File puptcrit/puptcrit.0604, message 83


From: BiersBlackwood-AT-aol.com
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 11:50:29 EDT
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Largest American puppet collection?


The question about puppet collections and the answers, including references 
to props and set pieces, reminds me of the query about back drops from the 
other day.   I wonder if the person who was looking for someone to make a backdrop 
would be interested in making use of one that already exists, and may have 
been used in a puppet production many years, and perhaps decades, ago.   

And I wonder, too, if any collection or theatre that has such backdrops 
either on display or rolled up in storage would be interested in having the piece 
(or other set pieces) used or rented out to a new show.

I ask this because I personally like the idea of keeping theatrical elements 
in show as long as possible... I have some puppets that are well over a 
century old which I hope to use in a show sometime this year or next, and even my 
puppet booth is of a certain vintage, the wooden frame covered with still 
beautiful blue velvet roundings.   So I wonder if any of the collections mentioned 
might have a program, or consider the possibility, of loaning or renting out 
backdrops, frames, set pieces, puppets, etc., to other groups for an agreed upon 
term.

Just a thought... it would be interesting to hear what others think.

Sean K.
http://www.puppets.inuk.com/americas/usroundup.htm
 
In a message dated 4/8/06 11:13:57 AM, vanpuppet-AT-citcom.net writes:


> Has anyone suggested the Art Museum in Detroit.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Axtell" <steve-AT-axtell.com>
> To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org>
> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 10:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Largest American puppet collection?
> 
> 
> Also check the...Vent Haven Museum=A0 http://www.venthaven.com
> Ax
> 
> 

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