"The way that the center has kept the spirit of the (show) and the look of the puppets, it's delightful to have both the originals and also the live theater puppets there." Henson is the president of the Jim Henson Foundation, and the daughter of the late Jim Henson. solely dedicated to the art of puppetry." In a statement, the donor said "These were beloved characters of my childhood and I can think of no better place for them to 'retire' than in the trusted care of the Center for Puppetry Arts, the first and largest nonprofit organization in the U.S.
Instead, the puppets will be on display in the center's Worlds of Puppetry Museum, along with puppets from a 1970s Jim Henson production, "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas." This would have been the 10th anniversary of the "Rudolph" puppet show at the Center for Puppetry Arts, but the coronavirus intervened. When Kriess learned that a private individual gave the highest bid at his auction, he worried that he had shut the figures away, like the collectibles in "Toy Story 2." Schiavo said Rudolph and Santa need a little more conservation work, and that the center hasn't determined when the figures will go on display. "I feel like I've let the world down," he told the New York Times at the time. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer at Center for Puppetry Arts.
I just want to get them back to the public.
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The puppet styles employed in the center’s production of Rudolph are different from the TV classic, and include rod, body and blacklight puppets, often enhanced by projected moving images. Now they are on long-term loan to the Atlanta institution. That was before a detailed restoration that returned Rudolph’s red nose and half of Santa’s yak-hair mustache. That’s quite an uptick from when an “Antiques Roadshow” expert appraised them for $8,000 to $10,000 in 2005, after a family member of Barbara Adams, an employee of Rankin/Bass in the 1970s, retrieved them from the attic. In a sale held in Los Angeles by Profiles in History auction house late last year, the figures went for $368,000, far eclipsing their estimated value of $150,000 to $200,000. It’s the kind of star treatment one would expect for King Tut’s tomb, reflecting how beloved the puppets are - and perhaps also how valuable. The 6-inch-tall Rudolph and 11-inch-tall Santa, handmade creations of Japanese puppet-maker Ichiro Komuro, command the entire gallery, set off by a backdrop painted with snowy trees. Guests reach the display at the end of a hall of blue-white shimmering material that makes you feel like you’re strolling amid North Pole icebergs toward Something Very Important. The wee figures are given big-star treatment, displayed inside an acrylic vitrine in a gallery a level below the theater. Upping the nostalgia ante, the Center for Puppetry Arts also is presenting an exhibit of the Rudolph and Santa puppets from the 1964 Rankin/Bass Productions TV special, made in collaboration with animation wizard Tadahito Mochinaga and his MOM Film Studio in Tokyo. After taking last Christmas off due to the pandemic, “Rudolph” has returned to the puppetry center to light up the holidays for the 11th year with his bulbous red nose. “Rudolph” is to the Center for Puppetry Arts what “The Nutcracker” is for Atlanta Ballet and a thousand other dance companies: a provider of holiday jingle that bolsters the bottom line year-round. All of this and more plays a supporting role for the puppetry center’s main attraction, “ Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” the puppet show based on the 1964 stop-motion animated Christmas television special.
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