Finally! Puppets!
I can now leave Atlanta knowing I've seen the best it has to offer. The Center for Puppetry Arts did me so right. If only it was in Canadia so i could woo them into hiring me.
I arrived at 11:30, just as a show was starting. It was called The Little Pirate Mermaid and was basically Disney's The Little Mermaid in puppets with more pirates and a less attractive sea-witch.
I absolutely adore seeing children's theatre with actual children in the audience. Their reactions are so vocal and innocent. There was a part near the beginning where Aerial/Molly had just fished the pirate captain out of the sea and she was all like "a kiss from a mermaid will bring him back to health". There was a giant "Eeewwwww" from the kids in the audience. Also when the puppeteers came out to take their bows, the audience went silent for a whole five seconds as the kids were figuring out who the G.D. these people in black were.
The bestest bit was when the pirates became "The Helpful Pirates" and helped a lost starfish by giving him a map. All in shadow puppetry. Those crazy pirates.
Anyway, so the pirate and mermaid got married and had a kid and lived happily ever after on land or sea, which ever they chose. Art imitating life. Oh wow, wouldn't it have been great if they showed the mermaid giving birth through puppetry?!
Even without the masterpiece that was The Little Pirate Mermaid, the museum would still have been all sorts of rad. They have a Jim Henson Exhibition on at the moment. Jim Mother-Funking Henson! There were Skesis' and Big Bird and the swedish chef and check this out:
Ernie is my homeboy
The permanent collection was fairly extensive as well and they have a workshop where they design/construct everything for their shows. I would love love love to work there but alas I am foreign.
Oh and as promised, here's this:
I took a whole bunch of footage at this event and will hopefully get to do something exponentially more interesting with it once its all converted. I should have some great stuff of the kids in my cabin playing musics. I contributed with mediocre bongoing that was hopefully drowned out by actual real life musicians.
2 comments:
BAH! damn this comment system! i just wrote great commentary about how good it would be to see puppet birth and use gak as afterbirth and placenta placenta and how it was funny in the clip to see nerdlingers bash nerlingers and get chased by other little nerdlingers then i said action=reaction biatcha it was all very funny but i couldnt be bothered now.
It's funny when you get angry so your comment still amuses me.
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