People Like to Make Puppets!

Opening weekend we had a matinee performance, and as an extra enticement to bring in audience, people who arrived early had the opportunity to make finger puppets. This proved so popular we’ve brought it back as a regular part of our Thursday night performances.

I find it amazing and amusing how much people enjoy making finger puppets! They get so into it. Gluing on eyes and crazy hair. And people have so much fun doing it. I get such a warm fuzzy from it, and it puts the audience in such a great mood for the show. We should do crafts before every show! They laugh, they get to know strangers making puppets next to them. I’d love to come up with a way to use them in the show, but people get very attached to their creations and I don’t know that they’d want to lend them to us for the show. We need to figure out a way for them to use them themselves from the audience.



Here’s what happened in last night’s show:

Overwhelmed
Everyone Dolores (Christian as puppet Shortcake) meets through Craigslist ends up being married. Then one day at a ballgame she meets a peanut salesman, Barry (Mandy as puppet Peanuts). He’s single, but he’s also a recovering smack addict who soon finds Dolores is his new addiction. Tempers flare and fists fly when Dolores’s married ex Kevin (Andy) wants back in her life. Who will Dolores choose? Well, let’s just say Dolores and Kevin both find happiness, just not with each other.