![]() ![]() “The entire production is the exact replica of the Rankin and Bass claymation special that so many people know and love, and the script is the same, the characters the same, and the puppets were actually modeled completely after the claymation special. What to expect at the Center’s 11th annual performance of ‘Rudolph’: Johnny Marks was a Jewish man and a very successful songwriter who wrote so many of our Christmas classics.” And so also, Johnny Marks, the songwriter, who was the brother-in-law of Robert May, married into this ‘Rudolph family’ and took it on himself as well. And so this story of the founding of, or the creation of Rudolph, brings together a lot of Jewish history in the creation of popular culture for Christmas. “It’s funny because so many of our Christmas creators actually are Jewish. “That book was written by Robert May, who worked for their advertising team, and he worked very hard throughout the whole year on this story of Rudolph, who was a character that ended up having a lot of personal meaning to him,” Dylla explained, “Because it was the year that his wife was very sick and passed away, and the story became a kind of coping mechanism for him and his daughter.” ![]() “They’re there every year on your ugly sweater or at your grocery store over the radio, but Rudolph as a character was actually born in the late 1930s as part of a project to create a give-away book for the holidays for children, that the department store would give away every year.” They just, kind of, are there,” said Dylla. “We don’t often think about our favorite holiday characters as having an origin story. ![]()
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