Gonzo the Great on the Creativity and Collaboration Behind Jim Henson’s Muppets

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🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In the early 1970s, Dave Goelz was an industrial designer working for Hewlett-Packard by day and obsessing over the puppets on Sesame Street in his spare time. Fifty years later, Goelz still has the dream job he left Silicon Valley to pursue. He’s the Muppet performer bringing life to Gonzo, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Waldolf, Zoot and others. We’ll talk about the creative alchemy of Jim Henson’s Muppet universe with Goelz as well as Henson’s biographer and the curator of Imagination Unlimited, an exhibit about Henson which opens this week at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.9	A new show is coming to the contemporary Jewish Museum this week, and it's all about Muppets.
0:54.6	The Jim Henson exhibition, Imagination Unlimited, opens Friday, and it's all about Muppets. The Jim Henson exhibition,
1:00.2	Imagination Unlimited, opens Friday and explores the array of characters that sprang forth from Henson's band of weirdos. In 1978, Kermit, Miss Piggy Gonzo, and all the rest were seen
1:06.7	by 235 million people each week.
1:13.1	What made them so popular and irreplaceable?
1:15.6	We'll talk with Dave Goals, who performs Gonzo,
1:17.2	as well as the curator of the show,
1:18.3	and Henson's biographer,
1:20.7	about the legacy of these furry friends.
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