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Hi, I found renting a huge benefit. We talked about making it but the time it would take in the situation I was in would have been the only thing done and we would have had no set lol. So we spent the money and rented from a company called swazzle.com. Great puppets comes with all of them the deliver to you by freight. I would totally use them again.

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Dan Mellitz
Technical Director
St Andrews School
Barrington, RI
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-15-2017 23:24
From: James Fry
Subject: Audrey II puppets

Hi all,

I will be directing little shop of horrors this fall and wanted to see if anyone's had any leads and/or creative ideas for doing the plant. Any help would be appreciated. 

Thank you. 

Jim

Malvern Preparatory School

418 South Warren Avenue | Malvern, PA 19355

An Independent, Augustinian, Catholic School

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We made ours and they are available for sale. Otherwise, I can talk to you about how we built ours.

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Victoria Kesling Councill
Chapter Director - VA EdTA/ Virginia Thespians
Theatre Director- Fine & Performing Arts Department NKHS
Artistic Director - NKHS Trojan Theatre
Artistic Director - Kent England Exchange Production
Virginia Commonwealth University BFA Theatre Education, BFA Art Education '08
University of Houston - MA Theatre '16

"Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art." - Konstantin Stanislavski
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-16-2017 07:29
From: Dan Mellitz
Subject: Audrey II puppets

Hi, I found renting a huge benefit. We talked about making it but the time it would take in the situation I was in would have been the only thing done and we would have had no set lol. So we spent the money and rented from a company called swazzle.com. Great puppets comes with all of them the deliver to you by freight. I would totally use them again.

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Dan Mellitz
Technical Director
St Andrews School
Barrington, RI

Original Message:
Sent: 08-15-2017 23:24
From: James Fry
Subject: Audrey II puppets

Hi all,

I will be directing little shop of horrors this fall and wanted to see if anyone's had any leads and/or creative ideas for doing the plant. Any help would be appreciated. 

Thank you. 

Jim

Malvern Preparatory School

418 South Warren Avenue | Malvern, PA 19355

An Independent, Augustinian, Catholic School

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How much for the Audrey ll

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Tori Scoles
Theatre Director
Beaverton OR
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-16-2017 07:38
From: Victoria Kesling Councill
Subject: Audrey II puppets

We made ours and they are available for sale. Otherwise, I can talk to you about how we built ours.

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Victoria Kesling Councill
Chapter Director - VA EdTA/ Virginia Thespians
Theatre Director- Fine & Performing Arts Department NKHS
Artistic Director - NKHS Trojan Theatre
Artistic Director - Kent England Exchange Production
Virginia Commonwealth University BFA Theatre Education, BFA Art Education '08
University of Houston - MA Theatre '16

"Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art." - Konstantin Stanislavski

Original Message:
Sent: 08-16-2017 07:29
From: Dan Mellitz
Subject: Audrey II puppets

Hi, I found renting a huge benefit. We talked about making it but the time it would take in the situation I was in would have been the only thing done and we would have had no set lol. So we spent the money and rented from a company called swazzle.com. Great puppets comes with all of them the deliver to you by freight. I would totally use them again.

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Dan Mellitz
Technical Director
St Andrews School
Barrington, RI

Original Message:
Sent: 08-15-2017 23:24
From: James Fry
Subject: Audrey II puppets

Hi all,

I will be directing little shop of horrors this fall and wanted to see if anyone's had any leads and/or creative ideas for doing the plant. Any help would be appreciated. 

Thank you. 

Jim

Malvern Preparatory School

418 South Warren Avenue | Malvern, PA 19355

An Independent, Augustinian, Catholic School

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James,

We built our own and they have been rented out a couple of times. If you would like to rent, please contact me, otherwise, I would be more than happy to advise on a build for you. I also have the dentist's chair.

Yours in Art,

Jason


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Jason Robert LeClair, MA
Artist/Arts Educator
Director, Thespian Troupe 7444
Beacon Charter High School for the Arts
Woonsocket, RI
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-15-2017 23:24
From: James Fry
Subject: Audrey II puppets

Hi all,

I will be directing little shop of horrors this fall and wanted to see if anyone's had any leads and/or creative ideas for doing the plant. Any help would be appreciated. 

Thank you. 

Jim

Malvern Preparatory School

418 South Warren Avenue | Malvern, PA 19355

An Independent, Augustinian, Catholic School

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I did a summer workshop production of the show - and didn't use a puppet at all - we had a short timeline, and I always like trying something different.

The first scene with Audrey II - (I also had two young men playing the role) - was my first actor behind the counter and only his head could be seen - and he had a little flower pot collar. He had green plant makeup on his face and we made little plant hats.

We had a giant pot we built that opened from the back and was on wheels. The next time we see the plant - it was the two guys - costumed the same - in the big pot. Then - as each victim was killed - they were pulled into the pot and put on a plant hat (out of audience site - and the next scene they popped up and became part of the plant. In the end - we had the two Audrey IIs - the dentist, Mushnik, Audrey and Seymore all in the planter.

in the finale, all of the actors - the urchins, the chorus - put the plant hats on and came out into the audience. Since it was part of my summer children's theatre, we played up the campiness instead of the creepiness. 

I'm looking for the big plant photos now - but here's the little plant and a photo of us building our giant flower pot.









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Glenn Morehouse Olson
Theater Teacher, Director
St. Francis MN
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-15-2017 23:24
From: James Fry
Subject: Audrey II puppets

Hi all,

I will be directing little shop of horrors this fall and wanted to see if anyone's had any leads and/or creative ideas for doing the plant. Any help would be appreciated. 

Thank you. 

Jim

Malvern Preparatory School

418 South Warren Avenue | Malvern, PA 19355

An Independent, Augustinian, Catholic School

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