| Show ' - 'y 4F-f Johnsons display puppeteering art in weekly children's programs By Lori Buttars Tribune Staff Writer :t's easy to tell when a puppet has just the right look because the audi- ence will immediately recognize the character and cheer according to puppeteer Melody Johnson Melody and her husband Chris have been making audiences cheer with their handmade puppets for nearly eight years at the Pioneer Craft House 3271 S 5th East This summer the Johnsons and members of the Utah Guild of Puppeteers will be performing weekly children's programs at Craft House and a weeklong "Bookasaurus" presentation for the Salt Lake County Library System Since the Johnsons are both theater people (they met while attend ing drama classes at Brigham Young University) they enjoy doing the voice characterizations of different puppets "We have a good combination We each have several voices we can draw on but it is difficult for me to imitate a man's voice" she said "I can try but it just isn't quite the same" PMPFMIMMi FIREDWO 01) Jw 11 c7y) 9731t4 and TRAINS ®RANES ries" This year the library theme is centered on dinosaurs so the Johnsons will be drawing their plays from new books dealing with the prehistoric beasts "Unfortunately most of the books I've seen are about what dinosaurs ate or how big they were rather than fictional dinosaur characters" e as The Johnsons use well as scripts but they prefer to do the presentations live "You can have more control with a e show because if something and unusual happens you can ad-li- b cover for it whereas taped shows just go right on and everyone knows there was a mistake" she said Both types take a lot out of a puppeteer because it takes great concentration to stay with the tape Live shows allow for more audience par live-voic- 4t14 1100AT The Johnsons use both the traditional glove puppets with solid heads and movable arms as well as Muppet types which have movable mouths It is necessary to have both kinds of puppets she said because the movable hands allow the characters to carry things on stage while the Muppetcharacters allow the puppe-style teer to be more animated "We don't use stringed marionettes much because of the type of shows we do— traveling around they get too tangled up" she said Melody sees her productions all the way from beginning to end by writing short plays creating the pup pets and finally performing the shows before a live audience "Chris gives me a lot of ideas for the punch lines in the shows" she said "Most of the shows we do are variations of popular children's sto- live-voic- COMING TO AMERICA twatUrrnt 0 BULL DCRILOtt ! 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MVO 30 330 5 10 7 30 9 10 916 - s' '111!1111RIMEN''111111Wilill 'ILET (PG-1-3) BLVD WM POI it ' :: An adult movie that blazes across the ages so even kids will love it" — Gene Shalit TODAY SHOW Co-h- it nalimwal 415 ''— "A LANDMARK "THE GREAT OUTDOORS" (PG) 3900 SO WASATCH 77' I ' MITI RIIIMBEN Outdoors 9:45 1:20 Dragnet 11:35 6 of )hiSN U OPEN 8:15 4 ' ':': '''''ir''''''''''1::::':' l': y FAUZVUVIVI811 'HEATRE ISTARSHI I ALL2 '' A- -- 4 :' :::1 ' 44'1 4 12-1- 5 - t "DRAGNET" '" t Craft House complex Admission is free and everyone is invited to attend The "Bookasaurus" presentations and 18 They will will be July be given in conjunction with the county library's summer reading program and will be performed several times each day at different libraries in the county: July 12 11 am Whitmore Library 2197 E 70th South 1 pm Peterson Branch Library 9340 S 7th East 3 pm Draper Branch Library 12441 S 9th East July 13 11 am RV Tyler Branch Library 315 Wood Street 1 pm South Jordan Branch Library 10300 S Beckstead Lane 3 pm West Jordan Branch Library 1970 W 78th South July 14 11 am West Valley Branch Library 2080 W 3650 South 1 pm Kearns Branch Library 5350 S 4220 West 3 pm Magna Branch Library 8339 W 35th South July 15 1 pm CS Smith Branch Library 810 E 33rd South: 3 pm South Salt Lake Branch Library 2880 S State July 18 1 pm East Mill Creek Branch Library 2266 Evergreen Ave: 3 pm Holladay Branch Library 2150 E 45th South -- ---- 0 InIn plus 1 ': '''''': '' 1 Fer g Matinees 1215 2:30 4:45 1:00 3:00 5:00 '" THCIETIEMINNRIE12 i "MOONSTRUCK" (PG) 7:15 9:30 Sat & Mon (PG13) 7:00 9:30 Sol & Mon - ) sandcastle smnri $t50 1645 " PLUS (PG-0- 1 "BILOXI BLUES" ' 7:- ""'—' -- - j different puppet presentation will be given each Wednesday at 11:30 am on the front lawn of the Moon 7:10 Johnny 9:00 Stereo "MOONSTRUer (PG) ) i '' '''''' - ' A t N t ' ? "osioll -- UN SO a am ' :It' ''' "She's my control puppet I use her to talk to the audience directly" she said "I can do anything with her I'm Melody and she is Harmony I don't sing in person but I will sing and do most anything with a puppet on my arm" Moon 7:00 Emperof 9:00 'ErTriSllStryl '7''i ' 4'l 11111 1777-17- ‘ ''t p MOVIIE OF (PG) I NAL "MIDI'S SONG" i2 110'' ' next" she said THE MOST ' 9:10 Sot PAa0nses 1115RAVO N15 1988 1 Friday July --- -- uses her favorite puppet to get a young audience the show if they are dis- tracted 'ur vac INDUkuoulduoma (cane R POLTERGEIST ET KZ 14--: :j will do - '- - The Salt Lake Tribune "and you never know ticipation what they Melody Harmony back into 'w - 4 A — AAR 414 4 41 — A - 1 4 '4 " 'Al ' "" " 4 Alk AA 41 A 'A 'A A " 4" " A A AI" 4 d Ak Pk04kk Id A di 411411 AIL 0111AIL11 01 4A AAA AA A AA4 t |
