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The Blue Mountain Puppet Opera Set.
First year in-progress production rehearsal. One Pot, One Pan, One Cat? What! Gifts from the King! Silly Cat, Chasing Mice is Better Than That. Father Look! Here comes the Sassy Kitten Again! My King, For Your Pleasure, Ebe Sends an Elk Ebe? How About the King's Robe? Look Daughters! Cat Approaching on Bear! Eat It! Not On Your Life! Oh Shepherd Blue, Which Way to Blue Mountain? Cowhereder There, Which way to Blue Mountain? Jump and Spring my Horses Fair! They Belong to Ebe Ashenpeter or Else! Scratch, Scratch, Scratch! Page, Question That Horseman There. What Again! Ebe Ashenpeter's? Goblins of Blue Mountain, Listen-Up! I Dare You To Enter, You Old Troll! Dash It All, I'm a Gonner! My Work is Done, Ebe You Are King! Transformed Spirit Beings? Welcome To Blue Mountain, Oh King! The Voices of Our Characters Meow! Can I Sing This Too?
Ceiling hangings to simulate vegitation. On right shadow puppet theater. To left of the shadow theater, looking again like vegitation, all hand-dyed silk and gauze, is the King's castle and also the Blue Mountain castle. Further left is found two tall gold gates covered with hand-dyed green silk to begin with. Far left, covered with hand-dyed green silk, is a cottage. Troll's head and hands are needled-felted wool. Costume is rayon, hand-dyed cotton gauze and hand-dyed silk. Troll leaves Blue Mountain in the evening. Ebe received a cat as his inheritence from his mother. the other brothers, a pot and pan. Their cottage with table, a chair and two stools. Puppets are 30" tall of hand-dyed silk, knitted sweaters, faces are put on with color pencil on silk. Cat is totally needle-felted wool, weighted with rocks with a simple cross bar. Cat is looking for a useful gift to bring to the King from Ebe, his master. Shadow cat has forced the shadow Reindeer to go with him to the King We see the King on his throne with his two daughters. Cat returns to Ebe in the cottage with a gold pouch filled with gifts for the gift of a Raindeer. This time she rides on elk antlers. Rye bread found in cubbard. Made of paper-mache over styrafoam strung with a wire. Shepherd with flute, knitted wool hat and needled-felted coat over hand-dyed silk. Hat and coat of soft leather pelts over hand-dyed silk, wool beard and he is holding knitting needles knitting a neckpiece for the cow with a cowbell. Horseman with blue leather hat, gold leather and wool coat over hand-dyed silk holding a leather whip. Cat with rye bread threatens Horseman totell the King all the Horses belong to his master, Ebe. Page has velvet hat with feather and coat over hand-dyed silk. Head and hands of Goblins are needle-felted wool, silk hand-dyed garments and silver chains have chained a Spirit- Being to each Goblin's back. The Castle is Blue and Gold but we were in rehearsal and did not take the time to change the set. Golden gates at the entrence to Blue Mountain Castle. Gates are plywood, sprayed gold. The chained Spirit Beings have been released and come into their power. Ebe meets the White Prince, the transformed cat. King gives his crown to the young King of Blue Mountain Pianist, Music Director, 5 (of 7) readers who sang as well. The voice of the cat. Another reader at the end with one of the sound instruments, the other reader is missing from the picture.
The Blue Mountain Puppet Opera Set.
First year in-progress production rehearsal.
Ceiling hangings to simulate vegitation. On right shadow puppet theater. To left of the shadow theater, looking again like vegitation, all hand-dyed silk and gauze, is the King's castle and also the Blue Mountain castle. Further left is found two tall gold gates covered with hand-dyed green silk to begin with. Far left, covered with hand-dyed green silk, is a cottage.
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