Rick Lyon to Conduct Puppetry Workshop at Archmere Academy
Rick Lyon, Professional Puppeteer, will be giving a workshop to the cast of Archmere Academy’s winter musical, Avenue Q School Edition, during the second week of January. Mr. Lyon designs and builds custom puppets, including the puppets used for the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q on Broadway, in London, and on tour nationally. Mr. Lyon, a resident of Bloomfield, NJ, designed the puppets and appeared in the original Broadway production of Avenue Q, which beat out Wicked to win the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2004. Other projects have included puppets for Comedy Central's Crank Yankers, puppets and props for Nickelodeon's Stick Stickly, television pilots for VH1, Nickelodeon, PBS, numerous industrials and home videos, and the live national tour of PBS's The Magic School Bus.
Filled with gut-busting humor and a delightfully catchy score, not to mention puppets, Avenue Q is a truly unique show that has quickly become a favorite for audiences everywhere. From January 11th – 13th, the Archmere cast will have the privilege of learning from Mr. Lyon, who will be working with puppets that he created and designed himself. He will be giving three, 3-hour puppeteering workshops, introducing puppeteering skills to the Archmere students and then working with specific scenes and songs from the musical. The students will be learning with Rick's own handmade, original puppets to create unique characters with movements, gestures, and expressions. His company, The Lyon Puppets, built all of the puppets for Avenue Q, and Mr. Lyon also originated the roles of Nicky, Trekkie Monster, and other characters. Archmere's presentation of Avenue Q School Edition will run the weekend of February 24th, 2017.
Archmere Academy is a private, Catholic, college preparatory co-educational academy,
grades 9-12 founded in 1932 by the Norbertine Fathers.
grades 9-12 founded in 1932 by the Norbertine Fathers.
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