Chia Steiner(ph), who came to the mall with her two young children to see a puppet show, agreed.

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Song, a Beijing film student continuing her schooling in Paris, videotapes Simon, to his delight, while Suzanne, who is working on a puppet show, is trying to toss out her nonpaying tenant, a screenwriter friend, to make room for her older daughter, who is arriving from Brussels.

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Last year, the highly popular "Wicked" was bested by "Avenue Q, " a plucky little puppet show that moved from off-Broadway.

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"He's just trying to show that he is not a puppet, " he said.

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Three to five masters manipulate the ropes controlling a single puppet as musicians provide accompaniment to the elaborate show.

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The Smithsonian already had a Kermit puppet from the "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show" era.

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"We all live in Mr Punch's shadow and what a strange shadow it is, " laughs Mervyn Millar, UK director of Handspring - the puppet company behind War Horse, which is soon to unveil a new show Crow based on the poems of Ted Hughes.

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