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Audrey II grows from a seedling to a mammoth triffid in Little Shop of Horrors

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 23 Apr 2016
MAKING A MONSTER. Little Shop of Horrors isn't the biggest musical to play Melbourne in May but it easily presents the biggest puppet to have starred in a musical since King Kong ... The puppet-makers of Erth were called in to create the carnivorous piece of flora ... There's like an outrigger boom arm or fulcrum that's used to support the overall structure but other than that it's a marionette filled with air." ... ....

With clockwork timing, wild imagination, Kidd Pivot syncs grief and art

Edit The Dallas Morning News 22 Apr 2016
What if the voices in your head came to life? ... It’s tempting to label the resulting work experimental because of its unusual hybrid form ... The near-constant chatter, especially in the first act, was another cog in the clockwork timing between shadowy lighting, industrial score and start-and-stop choreography in which the dancers manipulated Young and one another like marionettes as he tried to cope and figure out how to move forward ... ....

Bernie’s time in the spotlight almost over

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 22 Apr 2016
Quite a few people make noises about leaving the country if the wrong person gets elected president. I’ve been making discreet inquiries in the vicinity of Kinsale, County Cork, myself — from whence my people emigrated after 1880 ... But, alas, no baseball, no Arkansas Razorbacks, and chilly, rainy weather ... OPINION.   ... Bluster, the grouchy marionette from the “Howdy Doody” show (1947-60) ... Sanders clumsily ducked the question ... ....

College Town. City Life. (University of Missouri - Kansas City)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
(Source. University of Missouri - Kansas City). Photo by Craig and Shelley Niesen. Each week, the University of Missouri-Kansas City offers an array of on-campus activities. It's nothing new. UMKC has a long legacy of hosting countless culturally enriching events. These activities are part of what give UMKC a vibrant campus life, and make UMKC an arts and culture powerhouse ... What ... Curnow ... 'Poupée valsante' from Marionettes; and Brahms, trans....

UC Riverside Orchestra Presents “Toy Stories” (University of California, Riverside)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Apr 2016
(Source. University of California, Riverside). Free family concert by UCR Orchestra on Sunday, April 24. By Mojgan Sherkat on April 18, 2016. UCR Orchestra. RIVERSIDE, Calif ... The concert features music about the magic of toys with dolls that dance, marionettes that march, and an orchestral tale of Winnie the Pooh and friends by Richard and Robert Sherman, Disney composers extraordinaire ... McKay also works for P.S ... Top of Page ... (noodl....

10 Unhealthy Obsessions That Turned Deadly

Edit ListVerse 17 Apr 2016
Obsession is an uncomfortable thing to consider. It reduces the human animal to little more than a fleshly marionette for a psychological puppet master. It also forces us to question just how far a person will go to sate an all-consuming mental hunger. 10 The Sneaker Sneak In 1979, David Dickson got court-martialed for a […]. The post 10 Unhealthy Obsessions That Turned Deadly appeared first on Listverse. > ... ....

Poet as 'village voice'

Edit Herald Tribune 17 Apr 2016
Prior to his being named the poet for President Barack Obama’s second inauguration in 2013, Richard Blanco had never given much thought to the idea of “occasion” poetry. Born in Spain to Cuban exile parents, an immigrant to the U.S ... Embassy in Cuba ... / Courtesy photo ... I don’t think we do that enough.” ... We head home ... always under one sky, our sky ... Jonathan Brenes, Sarasota Military Academy, for “Acceptance” and “A Marionette of the World” ... ....

String subversive: Steven Feld's documentary "J.C. Abbey: Ghana's Puppeteer"

Edit The Oklahoman 15 Apr 2016
Me alone, what can I do?” The famous song by Amanua, a vocalist who rose to prominence in the decades following Ghana’s 1957 independence from Britain, is “Walatu Walasa.” A new version features an intensely animated marionette performance by one of the African country’s treasures ... So Ataa Abbey came up with a series of puppets reflecting the nation’s identity.” Abbey’s collection includes both marionettes and rod puppets....

A guide to ‘Kimmy Schmidt’s’ musicals: ‘Alabama,’ ‘Gangly Orphan Jeff’ and more

Edit Zap2it 15 Apr 2016
“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” is back on Netflix, with the further adventures of the escaped-from-a-bunker title character (Ellie Kemper) and her band of lovable New York misfits. One of the best running gags of the first six episodes of Season 2 are the musicals Titus Andromedan (Tituss Burgess) and Lillian (Carol Kane) sing together in episode 5 ... Spoiler warning ... RELATED ... Sample lyrics ... ‘We Three Marionettes’ ... ....

Flow, Presence and Live Puppet Film -- Nufonia Must Fall

Edit Huffington Post 12 Apr 2016
Nufonia Must Fall, Seen at. Oz Arts Nashville. Production Credits. Kid Koala, K.K. Barrett. Animism and Puppetry. Have you ever watched a show with puppetry and been amazed by the way artist (puppeteer) merges with puppet? For example, when the puppet is small, you see this funneling of concentration and focus from large human to small object at the end of an arm ... With marionettes, you may see the puppeteer walking like the puppet ... K ... ....

Confederate monuments would be protected under altered OK bill

Edit The Oklahoman 11 Apr 2016
A bill to protect military monuments on public property has been altered in a way to preserve memorials to the Confederacy, a state senator says. Senate Bill 970 was approved by the Senate last year and remains alive this legislative session ... Sen ... “I can imagine no other practical purpose for it,” Holt said ... Lee. In southwest Oklahoma City, Lee Elementary School is named after the famous general, said Marionette Gibson, interim principal....

Confederate monuments would be protected under altered Oklahoma bill

Edit Stars and Stripes 11 Apr 2016
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (Tribune News Service) — A bill to protect military monuments on public property has been altered in a way to preserve memorials to the Confederacy, a state senator says. Senate Bill 970 was approved by the Senate last year and remains alive this legislative session ... Sen ... Lee. In southwest Oklahoma City, Lee Elementary School is named after the famous general, said Marionette Gibson, interim principal ... Rep ... Sen ...   ... ....

The Power of Art to Build Strong Youth and Heal Trauma

Edit Huffington Post 11 Apr 2016
Recently, I joined hundreds of arts advocates at Los Angeles City Hall as a guest speaker for ArtsDay, part of an annual celebration of Arts Week 2016 focused on continuing and expanding investment in the arts ... The .. 70% of students arrested or referred to police at school are Black or Latino ... Early birthdays were spent being enthralled by the ingenuity on display at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater ... We can and we must do more ... ....
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