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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Performed by The Onion Weavers...
...Onion Weavers Puppet The after was founded in 1992 and since then they have tackled Aristophanes' The Frogs, the Star Wars trilogy and Edgar Allen Poe's stories, all with wonderfully funny results. For their newest production, they chronicle Elvis Presley's music, life, and after life. He has never been quite so, er, honored...
Undeniably Elvis is king, but the Onion Weaver's Puppetry reveals him to be a prophet and cultural icon in a way few other media could. Using a multi-level multimedia approach, we guffaw at the professor puppet's scholarly analyses and the confessions of Elvis' sideburns. The live Blue Hawaii scene and the Graceland tour guide, though not puppets, are also side-splittingly funny. Frequent gifts flung to the audience accentuate the notion of Elvis as paraphernalia and keep everyone happy...
From the voting box on the program for the Young Elvis Pez or the Old Elvis Pez, until long after the spectacle of a curtain call, Elvis makes you smile. The production is witty, creative, and even informative. There's nothing at Harvard quite like the Onion Weavers--no one else could make Elvis live...
...show goes up during the Arts First festival and will continue through the next weekend, for a grand total of twelve shows. To encourage a feeling of oneness with the Big E, the Onion Weavers plan to offer a fifty-percent discount to anyone who shows up with some form of sideburns...