Puppets for sale!!!

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All of these puppets need loving and caring homes. Please come by the Joy Street Open Studios and adopt them. Nov.22nd and 23rd 12-6pm #52

See you there.

Puppets as decoration?

So check this out. I have branched my puppets into a whole new line of work. They now are not just fun tools for imagination but they are also now apparently a cool avant garde art up there with paintings. A designer approached me about having my puppets be a decoration in a house that she had designed. She said they were perfect for what she was doing. So I brought over a bunch of puppets for her and she picked out the colors she wanted and boom they are now artwork like an oil painting I love it. Hopefully this will catch on and we will all be making puppets for decoration as well as for use as puppets.Well go to this site and you see our puppets in one of the pictures. Let me know your thoughts.

http://www.edlundhaasdesign.com/37st...orizontal.html

News Article

Woo hoo we got some press. That is always fun.

Press article

Performance May 10th

We are once again performing at the Brookline Puppet Showplace Theater. This Saturday May10th there will be the last of the seasons Adult puppet slams till next fall. If you would like to come and see us perform this would be a great chance to do just that. I highly reccommend calling ahead due to the usual soldout performances.

If you would like to reserve tickets for the performance call 617 731 6400

Hope to see you all there

Somerville Open Studios(UPDATE)

Huge thank you to everyone who stopped by and said hello during open studios.  You all really made it an amazing weekend. Please feel free to drop us an email with any ideas or puppets you may need.  

If you would like to see more of us please stop by the adult puppet slam this saturday at 8pm. Be aware the shows sell out early so call ahead to reserve your tickets. If you want more info go the Brookline Puppet Showplace Theater website.  

Thanks again for the great weekend. We miss all the little puppets already but, we are sure they went to a good home.

Somerville Open Studios

May 3rd and 4th will be open studios in Somerville,MA. The hours of open studios are from noon to 6pm both days. So come on by to 82 Columbus Ave Somerville, MA and pick up our new DVD or grab a fabulous handmade puppet.

Hope to see you this weekend.

Debut DvD and Somerville Open Studios

Hey Everyone,

So we have finished our first DvD. It has 12 fun filled sketches for the adult that still wants to be a kid. I personally hand drew each label for the DvD. If you want to get a copy of the DvD keep reading for how to get a copy.

SOMERVILLE OPEN STUDIOS

May 3rd and 4th come on by and pick up a copy of our debut DvD only $10. There will also be tons of puppets for sale. Open studios runs from 12-6 both days. We are located at 82 Columbus Ave. Somerville, MA. For more info check out

www.somervilleopenstudios.org

Can't wait to meet you.

National Day of Puppetry

Saturday April 26th from 10-4 at the Brookline Puppet Showplace theater. Come on by and check it out.

For More info: www.bagop.org

News News News

Hey everyone,

Lots of stuff coming up in the next couple of weeks.  

We will be filming a T.V. Pilot over the next couple weekends. The script is amazing and it should be fantastic.

The national day of puppetry is coming up on April 26th.  Stop by the Puppet Showplace theater in Brookline and enjoy all the puppety goodness.

May 3rd and 4th will be open studios for us so if you are in the Somerville area between 12-6 check out our studio and buy a puppet or two.  

The last tidbit of news is that we are going to be releasing our very own dvd.  It will be available at open studios and then on the web. Keep reading the blog for updates about the dvd.

If you come to any of the events that we will be at please say hi. Stephen and I are really nice and would love to chat with you.

Puppet Slam

Hey Everyone,

Last night we performed in another puppet slam at the Brookline Puppet Showplace Theater. 

I love adult puppet slams it is a great opportunity for us to see other puppet performers as well as a chance to see puppeteers who usually only perform for kids and see their adult humor.

Here is a brief review of last night.

The show opened up with The Newport Cultural Enrichment Committee Showcase.  Performed by Margaret Moody,  Maggie Whalen, And Sparky Davis.  This was a very humorous piece with a great sense of humor in regards to censorship and Politically correctness.  

Sparky then performed a solo piece titled The Foolish Man.   A very comical tale of a little foolish man looking for riches but not aware of the riches under his nose.

Paul Vincent Davis performed Waltz Joke.  This was an amazing piece from Paul. He performed this piece of a ballerina dancing.  Paul's manipulation of the dancer was wonderful and very delightful and he had a great twist at the end of the piece. 

Kathleen Conroy Mukwashi doubled as both host and performer doing an excellent job on both she performed a  piece titled Untouchable.  She used shadow puppets to tell this emotional story of a person infected with aids.  She used many great effects to allow the viewer in a world of dreams and reality.

After  the intermission Puppet Master Jake started off the second half of the show with A Feminine Retelling of Judy Strikes Back.  This was a great contemporary twist on a Punch and Judy show Including a Devil, Alterna Girl, Punch and Judy, and one character who is too racy to mention here.

We then followed Jake with Mogre performing our version of the story of Cinderella.  We also were part of the peanut gallery assisting Kathleen with her host duties.  Prinderella went well and we got people laughing which we always strive to do. 

Margaret Moody performed her piece titled turning 50 which was a great little story talking about giving her puppets some exercise. 

The show closed out with Maggie Whalen with an excerpt from the Emperors New Clothes.  This was a fun piece with lots of audience participation. 

All in all it was a very successful night of puppetry to a sold out crowd the next show will be May 10th at 8pm hopefully we will see you at the next one.  Remember to buy your tickets early.

Crazy over here

Hello everyone,

It has been a little crazy for us.

Number one I got engaged so it has been crazy planning a wedding.

Number two we have been developing some new stuff with the puppets. You can now order puppets with blinking eyes, posable finger, or both.

Number three we are working on several production type things.

In any case we will hopefully be posting more regularly again.

New Production

We are currently working on a new comedy short skit. We have the script all done, I'm working on the scenery and puppets right now. If all goes to plan we should be able to perform this live at the next adult puppet slam in March.

We have also started working on our french accents for another possible project in the works.

Kids Expo Recap

The Kids Expo was a huge success.  We were really sad to see all the puppets leave us but we feel assured that they all went to good homes.  There was a nice article about the kids expo check it out here;  http://www.telegram.com/article/20080203/NEWS/802030406/1101

Kids Expo

Kids expo this Sat Feb 2nd come early before all the puppets disappear.

Get all the info here ---->http://www.mymetromama.com/pb_html/pb07312007210228.php

Hope to see ya there

Avenue Q and Rick Lyon

On Sunday Stephen and Myself got to attend an amazing lecture with the people who made Avenue Q. There was lots of great information throughout the lecture talking about the process and how happy they are that it has so much popularity. I always love stories of determination, that is what Avenue Q is they kept plugging their idea and kept pushing till the did it right. The true gem though was hearing all the stuff about the puppets. Rick spoke about the design process, his goals with the characters, color schemes, the different styles of puppeteering, etc..
It was also amazing to see him put on some of the puppets and bring them to life. Rick if you don't know also worked on Sesame Street for 15 years, built and performed puppets for Crank Yankers, as well as building and performing puppets for a tony award winning Broadway show.

After the lecture a truly amazing thing happened we had the opportunity to meet Rick Lyon and have a little conversation with him one on one. It was awesome he was really nice and gave us a lot of encouragement about what we are doing. He stressed that we should perform any time we get the chance whether it be for free, $5, or whatever. He also told us it is not about who you know its who knows you. This was an amazing conversation and experience for me. I'm sure I will be floating on cloud nine for a while because of this experience.

Performance review of slams

We had yet another busy weekend doing some live performances. Friday we went down to the Perishable Theater and performed Prinderella for everyone. But, were really happy to see all the other performers. We saw an amazing dancing peacock by Carole Simms D'agostino. Two performances by Sarah Frechette's marionettes, Seamos(who looked a lot like Evan O' Television) Emmy and Kirk performed War bride for everyone, and an amazing video piece as well.

Saturday we went to the Brookline Puppet Showplace for yet another amazing night of puppetry. We performed The Puppet Duel and everyone truly enjoyed it. We also loved seeing everyone's performances. Evan was there as well do his piece on the writers strike. Sarah performed with wally and Did an amazing shadow piece titled haunted projectile with the carrionettes. Paul Vincent Davis did his piece Battle of the Sexes. Julio Robles performed with his puppet Freddy. Puppet Jake was there with a wild tale about alternagirl. Dan Butterworth performed his new shadow piece. Z and Chad did there great toy theater puppet show about the history of jello. Emmy and Kirk performed once again as well as Carole's dancing peacock. There was so much to take in what a night. The place was sold out and everyone got one hell of a show for there buck. Next puppet slam is in March stay tuned for more info.

Busy and productive weekend

Stephen and myself were very busy this weekend. We worked very hard on making puppets this weekend and I'm very pleased with all the puppets we made.

Stephen installed and setup our puppet piece at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. It Looks great and will be on display till the end of the month.

We also attended our Boston Area Guild of Puppetry meeting or otherwise known as BAGOP on Sunday it was nice. The discussion was on quick and easy stages. Some of the highlights were Paul's hat stage, shadow box carry case, and a really cool toy theater with a 3-d cutout scenery. There was a show and tell section with some beautiful puppets, we showed off our very own Mogre the Ogre. There was some discussion of the day of puppetry coming up and the regional festival at maryland. I guess all the info on that is at www.puppetfest2008.org or so we were told over and over again.

Coming up very Soon BFaT at Providence Jan 18th 10 pm, Brookline puppet slam Jan 19th 8pm, and the kids expo in Worcester.

One busy month

Hey everyone,

So I wanted to post and let everyone know that it is one busy month here. But, don't worry that is a good thing.  Currently we have a piece in an art gallery at the Museum School of Fine Arts. We will be performing at the brookline puppet showplace theater on Jan 19th.  Last but not least we will be at the first annual kids expo in Worcester on Feb 2nd.  For lots of the month we will be prepping and performing and enjoying being puppeteers.  We will try and keep everyone up to date with what is going on.