‘20’s show is the cat’s pajamas

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“And possibly to see if it’s so wacked out that it could appeal to the 20 to 30 something group because they don’t know who she [Brice] is. They don’t know about that comedy.”

“It’s cute and it could be a family comedy which is what Fannie Brice was,” Wagner said. “She appealed to the entire family. Kids liked her because this was a kid actually being smarter than adults much like ‘Leave it to Beaver’ or Dennis the Menace.’”

Weston, who would only hint at her age by saying she was definitely a senior, describes Missy, her character in ‘Little Miss Know it All’ as “very precocious and a big know-it-all like kids are.”

“He had a good idea and thought this would be something we could work on together,” Weston said as her voice suddenly shifted into that of six-year-old Missy. “Because you see I talk like a little girl and sometimes I do voice overs and stuff so I thought it’d be a good idea.”

Wagner wrote the initial idea for the improv group Spring Chickens after hearing Weston.

“He [Wagner] then asked one of his friends if he could film it and we ended up putting it up on YouTube,” Weston said. “Jimmy does all the writing, I do all the music.”

Anthony Palmieri is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers and a long time friend of Wagner. When it came time to start filming the scripts he wrote, Wagner called in Palmieri to direct.

“He [Wagner] called to see what

I could do so we sat down and went over what it would cost, what we would need,” Palmieri said. “We pulled some favors from people we knew in the business and we put it together.”

All five episodes currently online were shot in a single day. After shooting was complete the editing process began and it was there that the project gained its final black and white treatment.

“When we sat down with this project we talked about how we wanted it visually to look and after sitting down and watching the cuts a couple of times it was decided to give it a classic look and to make it look different than your typical skits that have been put on film,” Palmieri said.

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