Monday, November 21, 2011
Play Trailers Run, run 'Rudolph' at Center for Puppetry Arts
Posted by Curt Holman @Curt_Holman on Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:10 PM
The Center for Puppetry Arts has posted a new trailer for its remount of last year's production of Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer. I almost called it the Center's annual production, just assuming that it's going to be a holiday show in perpetuity. Rudolph runs through Dec. 31 and as I wrote about last year's premiere:
Puppet designer and builder Jason von Hinezmeyer watched the TV special 200 times, occasionally frame by frame, to ensure the puppets' physical details exactly matched up with their stop-motion counterparts. The main characters — Rudolph, Hermey the dental-obsessed elf, the "Skinny Santa" — look exactly like you remember them. The production obsessively retains nearly every character, including all of the misfit toys with singing parts, the talking elf with the black-framed glasses, and even props like the gold nugget from the "Silver and Gold" number are dead ringers. The Center even replicates the teleplay's structure, beginning with the newspaper headlines warning about the bad weather. Grown-ups can tell where the commercial breaks used to be — I was fully prepared for an interlude with Santa riding the Norelco razor.
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