Performances
Trusty himself and 8 other performers ride the bike around Chicago, stopping at strategic corners to climb inside the box. Each performance lasts 2 to 4 hours and consists of several different puppets with an animal theme. The puppets generally dance to various kinds of music and interact with each other in other ways. The puppets also interact with the audiences, waving to people, giving high fives, and sometimes popping out from a small door at waist height to gesture towards the tip box.
Performers work for tips only (generally placed in a locked box attached to the front of the enclosed staging area).
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Famous quotes containing the word performances:
“At one of the later performances you asked why they called it a “miracle,”
Since nothing ever happened. That, of course, was the miracle
But you wanted to know why so much action took on so much life
And still managed to remain itself, aloof, smiling and courteous.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“This play holds the season’s record [for early closing], thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence it ran just five performances too many.”
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