Summer 2008 Volume 59, No. 4

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

COVER STORY

Puppet Fever, A Season  of Festivals and Workshops

2 Southeast Region, Puppet Gumbo

3 Great Lakes Region, A Puppet Family Reunion

5 Northeast/Mid-Atlantic Regions, Capital Fireworks

6 Pacific Northwest Region, The Rolling Regional

7 The 18th Annual O’Neill Puppetry Conference

9 International Puppet Festival in Nashville

10 PuppetFest Midwest 

FEATURE ARTICLES 

12 Variety Marionette Choreography and Performance, by Phillip Huber

16 Antiques Roadshow – Discovering Gary Busk, by Dan Peeler and Charlie Rose

17 Puppet Opera – It Ain’t Over ‘Til the Fat Lady Pulls the Strings/Rods, by Peter and Debbie Allen

24 Create a Character!  Puppetry as a Tool in Teaching Narrative Fiction, by Rolande Duprey

IN MEMORIAM

19 Molly Jameson, by Dan Peeler

19 Georgia Milovsoroff, by Peter Milovsoroff

20 Kermit Love, Larger Than Life, by Pam Arciero, Carroll Spinney, Martin Robinson and Paul Eide

AT LARGE

• UNIMA-USA Citations of Excellence Presented
• Puppet Ramage DVD Now Available
• Letters to the Editor
• First Annual Santa Monica Puppetry Festival
• Northern Minnesota Exhibit on Puppet Activism 

BOOKS

26  KATHPULTI – The World of Rajastani Puppeteers, by Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy

COLUMNS

27 Scene East:  Closing of Mum Puppettheatre, Bill Irwin, Basil Twist, Landmark for Avenue Q

28 Scene West:  Activities in Arizona, Los Angeles and San Francisco

29 Scene Between:  Aretta Baumgartner and what’s happening in Cincinnati

30 A Bob’s Eye View:  How to Do a Roast

31 Poor Alan’s Almanack:  Tales of the Krofft Brothers

COVER

Illustration by Steve Mark,

Minnesota puppeteer and illustrator