Puppets on Parade ’81
The Queensland Marionette Theatre
Stage Manager for Puppets on Parade ’81 at the Twelfth Night Theatre, Bowen Hills, QLD, from September 7 until 19, 1981 as a part of the Warana Festival for Phillip Edmiston’s Queensland Marionette Theatre and TheatreStrings done in repertory with A Little Bit of Broadway.
Props by Paul Parkinson.
This was a 50-minute musical, with about 50 half life size marionettes, each with their own respective specially designed costumes and wigs, a narrator and 3.5 tonnes of scenery. It became an annual event and subsequent tour with 2 variations — one for adults, and one for kids.