An Unusual Concert
An Unusual Concert (1946) (Russian: Необыкновенный концерт, Neobyknovennyj Kontsert) is one of Sergey Obraztsov's best known puppet shows. It is considered a masterpiece of puppeteering and bad performers. It appeals both to children and adults.
According to Obraztsov, An Unusual Concert is a theatrical revue or variety show that does not satirize specific genres so much as performers that spoil these genres with their poor performances and poor taste. An Unusual Concert is one of the best-known puppet performances of the 20th century. It premiered in 1946 and has been performed over 10,000 times all around the world.
The show demonstrates rather complicated puppeteering techniques. For example, there is a dancing couple whose tango movements require the skill of seven puppeteers.
Concert program[]
- choral singing: solemn cantata "Vitamin" performed by the combined chapel of the regional pharmacy administration
- chamber music: virtuoso cellist Apollo Apollonovich Peredelkin - master of "improving the classics" with singer Veronika Nesmykalskaya
- opera: mock-aria performed by "the singer of the Italian school Sidor Sidorovich Sidorov-Sidorini"
- operetta: scene and duet from the operetta "My Grandmother's Bouquet"
- avant-garde music: quantum-musical construction "World Perception" performed by the quintet "Balyabadalam-69"
- circus acts: the magician Tarhun ibn Abracadabra Jr. and his assistant Shaherezada Stepanovna, the tamer Euripides Samokhin, the tamer Stella Suisse (nee Stepanida Svistunova), ballroom and variety dances (tango, tap dance), The Gypsy Choir of the Polar Philharmonic under the direction of Pasha Pashin
- foreign stage: French singer Marie Effrayant (an allusion to Juliette Greco, Mireille Mathieu or Marie Laforêt), Latin American trio "Los Selftortuchos"
and entertainer Eduard Aplombov.
External links[]
- Neobyknovenny kontsert at Encyclopædia Britannica
- Trailer[permanent dead link] and Screenshots
- IMDB
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