The puppet styles employed in the center’s production of Rudolph are different from the TV classic, and include rod, body and blacklight puppets, often enhanced by projected moving images. ONGOING EXHIBIT Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: Journey to Goblin City Through Oct. Now they are on long-term loan to the Atlanta institution. That was before a detailed restoration that returned Rudolph’s red nose and half of Santa’s yak-hair mustache. That’s quite an uptick from when an “Antiques Roadshow” expert appraised them for $8,000 to $10,000 in 2005, after a family member of Barbara Adams, an employee of Rankin/Bass in the 1970s, retrieved them from the attic. In a sale held in Los Angeles by Profiles in History auction house late last year, the figures went for $368,000, far eclipsing their estimated value of $150,000 to $200,000. Thanks to a new partnership between the Center for Puppetry Arts and Georgia’s Public Libraries, citizens with valid library cards can check out the center’s new Passport to Puppetry at. It’s the kind of star treatment one would expect for King Tut’s tomb, reflecting how beloved the puppets are - and perhaps also how valuable. The 6-inch-tall Rudolph and 11-inch-tall Santa, handmade creations of Japanese puppet-maker Ichiro Komuro, command the entire gallery, set off by a backdrop painted with snowy trees.
Guests reach the display at the end of a hall of blue-white shimmering material that makes you feel like you’re strolling amid North Pole icebergs toward Something Very Important. The wee figures are given big-star treatment, displayed inside an acrylic vitrine in a gallery a level below the theater. Upping the nostalgia ante, the Center for Puppetry Arts also is presenting an exhibit of the Rudolph and Santa puppets from the 1964 Rankin/Bass Productions TV special, made in collaboration with animation wizard Tadahito Mochinaga and his MOM Film Studio in Tokyo. After taking last Christmas off due to the pandemic, “Rudolph” has returned to the puppetry center to light up the holidays for the 11th year with his bulbous red nose. “Rudolph” is to the Center for Puppetry Arts what “The Nutcracker” is for Atlanta Ballet and a thousand other dance companies: a provider of holiday jingle that bolsters the bottom line year-round. All 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.
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