Monday, January 14, 2019

FLYING BIRD FROM "KISS ME KATE"


Posted by Chic Silber at 1/14/2019 01:14:00 AM

1 comments:

Chic Silber said...


This feathered bird "Penny Peck"

was flown as a marionette with

nearly invisible braided nylon

lines by a propman in a platform

about 42 feet above the Martin

Beck stage in a similar fashion

that was used to fly bats for

Dracula in that very same theater

many years before

As John Herriott kept repeating

"It's All Been Done Before"

I still have many of the bats

as well as a few platforms

Penny was named after a master

of props for the Music Fairs

where I was Technical Director

in the summer of 1960

14 January, 2019 01:49

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