He says he got the bug for acting in an eighth-grade play at St. He did a universal audition for scouts at a professional theater conference and got a callback for the part of Ryder. Gurniak says he got his role as Ryder in a more-traditional way. Matt Gurniak of Fogelsville to perform in Paw Patro9l Live at Allentown’s PPL Center She said she first became aware of the show while working as a nanny, and noticed how ubiquitous it was in stores - “on toothpaste, and on Gummies and on stuff like that.” “They play it on Nickelodeon like every hour of the day,” says Drees, a recent graduate of Kent State University’s musical theater program, for whom the role is her first post-grad work. The show, a creation of Canadian television, in 2014 had its theme song nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Song – Main Title. Getting the portrayals right is key to the show, which recreates the animated world of the series - which consistently has ranked as the highest-rated preschool TV program in the United States since it premiered on Nickelodeon in 2013. … And I’m actually not a 10-year-old boy,” the 25-year-old says with a laugh. It helps with ‘creating the world’ and the realistic-ness of the actual pups. “It’s definitely different, because I have to focus more on the pup than on the actor” playing it, he says. But his role as the 10-year-old Ryder has its own challenges, he says in a separate phone call. Gurniak has it easier - he retains his human form in the show. The two will perform in a cast of the seven pups who make up the PAW Patrol squad and four human roles in the show, “PAW Patrol Live! Race to the Rescue.” The story follows the heroic canines on the day of the Great Adventure Bay Race between Adventure Bay’s Mayor Goodway and Foggy Bottom’s Mayor Humdinger. Matt Gurniak, a Fogelsville native who portrays Ryder, the (human) boy leader of the PAW Patrol, and Merrie Drees, an Ohio native whose aunts live in the Lehigh Valley and who plays Skye, the aviator cockapoo who takes flight for the doggy do-gooders, say the roles are more demanding than almost any other they’ve had. The catchphrase for the massively popular Nickelodeon TV animated children’s show “PAW Patrol” is “no job is too big, no pup too small.”Īnd two actors with Lehigh Valley roots have discovered that this also applies to those who portray the show’s human and canine characters in the traveling stage version of the show, Paw Patrol Live!, which comes to Allentown’s PPL Center for five performances Saturday and Sunday.
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