Bob Baker Marionette to Hold Halloween Costume Parade, 10/23-24, 30-31

The Bob Baker Marionette Theater has just announced a speciAl Halloween Costume Parade at select performances of "Bob Baker's Halloween Hoop-Dee-Do" playing now through October 31, 2010.

At the 2:30pm matinee performances on Saturday October 23, Sunday October 24, Saturday October 30, and of course on Halloween itself, Sunday October 31, there will be a speciAl Halloween Costume Parade before the performance. Guests are encouraged to come in costume to the show and be part of the parade! There will be a special prize for "Best Costume of the Day" at each of these performances. The Bob Baker Marionette Theater will also offer a $5 discount on every ticket for every performance of this special production throughout the month.

One of the theater's perennial favorites, "Bob Baker's Halloween Hoop-De-Do" first played the theater in 1963.  Featuring a fantastical cast of over 100 Halloween themed puppets, from the Purple People Eater and the Invisible Man to a gaggle of Roaring 20's skeletons dancing the night away in Hernando's Hideaway, "Bob Baker's Halloween Hoop-De-Do" will whisk you away to "the place where imagination dwells". 

These celebrated marionettes are presented in Bob Baker's now famous "In the Round" cabaret style, with the puppeteers not only exposed to the audience, but serving as an integral part of the proceedings . . . and also making the audience part of the show.
 
"Bob Baker's Halloween Hoop-De-Do" is an hour-long revue. After the performance, guests are invited to visit with the Puppeteers and have refreshments in our Party Room.
 
The Bob Baker Marionette Theater in downtown Los Angeles is the oldest of its kind in the United States and has been entertaining children of all ages since its inception in 1960. At that time, Bob Baker and his business partner Alton Wood turned a scene shop in Los Angeles into the family entertainment landmark that it is today. 

Jennifer Steinhauer of The New York Times has described Baker's shows as "a staple of a Los Angeleno childhood. It is the cultural equivalent of the annual march by the nation's third graders to the neighborhood firehouse." On June 3, 2009, The Bob Baker Marionette Theater was declared an historic cultural monument by the city of Los Angeles.

This special anniversary season at the theater features five of the Theater's most beloved productions. "Fiesta" played January 19 through April 11,"It's A Musical World," played April 17 through July 11, and "Something To Crow About!" is currently playing through September 26. "Bob Baker's Halloween Hoop-Dee-Do" arrives in time for Halloween 2010, and the season will come to a close with the holiday classic, "Bob Baker's Nutcracker," playing November 6 through January 16, 2011.  This marionette version of the legendary ballet has been one of Bob's most requested holiday productions since it was first presented in 1965.

This is the first time the Bob Baker Marionette Theater has ever presented this many productions at the Theater in one calendar year.
 "We have had fifty amazing years right here on First Street, and here's to fifty more!" says Bob Baker, commenting on the occasion of the Theater's Golden Anniversary.

 

Photo Credit: Bob Baker Marionette Theater

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