LAUGH TO KEEP FROM CRYING
A BBMT EVENT SERIES TO AWAKEN JOY
September to November 2024
Bob Baker Marionette Theater invites you to laugh with us! From September until November 2024, join BBMT for an evening event series to awaken your joy and imagination as we blow off some collective steam. Laugh off your worries. Dance off your stress. Enjoy a moment of release from the constant news cycle with events ranging from screenings to music shows to dance parties. We’ll bring a little more joy into the world together, one laugh at a time.
Upcoming Events
All-Ages Dance Party
with Of Your Persuasion
Friday, September 27
Doors: 4 / Event: 4:30- 6:30 PM
Tickets $10
Dance till the sun goes down! Families, friends, and footloose folk are invited to join us to a dance party (with puppets!) hosted by the incredible DJ duo Of Your Persuasion.
Pickle:
Strings Attached
Tuesday, October 8
Doors: 7:30 / Show: 8
Tickets $30
Join Pickle and friends for a live musical puppet extravaganza. She’ll be doing some of her favorite songs, sharing unsolicited philosophical positions, and probably going on many tangents.
Meet the Applegates
with Ed Begley Jr. LIVE IN PERSON
A Hollywood Entertainment Screening
Thursday, October 17
Doors: 7 PM/ Show: 7:30 PM
Tickets $20
BBMT and Hollywood Entertainment are honored to host—live and in person—legendary actor, activist, and author Ed Begley Jr. for a rare screening of the cult classic comedy Meet The Applegates. This film—among the strangest and freakiest of the 90s—has cruelly never been released on DVD or available on streaming. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to celebrate its eerie and hilarious wonders and to get a signed copy of Ed’s wonderful new memoir To the Temple of Tranquility...And Step On It!
Additional activities and fun to be announced!
WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT OUR STRINGS:
A DIY Puppetry Workshop with Freak Nature
Monday, November 4
Doors: 5:30 /Workshop: 6 -10 pm
Tiered Tickets: $25-100
A spectre is haunting Los Angeles — the spectre of puppetry. And Freak Nature Puppets is here to guide you through this revolution. Build crazy giant DIY puppets out of free & scavenged materials, pursue collective goofiness, and reorient your creative process in the name of fun, cheap, plentiful art. In other words — release your inhibitions; feel the rain on your skin. No experience necessary.