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Ventriloquism Made Easy: How to Talk to Your Hand Without Looking Stupid! Second Edition | 
| Authors: Paul Stadelman, Bruce Fife
Publisher: Piccadilly Books, Ltd.
Category: Book
Buy New: $10.95
Rating:  4 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 96
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.4
ISBN: 094159906X
Dewey Decimal Number: 793.8
EAN: 9780941599061
ASIN: 094159906X
Publication Date: November 1989
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Good book for basics September 30, 2008
Mark Pettey (Naples, FL United States)
Any book with Steve Axtell on the cover gets my attention. Ax is one of the driving forces in puppetry, and would not pose for a cover on a whim. Bruce & Paul, the authors, have collected all the basics needed to start practicing vent. Lots of good tips for beginners on performance, sample scripts, and all around valuable info.
Good Intro January 9, 2007
Cindy (Black Hills, SD United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is an easy to read and use book and a great activity to do with your kids, particularly if they have any speech difficulties. You can get started with a sock puppet if you like, so it's also inexpensive.
Great Book September 5, 2005
J. O'Hara (Southern, ME. USA)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I just got the book and already I am starting to get the hang of it. I am nowhere near good enough to take it on the road, but this book will give you the tools to feel confedent right from the start.
One of my favorite and FUNNIEST how to do "vent" books! September 5, 2001
Joel L. Gandelman (San Diego, CA USA)
62 out of 63 found this review helpful
As someone who got interested in ventriloquism (and eventually dumped a 20 year newspaper career to work with WOODEN dummies) I was often frustrated reading how-to-do-ventriloquism books. Most were either amazingly boring, unknowingly pompous, or filled with cutsey-comments that seemingly padded an explanation of what I believe is actually a relatively easy "art" (if you are nutty enough to practice in front of a mirror until you perfect the "hard" letters). This is one of my FAVORITE now to do ventriloquism books -- and to this day it remains the funniest. I still do a routine in my show based on the structure of one of Paul Stadelman's classic bits (I have long since replaced the actual jokes). The late Paul Stadelman was a "classic" and I believe underrated vent who performed, taught and was on television for many years. And this book is worth it's price just for the zippy routines with Stadelman and his dummy Windy Higgins. These don't go on and on with long set-ups but are punchy, quick pay-off bits (and if Stadelman used a pun it was seldom groan-inducing). Stadelman was clearly more influenced by vaudeville and comedy teams than by other ventriloquists (which I think is GOOD). At the least these routines help readers understand routine construction and setup-joke structure. The late, wonderful Col. Bill Boley (another performer who deserved a higher national profile since there are zillions of ventriloquists running around doing bits of his published work and others who painstakingly "emulate" his original routines) was the only other ventriloquist whose published routines came CLOSE to doing this. And to TEACH you vent? This book has it all. It gives you the substitute letters (to say for the hard letters) and words to practice to perfect them. It also tells you how to make a puppet out of your hand, gives you performing tips, has some great ventriloquism-related photos, and and list of suppliers and organizations (some of this is outdated now). If someone was interested in "vent" and had this book, George Schindler's Ventriloquism: Magic With Your Voice and the in-its-own-class Maher Studios correspondence course they'd have it all. Plus, if they have this book they're going to also have some BIG laughs while reading it. Paul Stadelman is truly ventriloquism's unsung hero!
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