Miss Carol's Program Choices

Puppet Variety Show (General Audience Show)

Marionette and puppet variety show
(plus your selection of one additional puppet)

30-45 minutes
45 minutes

Puppet Variety Show plus Interactive Activities

Children participating with finger puppets
Puppet show with magic
Puppet show with magic and finger puppets

45 minutes
45 minutes
45 minutes

Puppet Variety Show plus Musical Varieties

Puppet show w/ instruments
Puppet show, sing along w/guitar
Puppet show, sing along w/guitar & instruments

45 minutes
45 minutes
50 minutes

Puppet show, sing-a-long w/ guitar, instruments,
puppets and props

45-50 minutes

Puppet Variety Show plus Artistic Varieties*

Puppet show and face painting
Puppet show and puppet making

60-70 minutes
60 minutes

Puppet show and arts and crafts
(such as beading [jewelry, dolls or ornaments], creating magic wands, crowns, china painted tea cups [without firing] and making party favors, holiday or other crafts)

Times vary

*Miss Carol provides party favors with the approval of the party hostess or with parental supervision. Shows including arts and crafts with small objects such as puppet making must have parental supervision for children 3 years and younger.

*Special party wands are available for purchase: butterflys, unicorns, dolphins, fairies, and more (just ask).

Puppet Variety Shows for Seniors

Any of the above shows can be performed for mature audiences (such as seasonal or holiday puppet performances) at senior settings including convalescent, assisted living, dementia care, well elderly and retirement centers. Miss Carol is a Recreational Therapist and Adult Education Teacher with 17 years experience.

Time and Charges may vary for the following:

Mix and match program choices
Custom themes
Longer performances
Larger audiences
When additional time is required for setup, long distance travel, etc.
Where a PA system is necessary for audibility
Additional materials

 Act Description:

Appropriate for boys and girls, family and friends - marionettes are ageless and timeless appealing to the inner child in us all. The show material is geared toward children ages 1-11 but can be performed and adapted to the age level or approximate age level of the audience members ages 1-101. The shows are interactive variety shows suitable for entertainment during special events at parties, homes, pre-schools, elementary schools, libraries, daycares, company picnics, weddings, parks, malls, fairs, recreation and civic centers, and more. Miss Carol also features some finger and hand puppets, rod and miniature marionettes, and her special puppet aprons.

What Is Cabaret Puppetry?

The cabaret style of puppetry is a marionette variety show, where puppets approximately 3 feet tall perform a vast array of acts referred to as vignettes (short skits). Puppets sing, dance, play musical instruments, perform circus tricks such as juggling, do comedy, magical illusion, tell jokes, stories and more. They interact with the audience and usually do so without a stage enabling the puppets to be very life like and to walk right up to the audience members.

As the puppeteer pulls a few strings the marionettes captivate audiences and leave them spellbound.

Where Did This Style Come From?

Frank Paris, a famous puppeteer forgot to bring his stage one time, and performed the show without it. The audience did not miss the puppet theatre, in fact, it added to the effect of the puppets as in real cabaret with people performing variety acts instead of puppets, and the audience marveled at watching how the marionettes were performed. This is how cabaret marionette theatre came to be.

Miss Carol's Style

Miss Carol performs in a cabaret style, but with a puppet theatre, in an innovative way, allowing for much interaction between the puppets and the audience members. As the drapes open and close, another marionette appears, but in front of the stage. Most people enjoy a stage presence, yet they also enjoy the interaction between the puppets, the puppeteer, and the audience. Miss Carol presents puppet aprons, rod, hand and finger puppets and her marionettes featuring her original tales, parodies, songs and variety acts, also familiar childhood favorites from fairy tales, folklore, nursery rhymes, animals, from music, dance and more, from the world around us through puppetry.

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