INVITE – PLEASE Come to Our First Birthday Party!!!
I really wanted to get these tickets available weeks ago but my plate was overloaded… they’re available now, though! And FYI, if you’ve been to any of our previous events, we’ll give you a loyalty discount! Woo hoo!
This is going to be SUCH a fun event, I can’t wait for you all to join us! The ticket is a bit more because it includes a WHOLE lot of awesomeness and is a fully catered evening. Think of it this way… your birthday gift to us will be supporting Bob Baker Marionette Theater! What better way to spend an evening than marionettes, alcohol, tacos and birthday cake!?
All tickets include:
- Pre-show mixer sponsored by Karlsson’s Vodka
- Admission to Bob Baker’s “It’s A Musical World” Marionette Show
- Ice Cream and Birthday Cake from Hansen’s Cakes
- Full post-show catering and sangria provided by The Border Grill Truck
- Gourmet soft drinks from Gus’ Grown Up Soda
- Plus… who knows what else! 🙂
PLEASE come to our birthday party! Pretty please!???
TO PURCHASE TICKETS, CLICK HERE.
Update:
Hidden Los Angeles has received zillions of messages from fans saying they’re super excited to attend, but less than 1/3 of our (Border Grill Truck and Karlsson vodka catered) birthday party tickets have sold and the party’s Saturday(!) Without your active support, after the historic Bob Baker Marionettes (and HiddenLA, for that matter) …could become future “things that aren’t here anymore”…
Bob Baker Marionette Theater
1345 West 1st Street
Los Angeles, CA 90026-5804
Please join us as we take a night to celebrate the one year anniversary of Hidden Los Angeles’ very first post. Unlike with human births, we still have labor pains every day with HiddenLA but we love our child with all of our hearts (and we love you for supporting us along the way!). So where better to honor a birthday than the very place where Angeleno children have been celebrating special birthdays for FIFTY YEARS… the Bob Baker Marionette Theater!!!?
So please join us on June 26th along with the good people of The Border Grill Truck, Karlsson’s Vodka and GuS Grown Up Soda for an Angeleno evening that won’t be soon forgotten!
About the Theater
The Bob Baker Marionette Theater in downtown Los Angeles is the oldest of its kind in the United States and has been entertaining children of all ages since its inception in 1960. At that time, Bob Baker and his business partner Alton Wood turned a scene shop in Los Angeles into the family entertainment landmark that it is today. Jennifer Steinhauer of The New York Times has described Baker’s shows as “a staple of a Los Angeleno childhood. It is the cultural equivalent of the annual march by the nation’s third graders to the neighborhood firehouse.” On June 3, 2009, The Bob Baker Marionette Theater was declared an historic cultural monument by the city of Los Angeles. “We have had fifty amazing years right here on First Street, and here’s to fifty more!” says Bob Baker, commenting on the occasion of the theater’s Golden Anniversary.
About the Show
We will be watching “It’s A Musical World,” Bob Baker’s marionette revue that first opened at the theater in 1978. With a stop at an Enchanted Toy Shop, and even the arrival of spring (at the teddy bear’s picnic of course), “It’s A Musical World” even includes a red, white and blue finale!
About Bob Baker
Bob Baker first became interested in puppetry at the age of five, and has since become an innovator, artist, puppet master, and top-notch animator with credits in television and film.
His marionettes have entertained thousands of children and adults worldwide over the years. Mr. Baker has a current inventory of over three thousand puppets, with just about everything from robots that light up, to dancing frogs, to egg laying chickens.
Bob began to learn the magic of puppetry at the early age of eight. He trained with several different local companies and put his skills to work with his first professional performance for director Mervyn Leroy.
While attending Hollywood High School, Bob began manufacturing toy marionettes that sold both in Europe and the United States. Fifty of the finest department stores in the country carried his line including Bullocks Wilshire, Saks Fifth Avenue, Niemen Marcus, FAO Schwarz, and Marshall Fields. After graduation at the age of eighteen, he began his extensive career in animation at the George Pal Studios. He began as an apprentice and soon became a head animator of “Puppetoons” a year later.
After WWII, Bob served as an animation advisor at many film studios including Walt Disney. As a puppeteer his prestigious credits include the films: “A Star Is Born”, “G.I. Blues,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, “Escape to Witch Mountain,” and “Bedknobs and Broomsticks”, as well as work on countless television series and projects. Baker has performed with the likes of Judy Garland, Elvis Presley, and Angela Lansbury.
Aside from running the theater, Baker maintains an active role in the company’s traveling shows. Bob has taken his marionettes to countless fairs, puppet festivals, and of course, birthday parties. The Bob Baker Marionettes have entertained audiences in Las Vegas, Toronto, New York, Germany, and have even performed on Navy ships and submarines.
Mr. Baker is the former president of the Los Angeles Puppet Guild and Governor of the Television Arts & Sciences Animation Branch and currently sits on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. His dream of establishing a school began with the formation of the non-profit group “The Academy of Puppetry and Allied Arts.” Although his goal of a refurbished theater complex complete with training facilities is still a long way off, Bob hopes with the aid of civic leaders and corporate sponsors, his academy will one day be a reality.
