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Bullied for being gay, teenager Takashi Arashiro wishes he could just besomebody else—but who could predict he’d morph into agiant-headed sci-fi creature?! Takashi’s tumultuous emotions become thecatalyst for personal and social exploration of the LGBTQ experience in thisquirky, profound manga from prolific BL author Kazuki Minamoto.

By the end of its five-year run on television, The Muppet Show had transformed its motley cast from fistfuls of felt to multi-media celebrities. Sophisticated and highly individuated, each of the Muppets embodied a conventional character type from classic television comedy. Kermit functioned as straight man to the majority of the show's jokes. Miss Piggy, the resident diva, evolved from first season chorus girl to full-fledged megastar. A Costello to Kermit's Abbot, Fozzie peddled his vaudevi...

This is the first full-length, English language study of Italian puppetry. Chapters describe Italy's rich puppet theater tradition through the end of the eighteenth century; the golden age of glove puppets, marionettes and pupi; commedia dell'arte and the puppet stage; the evolution of repertoires; music and spectacle; and changes during the twentieth century. Concluding chapters offer in-depth studies of two marionette companies, Turin's Lupi and Catania's Fratelli Napoli. Rich in photograph...

With tons of color photographs and a DVD with over 2 hours of hilarious instructional videos, this is the perfect how-to book for all levels of puppetry skill, from beginners to master artisans. With instructions on making hand puppets, turning stuffed animals into puppets, building mechanical puppets, finding accessories, performing, inventing voices, building stages, and more, this is the most comprehensive book of its kind. And with jokes and puppet humor throughout, it’s not just a handbook—...

"The most sensational, perpetual teenager in the world.” —Jim Henson "To know him was to love him, and we do." —Mark Hamill   Funny Boy: The Richard Hunt Biography tells the life story of a gifted performer whose gleeful irreverence, sharp wit and generous spirit inspired millions. Richard Hunt was one of the original main five performers in the Muppet troupe. He brought to life an impressive range of characters on The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock and various Muppet movies, everyone...

Instructions for constructing and costuming marionettes, stringing them for one or two hand control, manipulating them, and staging a show.

The entire north-west came to a standstill in July, 2014 as Liverpool was again left captivated by the return of the Giants in the thrilling 'Memories of August 1914' street-theatre spectacular. 800,000 visitors stood in awe when Royal de Luxe, the famous French theatre company, first brought their act to the city in 2012. But that was nothing compared to this summer as a million thrilled visitors flocked from all over the country to see Xolo the dog, the Little Girl Giant and the Grandmother...