Hey Audience! Hey What?
Yesterday we went to the New York Ren Faire in Tudexo New York. We try to go once a year. This year Caroline was wearing a dress we got Ariel many moons ago. She looked like a little lady. She joined Robin Hood’s Merry Band and got a cool bracelet that she worn with great pride (Unfortunately, it was lost on the way home and she is rather sad about it. We searched the car but think that it came off when she was walking across the parking lot.) She had a picnic with the Queen and led a discussion about Dragons: Friend or Foe. She had a grand time.
We had a good time too. We saw some great shows. I highly recommend the aerialists who are set up next to the chessboard and the camel ride (Yes, Caroline did ride a camel and she loved it.) We saw a number of other street performers and the various shows.
The weather was pretty nice with intermittent light rain which either cooled things down or humided them up to a rather sticky day. We were about to leave when we walked by the Pageant Wagon where I saw a sign that the Ded Bob Show was one of the shows available. And at that moment I didn’t care if the skies opened up, I was going to see the Ded Bob Show.
Ded Bob holds his existence to a friend and professional theater jack-of-all-trades Jeffrey Watkins who runs that Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern who encouraged Clark Orwick who created this insane puppet named Ded Bob. This was back in 1986 and Bob was part of a show called “Shakespeare Shorts”. Then Ded Bob took on a “life” of his own and has been seen across the country at various ren faires. I have seen Ded Bob perform a number of times through-out the years and have always enjoyed my encounters with him.
Now there are three dummies who travel with Ded Bob, Smuj (the original dummy), Puj, and Sluj (who is helping him at the New York Ren Faire). So things are a little different but still the same. The phrases that we all know like “Look into my eye sockets” and “You’ve been Bobmitized” along with that famous call and response “Hey Audience!” “Hey What?” The songs and the jokes are familiar with a few new ones sprinkled in. But the voice was a little different. Close to the original but just a little different. Kind of like when a Muppet gets handed off, it sounds pretty much the same but there is something that you can’t put your finger on.
But that didn’t matter to me. It was Ded Bob. I got Bobmotized and I am such a Bob-Zombie. It was fun to hear the jokes again and just join in the silliness.
I am grateful that I got to see the Ded Bob Show again.
We had a good time too. We saw some great shows. I highly recommend the aerialists who are set up next to the chessboard and the camel ride (Yes, Caroline did ride a camel and she loved it.) We saw a number of other street performers and the various shows.
The weather was pretty nice with intermittent light rain which either cooled things down or humided them up to a rather sticky day. We were about to leave when we walked by the Pageant Wagon where I saw a sign that the Ded Bob Show was one of the shows available. And at that moment I didn’t care if the skies opened up, I was going to see the Ded Bob Show.
Ded Bob holds his existence to a friend and professional theater jack-of-all-trades Jeffrey Watkins who runs that Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern who encouraged Clark Orwick who created this insane puppet named Ded Bob. This was back in 1986 and Bob was part of a show called “Shakespeare Shorts”. Then Ded Bob took on a “life” of his own and has been seen across the country at various ren faires. I have seen Ded Bob perform a number of times through-out the years and have always enjoyed my encounters with him.
Now there are three dummies who travel with Ded Bob, Smuj (the original dummy), Puj, and Sluj (who is helping him at the New York Ren Faire). So things are a little different but still the same. The phrases that we all know like “Look into my eye sockets” and “You’ve been Bobmitized” along with that famous call and response “Hey Audience!” “Hey What?” The songs and the jokes are familiar with a few new ones sprinkled in. But the voice was a little different. Close to the original but just a little different. Kind of like when a Muppet gets handed off, it sounds pretty much the same but there is something that you can’t put your finger on.
But that didn’t matter to me. It was Ded Bob. I got Bobmotized and I am such a Bob-Zombie. It was fun to hear the jokes again and just join in the silliness.
I am grateful that I got to see the Ded Bob Show again.