From: CzechMarionettes-AT-aol.com
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 09:24:14 EDT
To: puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: [Puptcrit] Puppet Orchestra and other marionette musician stories




In a message dated 4/3/2005 8:28:04 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
Cahebay-AT-aol.com writes:

I'm  interested in any website or book that would cover the rod  puppet - 
Puppet
Orchestra
I'm designing one after the big band era , a  compete orchestra and  female
singer
A violinist , trumpet player  and clarinet player will each do  solo's as
well.
Each Rod Puppet  will be a height of 16 inches and each instrument  made to=20
size
Regards,
Mark



Mark,

What are you going to use the orchestra for?  Will it be manipulated  live or
mechanically? 

I've seen some mechanical ones, including a pretty funny even if  rudimentary
orchestr at Casa Bonita, a giant Mexican Restaurant with other  (more) tacky
entertainment in Denver (wonder if it still exists). 

Over the years, we've been using musician puppets ranging from a 8-inch 
Fezziwig rod marionette with an oversize guitar up to a string quintet composed 
of string marionettes operated by one person.  We are planning to add  some
more musicians for our "Bass Saxophone" production (based on Josef  Skvorecky
story, October 2005, Brooklyn, NY, Grand Army Plaza Memorial Arch:  young jazz
aficionados risk their lives playing swing in Nazi occupied  Czechoslovakia,
when "decadent judeo-negroid music" was banned).  Some of  the new musicians will
be marionettes with instruments, some will be  stylized: the instruments
themselves will be marionettes, or the musicians  bodies will be instruments. 
(What a convoluted sentence, I can't  understand it myself.)

But if someone out there has (or will have) a big band to showcase as part 
of our production, let us know.

V=C3=ADt Horej=C5=A1
Artistic Director

THE  CZECHOSLOVAK-AMERICAN MARIONETTE THEATRE
JOHANNES DOKCHTOR  FAUST

The Petrifying Puppet  Comedye
Starring 100-year old puppets
with
Michelle Beshaw, Jonathan  Cross, Yvette Edery, Goyal Ankit, V=C3=ADt Horejs &
Theresa Linnihan
Jan  Hus Playhouse
351 E 74th Street between 1st & 2nd Avenues
March  31-April 17
Thur-Sat, at 7:00 pm,   Sunday matinees at 5:00  pm
Tickets $18/$12 SmartTix  212-868-4444  _http://www.smarttix.com/_
(http://www.smarttix.com/)


czechmarionettes-AT-aol.com_  http://www.czechmarionettes.org/_
(http://www.czechmarionettes.org/)
212-777-3891
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