Archive for July, 2008

Aunt Dottie

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Sometimes you just have to do it. I had met women several years ago in my old neighborhood who was not the most pleasant person in the world. She was a spinster that never married and it seems for good reason. This gal was a retired Supervisor for the old telephone company before [...]

Something About the Goofball Figure

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

 

There is something about the goofball figures that have always attracted me. A lot of Ventriloquists use these types of figures to do fill in or for an encore.
I prefer to have some well scripted routines that really get in to the depth of their stupidity in order to examine the logic behind their [...]

Character Development

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

This article is meant to serve as a guide to the aspiring ventriloquist as he or she works on developing the character of their little partner.
One thing that I suggest not doing is trying to make a personality fit a puppet that you bought on an impulse without figuring out what the character is going [...]