Shipping Puppets

[mike short]

Stacyrebecca? Did you also post on the IRC and I met you in NY like... a year and a half ago? After the Comic Book show at Gotham? How are you doing?

 

[staceyrebecca]

That's me!

Hi mike!

Things are going along pretty okay. A bump or two here, but all is good.

I actually came back to NY last summer for DCM, but didn't have time to do a whole lot of..um...anything besides improv.

What brings you to the puppetry forums?

 

[mike short]

I'm trying to promote a new improv show of mine. Go over to this thread:

http://forum.muppetcentral.com/showthread.php?t=40906

It's not with sock puppets. Maybe a mod proofread my thread title and removed an important exclamation point? Either way, we'll be improvising a longform show with puppets.

 

[staceyrebecca]

We do longform with puppets out here. Used to do it for years with Furgeson at the festival, but now its just a few of us with Die Puppet Die. It's good fun.

Are you doing it a-la Ave Q. style of performing, or are you guys using a stage with a traditional playboard/scrim?

 

[mike short]

Avenue Q style. I recently did a show where I had to play Kermit the Frog and I discovered that I was too tall and inflexible to hide behind a small partition. Soooooo feel free to share any thoughts about puppet improv with me, I'd love a few pointers.

 

[staceyrebecca]

wasn't Jim Henson like amazingly tall & lanky?

When we do anything with a stage, its always done with a stage that we can stand up behind, with a scrim between our faces & the puppets & our arms out in front of us. If you look at it from the side, it looks like the lower-case letter h.

if it were an equation, it would look like this:

Sh.....

S=Stacey h=Stage ....=audience (OK for some reason I now think I'm awesome)