| Marney is not your ordinary run of the mill creature of the night. Growing up in the cozy suburbs of Pennsylvania, Marney had higher aspirations than his batty buddies. He longed for a life in baseball! Unfortunately, Marney suffers from a rare form of allergy to sunlight. Soon though, destiny showed him where his true calling was, while visiting relatives in Las Vegas. "It vas during Vayne Newton's opening act", he recalls, "a tewible stand up comedian took the stage, then vouldn't give it back! I heckled him until his blood boiled, then I bit him. ...I like my drinks varm, you know... The audience loved me for it. I vas a smash, as they say in the biz! Next think I know, I have an agent, and a team of writers writing me a comedy routine!" He shrugs his huge vings - er, wings shyly, "The rest, is history." Though Marney continues to struggle on the nightclub circuit, he has been taking voice lessons to help him get rid of an abuse of the letter 'V', and to expand his career into musicals. He collaborated with Andrew Floyd Webber (Andrew Lloyd's less expensive brother) on a short lived off-Broadway musical called "Bats", based on his attempts to get into the big league, but it closed three days later. As one critic put it, "It drains the life out of you!" Marney is preparing a new comedy routine for Halloween, with his eye on a special for HBO, and a series with his brother Murray he hopes to call "Blood Brothers". |
Marney the Vampire
| Besides having loads of personality, Marney has an easy to move mouth made of plastic for effortless lip sync. Marney is made of ½” Grey Polyfoam (Henson lingo - Scott foam) with short Grey fur fabric that is both machine and hand sewn with a crop of light grey long hair fur on the top of his head. The teeth are molded from Fimo clay. He is 17” tall from the top of the head to the bottom of the body. The wing span is 42”. The arm wires are 6 ½” with dowels for great wing and arm control. Marney also has set of legs for Ventriloquists. |