Re: Hello everybody! Posted by Southpaw on Nov 14, 2011
Billy & All,
Hiya everyone. Thanks for the warm welcome. I'll try and answer some of the questions. Do I have a website? The answer to that is no. I know, I should. I just get so busy with some of my projects that I only snap a few pics and move on so I haven't had time to develop one. I am working on adding some pics to this site soon. It is something I will be correcting and working on. I'll have to get my partner to help me build it as I'm not very tech savvy.
Currently on my slate are some Winter Holiday puppets. First will be a couple of elves and then the big man himself, Santa. I may do some others as I have time (yeah, right).
I promise I will keep everyone updated on my progress with Avenue Q. Before that show however, we are going to be producing the regional premier of 9 to 5: The Musical. So my time of course will de diverted to that in spring.
Billy, you asked specifically about how to license Avenue Q? Previously, you had to have a special contract with the publishing company and the owners. Now that the production is available for amateur production anyone can apply for the rights. You simply have to go to MTI (the publisher), tell them about the type of production you want to do, when you expect to perform it, how many your venue can seat, how much you're charging, etc. and they will give you a quote. Then you simply pay for the materials and off you go.
The show is not terribly expensive to license. I think our show for a three week run to license is somewhere in the neighborhood of $2300.00. That doesn't include the puppets.
The puppets are a separate issue. If you plan on the puppets looking like their Broadway counterparts you have to either rent the puppets from MTI, which are not not very good looking, (sorry if anyone here helped make them but for the price, strange sizes, weird eye focus, etc.) or rent them from Rick Lyon. I haven't gotten a quote to rent puppets from Rick but from what I've heard there is only a $5000.00 difference between the two. If Rick is a member here I'm sure he will either confirm or deny. That however was second hand info that a local professional group that had looked into renting from him told me. The MTI show puppets are $15,000 for 8 weeks. Too rich for my blood and unattractive.
Since they don't have a way to license the likeness of those puppets (Rick is the copyright holder to their likeness) we'll be creating our own original versions of the characters. As soon as I start building the oh, um..... 27 or so puppets *whew* I'll let everyone know.
Later,
Lee
Hiya everyone. Thanks for the warm welcome. I'll try and answer some of the questions. Do I have a website? The answer to that is no. I know, I should. I just get so busy with some of my projects that I only snap a few pics and move on so I haven't had time to develop one. I am working on adding some pics to this site soon. It is something I will be correcting and working on. I'll have to get my partner to help me build it as I'm not very tech savvy.
Currently on my slate are some Winter Holiday puppets. First will be a couple of elves and then the big man himself, Santa. I may do some others as I have time (yeah, right).
I promise I will keep everyone updated on my progress with Avenue Q. Before that show however, we are going to be producing the regional premier of 9 to 5: The Musical. So my time of course will de diverted to that in spring.
Billy, you asked specifically about how to license Avenue Q? Previously, you had to have a special contract with the publishing company and the owners. Now that the production is available for amateur production anyone can apply for the rights. You simply have to go to MTI (the publisher), tell them about the type of production you want to do, when you expect to perform it, how many your venue can seat, how much you're charging, etc. and they will give you a quote. Then you simply pay for the materials and off you go.
The show is not terribly expensive to license. I think our show for a three week run to license is somewhere in the neighborhood of $2300.00. That doesn't include the puppets.
The puppets are a separate issue. If you plan on the puppets looking like their Broadway counterparts you have to either rent the puppets from MTI, which are not not very good looking, (sorry if anyone here helped make them but for the price, strange sizes, weird eye focus, etc.) or rent them from Rick Lyon. I haven't gotten a quote to rent puppets from Rick but from what I've heard there is only a $5000.00 difference between the two. If Rick is a member here I'm sure he will either confirm or deny. That however was second hand info that a local professional group that had looked into renting from him told me. The MTI show puppets are $15,000 for 8 weeks. Too rich for my blood and unattractive.
Since they don't have a way to license the likeness of those puppets (Rick is the copyright holder to their likeness) we'll be creating our own original versions of the characters. As soon as I start building the oh, um..... 27 or so puppets *whew* I'll let everyone know.
Later,
Lee
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