![]() It’s like the holiday set has escaped the theater and is gradually wrapping everything that isn’t moving in sparkly reds, greens and silvers.Īll of this and more plays a supporting role for the puppetry center’s main attraction, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the puppet show based on the 1964 stop-motion animated Christmas television special. Upstairs, kids and parents collaborate on Rudolph shadow puppets in the Create-A-Puppet Workshop. Santa and Rudolph puppets from the 1964 TV special are featured in a gallery exhibition that is part of the Center for Puppetry Arts’ “Christmas Town” special attraction.Īt one end of the lobby, there’s even a circa-1950s coin-operated Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer amusement ride of the sort that sat outside sundry stores before insurance liability became such a buzz kill. Now through January 2, the Midtown funhouse has been transformed into “Christmas Town,” with giant snowflakes dangling from its atrium’s high ceiling, multiple Christmas trees sparkling with lights, and gift-wrapped presents stacked high. It’s hard to top the Center for Puppetry Arts. But, say you’re a theatergoer who wants to go walking in a Winter Wonderland, or the closest you can come to it in a city where every sled is gridlocked on a 70-degree fall day. All across snowy Atlanta (OK, not snowy, but one can wish), theater companies are staging A Christmas Carol or decking their halls with other holiday confections.
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