Puppet Show
2008
This 2008 puppet show survives chiefly through its music. The archive preserves a full set of recorded tracks and sound cues rather than a script, but together they sketch out a warm children's production carried by song. The repeated number "It's Good to Be Friends" — heard at the opening, again midway, and once more as a reprise and finale — gives the show its heart and its theme: friendship.
The recordings introduce a small troupe of puppet characters, among them Felix, Max, Ralph, Frizzy, and Maude. Their world unfolds through musical episodes — a carnival, a star, a "Pretend Harp," and dance numbers for Frizzy and Maude — interwoven with Ralph's flying entrances and the gentle moral of getting along. An "American Anthem" rounds out the collection, suggesting a patriotic flourish near the close.
The presence of multiple takes and alternate versions of several tracks points to a careful editing and refinement process behind the scenes, the kind of patient craft that went into making a puppet show feel effortless on stage.
Musical Numbers
- Opening Music
- It's Good to Be Friends
- Felix and Max
- Pretend Harp
- Carnival
- The Star
- Don't Try
- Ralph's Entrance
- Ralph Fly 1
- Ralph Fly 2
- Frizzy & Maude Dance
- Frizzy and Maude Dance #2
- It's Good to Be Friends (Reprise)
- It's Good to Be Friends (Finale)
- American Anthem
Characters
- Felix
- Max
- Ralph
- Frizzy
- Maude
Production Notes
A puppet show and children's theatre production from 2008, built around an original set of recorded music tracks and sound cues. The surviving materials are almost entirely audio — multiple .wav and .mp3 recordings, including several alternate takes — with no script or detailed program preserved in the archive. The recurring "It's Good to Be Friends," opening the show and returning as both reprise and finale, anchors the production's friendship theme.