I just had to write about Jim Henson and the Muppets. I watched the 1st season of Sesame Street when my room mates, who were education majors, kept taking about this strange show with puppets. I fell in love with the Muppets immediately. I love the Muppet Show and Fragel Rock, too.
I've always wanted to work on Sesame Street. Last year I traveled to Doylestown, PA to take Henson Workshops, with puppeteers worked with Jim Henson and on Sesame Street. It was great and really helped with a puppetry project I've been involved with for about 10 years. Some friends and I are working on a puppet show, "Anansi, the Spider and the Magi Rock". I got the meet the puppet maker who makes Miss Piggy's foam rubber legs. I attended a workshop given by the artist who designed the little fairy Muppet (what is her name?).
What to do...what to do? Go to school for puppetry or choose a major that has a job at the end of study? I can't quite justify getting a degree in puppety.
Oh by the way, the little pink fairy Muppet is named Abby Cadabby. Her arms are uniquely constructed so that she doesn't really have elbows : >
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