There was a scene in Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music which I like, featuring puppets and a catchy song sung by Julie Andrew, The Lonely Goatherd. It's not the yodeling but the puppets that I like. The Chinese puppet theaters offer similar marionettes on strings besides three other forms - rod puppets, shadow plays, and hand manipulated glove-type puppets. I suppose come this year's festival of the hungry ghosts, a puppet show will come to town - the hand manipulated glove-type puppets.
Watch one from TV, won't you?
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