Wishing on stars couldn’t have made the Ballet Slipper’s final performance of the classic story “Pinocchio” any more colorful or fun than what the company’s talented ballerinas performed.

On Sunday night, The Ballet Slipper of Oak Harbor presented the last of its three performances of the company’s spring ballet, “Pinocchio.”

With approximately 56 dancers, 25 scenes and two intermissions, the ballet was the culmination of a years worth of choreography, rehearsals, costume making and practices.

Longtime Oak Harbor resident Diane Geragotelis, who opened the Ballet Slipper 15 years ago, said she started planning for Pinocchio in the spring of 2004.

“I wanted to do a new full-length ballet,” she said. “And have ballet dancers creating the story line.”

The production had ballerinas dance the roles of the story’s main characters. Olivia Peterschmidt danced the part of Pinocchio, the wooden puppet who yearned to become a real boy. Megan Murphy danced the part of Pinocchio’s father, the woodcarver Gepetto. Madison Clark transformed herself into the feline Figaro.

Jacey Geragotelis gracefully danced the part of the beautiful Blue Fairy and performed a duet with her cavalier Scott Jackson. Alison Wolfgang and Mary Carr gave the fiendish Fox and Cat their graceful and deviously smooth movements; Lauryn Wilson leapt into the role of the conscientious Jiminy Cricket; and Mark Boberg became the gypsy showman Stromboli.

Aside from Boberg, Geragotelis said she has had many of her dancers since they were 4-years-old.

“I was proud of them,” she said. “They did a terrific job.”

The ballet also included a host of ballerinas, both young and old, as clocks, baby crickets, townspeople, puppets, circus animals, Pleasure Island runaways, tropical fish, mermaids and seahorses.

“I like the whole piece of the ballet — every single part, even the finale,” said 5-year-old Bella Garden, who danced as a mermaid in the ballet.

With 38 years of ballet experience, Geragotelis chooses the music, choreographs the dances and creates the majority of costumes and props for her company’s productions.

“I do all the sewing of the costumes, because I know in my brain exactly what I want,” she said.

And this year’s performance showed that Geragotelis had bright colors and creative costumes on her mind. From seahorses to puppets, workshops to a whale’s belly, this ballet had it all.

“I really liked it,” said 9-year-old Haley Garden, one of the ballet’s mermaids. “I liked the Blue Fairy where the guy picked her up.”

When asked if she wanted to continue dancing with the Ballet Slipper’s ballet company, Haley gave a decisive answer.

“Yeah, I think I will,” she said.