James Maynard Theatrical Designs

Here is a color photo of the White Lady from SANTA'S MAGIC CIRCUS and the Opera Singer which I designed and constructed for the same tour. The puppets were made of Celastic back then, a form of fiberglass which is now banned due to it's toxicity. Some of my health problems today are no doubt related to the hours and hours I spent hunched over those deadly molds!

The Opera Singer was quite an act unto herself. Specially strung so that she could snap open and closed her feather fan and with a bosum which rose and fell with her vibratta. Moving mouth and eyes and for her high note, a neck that extended up about 12 inches! Again you can see the size in relation to me standing behind her. We needed big scale as we performed Cabaret Style in black in full view of the audience on a set that filled the entire concert hall stage.