The year was 1956. The
average cost of a new house was $11,700. Elvis appeared on “The Ed Sullivan
Show” for the first time. The Warriors—the Philadelphia Warriors, that is—won
the NBA championship.
And Children’s Fairyland’s
puppet theater opened to the public for the very first time.
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| The Storybook Puppet Theater in 1957. |
Sixty years, 150 productions
and close to 50,000 performances later, the Storybook Puppet Theater is the oldest continuously operating puppet theater in the United States. We think it’s a great time to celebrate
this landmark institution, the place where literally millions of kids were first
exposed to live performing arts and where the talents of many young puppeteers –
including the Muppets’ Frank Oz – were nurtured.
And what better way to
celebrate than to do something our theater—and the city of Oakland—has never
seen before?
