Chia Steiner(ph), who came to the mall with her two young children to see a puppet show, agreed.
Discussing the political turmoil last week, Nawaz Sharif said he would not become a part of the "puppet show".
Last year, the highly popular "Wicked" was bested by "Avenue Q, " a plucky little puppet show that moved from off-Broadway.
Sami Fehri, a Tunisian producer of a political puppet show, was imprisoned for corruption charges, and Saudi blogger Raif Badawi was jailed last year for mocking religious figures.
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They have created, for example, an educational puppet show, illustrating, among other horrors, the dangers of distilling alcohol when there are elephants about: they are boozers as well as gourmands.
The most biting of all was "Spitting Image, " a satirical puppet show broadcast on Sunday evenings on ITV from 1984 until 1996 that pilloried public figures, especially Thatcher, whom the program often portrayed as an insane megalomaniac.
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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.
The musical is a series of truly vivants tableaux part pageant, part puppet show, part parade, with a touch of Las Vegas revue thrown in telling the story of Simba, a princely lion cub who loses his kingdom, goes into exile, and returns to claim his inheritance from his epicene, malevolent Uncle Scar, a pooftah in the pride.
Faizaan Peerzada, COO of Rafi Peer Theater Workshop in Lehore, the local puppet group that developed the show with Sesame Workshop, denied the corruption allegations.
Mr Leung has made some effort to show he is not a puppet of the Chinese government.
Three to five masters manipulate the ropes controlling a single puppet as musicians provide accompaniment to the elaborate show.
"He's just trying to show that he is not a puppet, " he said.
The Sooty puppet used by Matthew Corbett in his last stage show is to be sold for charity in Dorset.
Yassir Arafat himself was portrayed by a popular television show as a sweet, peace loving sock puppet who only wanted to make peace with the craven, war mongering Netanyahu.
The Smithsonian already had a Kermit puppet from the "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show" era.
"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.
The council needs to show independent strength if it is not to be perceived by Iraqis as a puppet of outside forces.
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