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A radio is set to a classical station In Connecticut, he met Jim Henson, "a bona fide genius" with whom he would later work and study "You're always looking for that stuff that sings heavenly music to you when you see it," he says To such slyly funny tunes as "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" and "The Internet Is for Porn," the cast romps through the dilemmas facing recent college graduates everywhere: sex, love, money and finding purpose He has his own puppet performance troupe, too Growing up in Rochester, N " Lyon puppeteers Internet porn enthusiast Trekkie Monster, slacker Nicky and one of the cuddly Bad Idea Bears who gaily lead unsuspecting twentysomethings down the road to ruin " He has also performed in a David Bowie music video and Muppets productions The Lyon Puppets include master of ceremonies Percy, an amorphous, creature with a unibrow who was first made from a purple towel when Lyon was a child; the Poor-But-Happy Farm Boy, who teaches self-esteem; and three Grungekins named Sleazy, Filthy and Icky A Broadway run called for more vivid colors â€â€? along with more puppets to head off awkward, limp-limbed costume changes â€â€? and Lyon and his crew had little time to make adjustments before the July 31 opening A veteran of more than a dozen "Sesame Street" seasons, Lyon also worked in movies on "Neverending Story 3" and two "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles am I doing here?' "Thank God for the puppets As for the rest, Lyon manipulates several and designed them all " The charming, crass and unnervingly familiar puppets of "Avenue Q" have been good to Lyon, taking the 45-year-old puppet master from an extended off-Broadway run to his Broadway debut at the John Golden Theatre "It's what I put on," Lyon says, "and it's what immediately gets voted off the minute we start building "It's very strange," he says So Lyon moved his studio to the top floor of an ivy-covered industrial building in East Orange on May 30 and took the weekend to set up before he began building puppets for his Broadway debut A confessed "scavenger," Lyon stockpiles fabric and has an attic filled with identical backrest pillows because he someday hopes to use the furry material covering them From there, a silhouette is made from foam, covered with fabric and given hair, clothes and other details But cartoons provided inspiration He studied theater at Penn State University and puppetry at the Institute of Professional Puppetry Arts in Waterford, Conn " Decades of puppet-making have taught Lyon a few things: Fur doesn't take dye well, mixing greens is "alchemy, not chemistry" and wedding ring bearers are a puppeteer's best friend since there's nothing worse than making a miniature business suit from scratch , and the Institut Internationale de la Marionnette in France com "Avenue Q": http://www " As a youngster, he made puppets from glue, tape, felt and anything else handy "I use just about everything I know how to do," he says Shelves hold containers filled with fabric scraps and puppet parts "My thumbprint's all over it , Lyon got his first puppet when he was about 5 â€â€? a cat hand puppet much like Daniel Striped Tiger on "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood com Since childhood, the variety involved in puppetry has appealed to Lyon: For "Avenue Q," he sketched, built, detailed and clothed the puppets, and he gets onstage to sing and perform beside them "For whatever reason, it's something that was in me right from the get-go," he says After a while, meeting the quizzical, orange-eyed gaze of the first feels natural, even though he is little more than a bag of soft, brown fur trimmed with magenta ostrich feathers Will it have to pick something up during the show? Will its puppeteer be left- or right-handed? How long are the puppeteer's arms? A puppet, says Lyon, is a "kinetic sculpture": Its success has as much to do with movement as appearance " The special foam that gives the puppets their shape is heaped on unfinished hardwood floors Before starting a puppet, he has to know everything about it Y "You have to start somewhere "It's a very foreign environment for me, and I look around and think, 'What Few of Avenue Q's residents are human avenueq Rick Lyon Is Voice of 'Avenue Q' Oct 1, 11:02 AM EST Two stars of the Broadway musical "Avenue Q" await curtain time in an upstairs dressing room Inside the cavernous studio, tables of different heights stand beside the windows, the tallest table to accommodate Lyon's lanky frame His first public performances were school projects " "Sometimes, the first ones you make are absolutely appalling," says Lyon Trekkie Monster has bags under his eyes, Lyon says, because "he spends way too much time at the computer terminal Even though Rick Lyon, the man behind the puppet, speaks for both Some famous children's shows that used puppets â€â€? "Kukla, Fran, and Ollie" and "Captain Kangaroo" â€â€? were mostly before Lyon's time, although he got to know them later in life " â€â€?â€â€?â€â€? On the Net: Rick Lyon: http://www Each puppet starts as a sketch, usually done on computer "It's nice to have a toaster that looks good, but it's better if it makes toast," he says "It's all sort of on me," he says One is animated and expressive, the other more reserved Advertisements topping taxicabs all over New York City bear Trekkie Monster's face, but Lyon hardly mentions them By the time he turned 11, he was adept with a sewing machine When given a copy of The New Yorker, opened to his photograph, Lyon glances at it and lays it down in his dressing room without a word lyonpuppets "'Sesame Street,'" Lyon calls it, "with a couple layers of soot Puppetry also helps him get beyond his own shyness: "You get to experience all these lives you could never live on your own " But the attention "Avenue Q" has attracted still makes him squirm a little " At the Golden Theatre, the "Avenue Q" puppets reside in the rafters between shows A few prototypes remain in the studio, including the play's hero, Princeton, who is done in what Lyon calls "electric school bus orange Carter was married and divorced twice Carter also played the cruel orphanage operator Miss Hannigan in the 1997 revival of "Annie" and appeared in the movies "The Grass Harp" (1995), "Modern Problems" (1981) and "Hair" (1979) Carter had suffered from diabetes for years, Lane said, and she underwent two brain operations in 1992 to fix aneurysms In 1985, an episode was broadcast live â€â€? the first for a situation comedy in nearly 30 years The show ran from 1981 to 1987 Carter garnered two more Emmy nominations in 1982 and 1983 for "Gimme a Break!," playing a housekeeper to a family headed by a widower who was the town police chief She longed to sing opera, then aspired to be a belter The cause of death was not immediately known 'Gimme a Break' Star Nell Carter Dies Jan 23, 5:04 PM EST Nell Carter, who played the stout, sassy housekeeper on the 1980s sitcom "Gimme a Break!" and won a Tony Award in 1978 for her sultry turn in the Broadway musical "Ain't Misbehavin'," died Thursday at 54 "She was a pioneer in many ways," said fellow Tony winner Audra McDonald " Blessed with a big voice and strong stage presence despite her 4-foot-11 height, the heavyset Carter prided herself on her range as a performer, doing musicals and drama as well as comedy Carter grew up in Birmingham, Ala From early in her career until the mid-1980s, Carter struggled with alcohol and drugs, eventually shaking her addictions through a 12-step program She recovered and continued to perform, mostly on stage Her quietly soulful number "Mean to Me" was a show highlight " In addition to her Tony for "Ain't Misbehavin,'" Carter received an Emmy in 1982 for a TV broadcast of the show, which was a revue of Fats Waller songs She is survived by her two sons and a daughter She sang on the gospel circuit before moving on to coffeehouses and nightclubs , singing in her church choir "She had the ability to be such an incredible comedic musical-theater actress, blow a song all the way to the back of the wall and then come down and be so intimate and beautiful in a ballad At the time of her death, Carter was in rehearsals at a Long Beach theater for "Raisin," a musical version of "Raisin in the Sun The singer-actress collapsed in her Beverly Hills home and was found by one of her 13-year-old sons, spokesman Roger Lane said |
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