Puppeteer To Present “Jack And The Beanstalk”09:05AM / Thursday, December 04, 2008
LENOX, Mass. - The popular puppeteer Carl Sprague will return to Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum in Lenox with the classic fairytale “Jack and the Beanstalk” for two Christmas-week marionette performances. The dates and times are Saturday, December 27th and Monday, December 29th at 3 pm.
Sprague, who has appeared several times at Ventfort Hall, has been a puppeteer since childhood. He has inherited a collection of 60 Czech marionettes, each about eight inches tall, that were assembled by his great-grandfather, Julius Hybler, with purchased heads and hand-made costumes. Hybler’s legacy also includes two marionette theaters.
Sprague, a set designer for such motion pictures as “The Royal Tenenbaums” and Scorcese’s “The Age of Innocence,” is the son of Tjasa and Peter Sprague. He is also well known for theater productions including those of Shakespeare & Company. He lives in Stockbridge with his wife Susan and their son and daughter.
Admission to the show and tea is $15 per person, $12 for members of the Ventfort Hall Association, $5 for children 6 to 17, and free for children 5 and under. Children must be accompanied by adults. For further information and to make reservations, please call Ventfort Hall at 413-637-3206. The historic mansion is located at 104 Walker Street in Lenox.
An Official Project of Save America’s Treasures, Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum offers tours of the historic mansion, as well as lectures, concerts, teas, theater and other programs. This elegant Elizabethan-revival Berkshire “cottage,” listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is open to the public year-round and is available for private rental. Built in 1893 for George and Sarah Morgan (sister of the financier, J. P. Morgan), Ventfort Hall has undergone substantial restoration, which continues. |
