When I was making it, I thought it would get used once and shucked. In a 2003 interview quoted by The New York Times, Lee said, “People still know about that shark. The popular bit, in which Chase’s ravenous shark meekly pretended to be offering Candygrams to unsuspecting victims including Gilda Radner, Laraine Newman and Jane Curtin, became a recurring and much-loved sketch during the early years of the NBC show. John the Divine.īut the Lee creation that reached the widest audience was no doubt the Land Shark, a Jaws-inspired Great White costume first worn by Chevy Chase in a 1975 Saturday Night Live sketch.
He was a longtime artist-in-residence at New York’s Cathedral of St. Over the years, Lee’s designs would not be confined to either streets or Off Broadway: His masks and puppets were featured on the stages of the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Joffrey Ballet and the Metropolitan Opera.
By the 1980s the parade relocated from the small Village sidestreets to the Avenue of the Americas, where it continues every year. The small gathering outside the West Village theater was an immediate success, even earning Lee an Obie Award. The parade – initially billed as a “pageant-parade” associated with the Off Off Broadway venue Theater for the New City – was created in part to spotlight Lee’s bizarre and lovely masks and puppets. Pyppeteer may delay for a while when you run your script for the first time because it needs some time to download the latest version of the Chromium browser. Ralph Lee with one of his creations at a Halloween event in 2007 Getty Images
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