Marionettes at Play

The New York Times: One afternoon last month, the shiny red curtains parted at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater to reveal the dancing Three Caballeros — puppets in the shape of a big-beaked toucan, a parrot and a rooster — manipulated from above by puppeteers dressed head to toe in red. Two long-necked feathery ostrich puppets followed, with one laying an egg that cracked open to reveal a baby ostrich puppet. Then a bright orange squirrel puppet tap-danced to the old show tune “I’m Fascinating.”