If you take a character and you call him a frog, or like Rowlf, our dog, call him a dog, you immediately give the audience a handle.
I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.
I think my own strengths are in television production.
I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.
It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.