Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 08:15:12 -0500
From: Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] defining some theatre


> So I doubt there is any official name.
 > Halfway snarky answer: Call Julie Taymore and ask her.<

Very nice Christo,  Just what I was trying to fish up. Or perhaps "
Theatre artteest doing ovrray avec Pupee"



On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Christopher Hudert
<heyhoot-AT-mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 3, 2009, at 8:03 PM, Brad Shur wrote:
>
>> I think it's too much of a rarity for a name.
>> I can only think of two Broadway productions and both are really
>> puppet/meat-actor hybrids.
>  Really Brad? Which two are the only ones that count? At one point very
> recently there were at least 4 at the same time. Let's see if I can
> recall.
>   Lion King
>   Avenue Q
>   Little Shop (Technically off B'way, but NYC and certainly mainstream
> theater)
>   Beauty & the Beast (actually I don't think that was it, and that is
> only sort of puppets, more costume character - though that is a form of
> puppetry)
>    - - I can't recall the 4th off the top of my head.
>   Quite a few other shows have incorporated puppets too, but I think
> you are really referring to "all puppet" shows. I'm pretty sure that's
> what "Puppet Arts" was asking about.
>
>> So I doubt there is any official name.
>   Halfway snarky answer: Call Julie Taymore and ask her.
>   Seriously though, "PuppetArts" (hope you get a name soon to sign your
> posts with), why not either call it what it is and be proud of it, or
> just call it Theater and in the description say Full Stage shows that
> use X types of puppets, masks, whatever...
>
>   And you shouldn't have been surprised that you got an "immature"
> answer when your question was phrased in a rather immature and slightly
> offensive manner that came across as looking down your nose on those
> who are proudly "Ma & Pa." It's not so much what you said as how you
> said it.  To ask a bunch of people how to tell others that you are
> better than they are deserved at least one "immature" answer. You're
> lucky that's all you got.
>
> Christopher
>
>
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