Ralph Lee Dies: New York Puppeteer & Mask-Maker Who Created 'SNL' Land Shark Was 87
His deathby the Westbeth Artists Housing and Center for the Arts, the Manhattan residential complex where he long resided. His wife Casey Compton told The New York Times that he had been in declining health for several months.
Among his other accomplishments, Lee is credited with having launched New York’s Greenwich Village Halloween Parade in 1974, an event that has grown to become one of the city’s largest and most cherished holiday events.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.
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. He was a longtime artist-in-residence at New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine.-inspired Great White costume first worn by Chevy Chase in a 1975 Saturday Night Live sketch.
In a 2003 interview quoted by The New York Times, Lee said, “People still know about that shark. For many people, it is my claim to fame. When I was making it, I thought it would get used once and shucked.”
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