Look up on the stage -- It's a puppet. It's a person. No, it's a humanette! Something like a Muppet, but you see the person too.
One of this season's Opera to Go! productions is The Princess & the Pea. They've done it before, but this time they're adding a whole 'nother dimension. In a normal Opera to Go! show the performers often fill more than one role in more than one costume, but now they get to be puppeteers too. One of Dennis' characters will be the Ogre shown in the second video below.
Read all about it in this Houston Press blog story by Brittanie Shey about Designer James Wojtal. He's the one in these videos.
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