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Brian Henson

I think it’s a lot richer than what we call fleshy improv, I think it’s very funny, puppet improv and fleshy improv.
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Fleshly Improx Puppets Thinking
So it’s Rosemary Clooney – Rosemary? Rosemary Clooney, right? The singer? Yes. Clooney, doing, singing. “
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Blonde Singing Song
This is certainly the raunchiest, if you use that word, raunchy. The roots of Jim Henson, though, was adult comedy.
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Adults Certain Roots Use
But the fact that most of the show you can’t be prepared for, you have no idea really what’s coming is initially very nerve wracking, by now, it’s kind of fun.
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Fun Ideas Nerves
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 your brain to be doing those two things at once.
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Comedy Imprecise Quite Side Working
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Groups Made People
I have nothing really prepared,” and actually I say that, the show is not all improvising.
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Improvising Prepare Showing
We wanted to premiere it in New York, because New York is sort of the home of the Jim Henson Company and it’s sort of the tone and flavor, always, of the puppet work that we’ve done traditionally. And that’s what brought us here and now we’re here.
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Country Done Home People
Oh, well, I can’t tell you; it would be telling you the end. It’s a one-character lip-syncing because in the early days, that’s what my dad was doing.
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Character Dad Lip Syncing
To anyone who’s trying to be an artist, in any medium, it’s a very odd and lonely and nerve-wracking and scary process when you let anybody see what you’re working on.
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Artist Lonely Odd People Wracking
I had a plan, but then I work with an army of great artists and I want all of them to create inside that creation.”
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Created Creation Inside Lan
And with puppets, especially in our company, we sort of demand a very high standard of puppetry, so it’s a real technical skill.
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High Real Skills Standards
he puppeteers really responded to it. Patrick Bistrow really responded to it, it’s great fun to do improve comedy with puppets.
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Comedy Fun Puppets
My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story.
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Dad Mom Stories
There’s an awful lot of scenes where we don’t know what the scene’s going to be about, we ask the audience, pick a place that the scene is happening, pick the relationship, tell us who they are, things like that.
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Audience Awful Scene
It’s actually good when the performers are nervous, because it kind of sharpens up your brain and a little bit of adrenaline is good. Initially it’s really tough.
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Brain Littles Tough

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