Terry Hall (ventriloquist) Terry Hall (ventriloquist) Terence "Terry" Hall (20 November 1926 – 3 April 2007) was an English ventriloquist. He appeared regularly on television with his puppet, Lenny the Lion, whose catchphrase was "Aw, don't embawass me!" Hall is credited with having been one of the first ventriloquists to use a non-human puppet. Hall was born in Chadderton, Lancashire, where his parents ran a working men's club. He was educated at St Patrick's School in Oldham and at De La Salle College in Pendleton, Salford. Hall initially worked as a ventriloquist with a boy dummy, named Mickey Finn, and won a talent
Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe celebratory dance piece that opens a program of puppet theater; "Yaoya Oshichi" 八百屋お七 or "Date Musume Koi no Higanoko" 伊達娘恋火子, the story of a young woman who must climb a fire tower and sacrifice herself on a snowy night to save her lover; "Hidakagawa Iriaizakura" 日高川入相花王, a scene both comic and exciting in which a young woman's raging jealously transforms her into a demon serpent; the "Lion Dance" or "shishimai" 獅子舞, a puppet version of the dance performed frequently at festivals throughout Japan; "The Dance of Ebisu" or "Ebisumai" 恵比寿舞, a comic piece featuring the traditional fisherman deity; and "Keisei