortoise & Hare
About the Show
This summer LPT’s Workforce Development program for technical theatre and our Young Conservatory program for student performers have combined creative forces to present the new musical Slowpoke! The True Story of a Tortoise & Hare by New Orleans native Ethan Andersen.
Join Tori the Tortoise, in this Appalachian retelling of Aesop’s “Tortoise & the Hare” as she stands up for her beloved town, Fable Farms, and races a big city hare with even bigger plans. In this musical for all ages, Tori and her friends, Ruben the Rooster and Bea the Bee, must learn to embrace what makes them unique and the importance of community.
Le Petit Theatre’s Education Program is supported by a grant from the New Orleans Theatre Association (NOTA), the Favrot-Van Horn Fund, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, the New Orleans Recreation and Culture Fund, The Rosemary B. and Brunswick G. Deutsch Foundation, the Ella West Freeman Foundation, and Entergy New Orleans.
Slowpoke! The True Story of a Tortoise and Hare is presented through special arrangement with Playhouse Jr. Licensing.
