Puppets!
Puppets!
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#0Puppets!
Posted: 1/4/06 at 2:14am
What shows would benefit from the use of puppets? I think any show with puppets is great, but what of shows that don’t normally use puppets? What shows would you like to see puppets used in?
I think Les Miserable would be so cute if Little Cosette and Gavroche were done with puppets, don’t you? The Thénardiers would be so much more entertaining if they used Punch and Judy puppets.
And the movie version of The Sound of Music used puppets so well that I think they should be used in every stage production, too, but not as they were in the film. I think it would be so cute to have puppets play all the children, nuns and Nazis!
Where would YOU like to see puppets replace actors?
PEACE.
Updated On: 1/4/06 at 02:14 AM
StageWhore
Broadway Star Joined: 11/11/05
#1re: Puppets!
Posted: 1/4/06 at 2:16am
I think we should have a puppet Elphaba. And maybe a Sweeney, too.
/are you serious?
"`I grow old... I grow old... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.` What does that mean, Mr. Marlowe?"
"Not a bloody thing. It just sounds good."
He smiled. "That is from the `Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.` Here's another one. `In the room women come and go/Talking of Michael Angelo.' Does that suggest anything to you, sir?"
"Yeah -- it suggests to me that the guy didn't know very much about women."
"My sentiments exactly, sir. Nonetheless I admire T. S. Eliot very much."
"Did you say, 'nonetheless'?"
- The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Updated On: 1/4/06 at 02:16 AM
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#2re: Puppets!
Posted: 1/4/06 at 2:26am
Maybe not an Elphaba, because she is the lead. But perhaps a puppet Bok...he is supposed to be a Munchkin, after all.
And not a Sweeney, but a puppet Tobias. That would be sooo cute.
PEACE.
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#3re: Puppets!
Posted: 1/4/06 at 2:32amGreat idea, Gay! You amaze me more and more every day.
CCM '10!
stage_door76
Broadway Star Joined: 1/18/05
#4re: Puppets!
Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:44am
No one answered StageWhore's question...
Are you serious, or what?
"...But Kungurtseva reels off multiple fouettes and the tape is stopped so she can take a bow. The Jester, an abomination introduced to Swan Lake in Soviet times, extorts applause from the audience. The cuts don't help the storytelling, the production is bare bones and they go for the '50s-style happy ending.
The audience cheers like mad at the end. It's the Russian ballet, after all..."
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
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