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HUDSON VAGABOND PUPPETS
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HUDSON VAGABOND PUPPETS, incorporated in 1980 as a not-for-profit company, creates larger-than-life puppetry and mask programs designed to fit into the school curriculum as well as to entertain children and their families. Our performers are professional dancers and actors. Clad in black, the puppeteers borrow from the traditional Japanese Bunraku style of puppetry, becoming mere shadows of the enormous figures they bring to life.
HVP tours nationally throughout the year and has performed in concert halls, theater, colleges, and major performing arts centers, including Brooklyn Academy of Music, Empire Center at the Egg, The Tilles Center for the Arts at C.W. Post College, The California Institute of Technology, Centre East Presents in Skokie, Illinois, the Luther Burbank Center, California, and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
Narrated ballets are a specialty of the company. Our puppets have danced with symphony orchestras including The Little Orchestra Society at Avery Fischer Hall, the Phoenix Arizona Symphony, the Wheeling W. VA Symphony (conducted by Rachel Warby), the St. Louis Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, and the United States Military Concert Band at Eisenhower Hall at West Point.
Mammoth Follies:
From 1984 to 1998, Mammoth Follies was performed for audiences all over the country, including the BAM Opera House. After a 7-year absence, the dinosaurs will once again storm the stage in a completely renovated production of this wildly popular and thoroughly educational production.
Mammoth Follies explores the wonders of evolution in an old-fashioned revue of original songs, witty jokes, and earth-smashing dances performed by giant dinosaur puppets. This program will dramatize historic and scientific facts (as well as some myths) about the great age of the dinosaur.
Enormous puppets populate the stage, including your host Willie Mammoth, Smiley the Saber-Toothed Tiger, Bessie the 27-foot long Apatosaurus, Tony and Trixie Triceratops, Terry the Pterodactyl, and the 11-foot tall T. Rex in a musical trip through pre-history.
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Three Billy Goats Gruff & Caps for Sale:
Our production involves creative extensions of the stories, along with call and response moments that involve audience members as storytellers, helping to drive the story forward.
Formerly listed as Monkey See, Monkey Do, this production has been restaged with a smaller cast, a new script, and songs to follow the story of the familiar children's book. It is designed for elementary school stages and theaters of up to 1000 seats. With a cast of just three performers this is an affordable alternative to our larger theatrical productions.
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Butterfly: the Story of a Life Cycle:
Take a microscopic look at the insect world on the big stage! From her tiny egg we will follow the Monarch Butterfly as she grows through her caterpillar state and makes the amazing metamorphosis in the chrysalis and her incredible 1,500 mile journey to Mexico. With her insect companions she will learn about her symbiotic relationship with Milkweed. She depends on it for food, home, and her unique form of defense against predators.
The Snow Queen:
This production has appeared in major performing arts centers across the country, including: The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Texas A&M, The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., The New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, The Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, and The Center East Performing Arts Center in Skokie, IL.
Jemima Puddle-Duck & The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit:
Giant puppets dance and act in narrated ballets to these two beloved Beatrix Potter stories with music by William Walton. This full-scale theatrical production is flexible enough to fit into an elementary school stage, using masks, costumes, and rod puppets up to 8 feet tall.
These puppets have danced in major performing arts centers around the country including: Arts Connection in New York City; Cal Tech in Pasedena, CA; Calvin Simmons Theater in Oakland, CA; Center East in Skokie, IL; Eisenhower Hall in West Point, NY; The Folly Theater in Kansas City, MO; and Kingsboro Community College in Brooklyn, NY.
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Guess Who Signed the Constitution?:
Find out in an original puppet musical about the great constitutional debates. Through the eyes of a little boy named Adam and his Grandfather, we see the portraits of the past come to life and watch Adam's grandmother throw in a few revolutionary ideas of her own.
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