Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:04:52 -0500
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] 12 Best Puppets Ever?


mjm wrote:

>My personal top 12 Puppets
>
>1. Mr. Riley, my 1st sock puppet (made by my mother)
>
>2. Bulbous, 1st 16' giant, much too heavy, puppet we made for our 
>summer outdoor parades & shows
>
>3. Mr. Lunch (our variation on Punch, Mr. Lunch beat the heck out of 
>junk food puppets for our "Lunch & Foodie" puppet show)
>
>4. Mr. Twinkie (one of the villains/victims from "Lunch & Foodie", who 
>when whacked by Mr. Lunch's bat/spoon shot white filling =96 actually 
>shaving cream from a pressurized can inside the puppet=96 to the howling 
>delight of young and old audience members)
>
>5. Punch the Red (The San Francisco Mime Troupe creation)
>
>6. Mother Earth & Dr. Plutonium =96tie=96 (from our environmental show "Dr. 
>Plutonium's Energy Circus!")
>
>7. Any and all of BREAD & PUPPET THEATER'S puppets.
>
>8. The giant puppets in Provisional Theatre's "Voice of the People"
>
>9. Ken Feit's tiny origami/gum wrapper puppet
>
>10. Paul Zaloom's object puppets
>
>11. The grotesque muppets that appeared on the early Saturday Night 
>Live TV show (like Scred and Ploobis)
>
>12. Unadorned left & right hands having a conversation before a live 
>audience.
>
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So glad to see Ken Feit's name come up again.  He was a remarkable young 
man  and like Jim we lost him far too soon.    Mary Aimee Sydnor
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