Here at Ventriloquist Central, we want to wish everyone a wonderful Holiday Season. So from Steve and me…Merry Christmas.
We also thought we would show a holiday video. Enjoy.
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Merry Christmas!!!
My partner Steve likes this video so much he said it should be a yearly tradition…..so Holiday music for you to enjoy.
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Merry Christmas everyone!!!
Dan
www.ventriloquistcentral.com
I thought I would have a little fun. Can anyone identify this family of ventriloquist figures?
Dan
www.ventriloquistcentral.com
We received this email to pass along to everyone:
Dear Friends in the puppet community,
I want to let you know about this special presentation of our mother’s
puppet performance of “The Nativity” that will be a part of a CBS special
on Christmas Eve. Heather Henson and I worked with Father Eric Andrews at Paulist Productions to remount this beautiful classic production as a tribute to Jane Henson.
Mom had created this production over the past five years together with
Heather and Sean Keohane in Orlando. Mom sculpted the heads for the first group of puppets which were then built and costumed by the New York
Workshop. In remounting the show, the workshop made a few important
additions, a bowing donkey and two shepherds among them. Vandy Wood
designed a beautiful light weight set with a blue back drop dyed by Jason
Weber. Everyone who worked on the show did a spectacular job.
A question I receive all the time is if it is ok to use a character made famous by someone else in their act. The answer to me is pretty clear. If you use the character and do the same act with this character then you are blatantly stealing and this is a no no.
You really have to make your own act and have your characters fit your act. The fact that they look like someone else’s character to me is OK as long as the act is different.
In the early days of Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney there quite a number of other ventriloquists that were using Frank Marshall Nosey figures which looked just like Jerry.
