![]() The staff on site was so friendly and passionate about their collections. We were lucky enough to visit on a very quiet weekday where we had the displays mostly to ourselves. ![]() This was seriously one of the coolest museum experiences we’ve ever had. We’ve never visited the Center for Puppetry Arts before so I had no idea what to expect from our visit. IMPORTANT NOTE: This was a temporary exhibition that, as of 2019, is no longer on display, but there are still Labyrinth things to see at the Center for Puppetry Arts! I’m not sure who was more excited about this but I think it might just be the tallest of our group. When I heard that the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta was hosting a special exhibit of the Labyrinth creatures, I had to schedule a girls’ getaway for the kids and me to go and visit. Last summer, my sister and I introduced the movie to my little girls during a “Girls’ Movie Night” and they have become equally obsessed with Sarah, Hoggle, Ludo, Sir Didymus and crew. I love all things Muppets and Sesame Street but Jim Henson’s Labyrinth is one of my very favorite childhood movie memories. I have always been an enormous Jim Henson fan. NOTE: This was a temporary exhibit that is no longer on full display but you can still find some Labyrinth objects as part of the museum’s collection. Visit Jim Henson’s amazing puppets from the Labyrinth movie staring David Bowie at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta. Tickets and more information are available at. 8, and their annual production of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” is on stage through Dec. The Center for Puppetry Arts’ special museum exhibition “Festive Features” is on view through Jan. You know, it’s definitely about misfits finding their place and fitting in, and I think that speaks a lot to a lot of people, as far as just people finding their place and being different and figuring out how they fit in the world,” said Fritz. ![]() I also think there’s something in the story. You know, at this point, several generations have been raised watching the show as kids, so I think to be able to see it performed live is just really exciting. “There really is this intergenerational aspect to it. On the enduring magic of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer:” So he was involved in things like Puppeteers of America and these larger international festivals and was really, really a great supporter… It was a big deal for us to get it, but at the same time, I think we were also a really natural home as the largest nonprofit in the U.S. And I think something that people don’t know about Jim Henson is that he really cared about the broader puppetry community, not just film and television. “He had a long-running relationship with the Jim Henson family and with Jim himself when he was still alive. “It was a really big deal, and I think our founder, Vince Anthony, deserves a lot of credit for being able to get that here to Atlanta,” said Fritz. “Every day was Christmas, where you’d open a box, and it would be Cookie Monster or other fun Muppets.” So the Jim Henson Legacy, which was kind of the arm of the Jim Henson family, wanting to be able to distribute their father’s collection of pieces… they were distributing the collection, and we were able to go up to New York and to look at their stuff in warehouses and be able to pick stuff to bring back to Atlanta, which was just really exciting,” Fritz recounted. “It was a really special project I had the privilege of working on. On the Center’s 2014 acquisition of hundreds of original Jim Henson pieces: So it’s a lot of good nostalgia across generations.” But this year, we have those original pieces, but we also have some pieces on display from ‘Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas,’ which is a Henson TV special that came out in the ’70s, as well as some Ed Sullivan Muppet-y reindeers that were used in the ‘Ed Sullivan Show,’ and for those of us who are nineties kids, the ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’ cat in a reindeer costume from the 1990s CBS television show. But also, the Center does our stage production every year of the same, almost a shot-for-shot of the original film, so it was really special to have those in our collection,” said Fritz. So in the past two years or so, we’ve acquired Santa and Rudolph puppets from the original 1964 Rankin-Bass production of Rudolph, ‘The Red-Nosed Reindeer,’ which is really exciting, just because in general, those are really important pieces to puppetry and stop motion pieces. “This year, we really wanted to pull together a nice… holiday exhibit to compliment our ‘Rudolph’ stage production, which we also do every year. Original puppets from holiday film classics on display:
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