3 Billy Goats Gruff Puppet Show
Sun, Aug 03
|Nordia House & Livestream
Join us for a fun and meaningful adaptation of the traditional tale Three Billy Goats Gruff presented by Penny’s Puppets.
Time & Location
Aug 03, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Nordia House & Livestream, 8800 SW Oleson Rd, Portland, OR 97223, USA
About
Cost
Nordic Northwest Members: $12
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General Admission: $17
All Youths, 12 and under: $8.50
Arts for All: $5
Doors open at 2:30 pm
Event Description
This adaptation of the traditional tale will be a favorite for all ages. The mean and friendless Tully the troll guards a bridge that crosses to a yummy beautiful green pasture. The hungry Billy goats would like to cross it and eat what is on the other side. Help them find a solution. Sing, dance and cheer on the three clever Billy goats as they try to go across the bridge and outsmart the Bulling troll. A mini- musical original by Penny’s Puppet Productions. *This is a good anti- bully show.
"The Three Billy Goats Gruff" (Norwegian: De tre bukkene Bruse) is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their Norske Folkeeventyr, first published between 1841 and 1844. It has an Aarne-Thompson type of 122E. The first version of the story in English appeared in George Webbe Dasent's translation of some of the Norske Folkeeventyr, published as Popular Tales from the Norse in 1859. The heroes of the tale are three male goats who need to outsmart a ravenous troll to cross the bridge to their feeding ground.
About the Penny’s Puppets
Since 2002 Penny's Puppets has been making the world a better place, one puppet show at a time.
Every kid has a big dream and Penny’s was to be a puppeteer. Ever since she caught a glimpse of the Muppets at the age of 3, Penny was hooked. But it wasn’t until after she had earned her Teaching Certificate in Elementary Education with an emphasis in Early Childhood and had finished her Masters of Curriculum and Instruction at Portland State University, that Penny finally followed her dream and became a full time puppeteer and storyteller. Penny’s Master’s Thesis was “Teaching with Puppets in the Classroom.” In 2002, Penny started Penny’s Puppet Productions. Penny has created over 50 original story-musicals that feature dozens of puppets with their own unique personalities and voices. Penny performs in pre-K and K-3 classrooms, is a favorite at local libraries, and is a regular at community festivals throughout the Pacific Northwest. She also appears as an “Artist in Healthcare” at Emanuel Children’s Hospital. In the Fall of 2012 Penny had the pleasure of touring Colombia, South America on a puppet tour and performed over 60 shows in just 30 days for children ranging in age from 4-17 years old. In 2012 she did a similar tour in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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