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So that's the challenge, you have a big technical aspect of what you're doing whilst you're creatively trying to improvise.

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I was already sort of mixing my science physics enthusiasm with entertainment and directing and puppetry.

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We took a show to the Aspen Comedy Festival, called "Puppet Up" at that point, and in Aspen we just did three shows, and…

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So while you're trying to improvise, you're also trying to puppeteer, you're doing everything that you need to do to perform a puppet in…

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So it's Rosemary Clooney - Rosemary? Rosemary Clooney, right? The singer? Yes. Clooney, doing, singing, "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face," which is, you…

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And one of the funnest things was watching what they did before the director called action and after the director called cut. And they'd…

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There was a producer from the Aspen Comedy Festival who happened to be there, as a friend of a friend, and she said, "I'd like to book you into the Aspen Comedy Festival," and we said, "Well, there isn't really a show to book in, this is just a little showcase and it's really our workshop." And she said, "No,…

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We kind of lost a lot of that and puppeteers were sticking to the script and we thought everything needed to get a lot…

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We're also irreverent, we have an irreverent attitude towards puppets, as well. So a lot of what we do is we're kind of making…

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"Stuffed and Unstrung" started as a workshop, actually, classes within our company. We found that our puppeteers were not ad libbing as well as…

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I try to emulate his approach of really get the most out of people by allowing them to experiment and certainly allowing people to…

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I'd say that that is a challenge, but it also is, again, it's helpful. It's helpful to have the discipline of, okay, I'm doing, I'm doing something that's quite precise over here, working the puppet, and I'm doing something that's very imprecise and creative and unleashed over here, which is the comedy side. And it's kind of nice to allow…

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