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Do you think that maybe ice skating might be different from roller skating? Caroll Spinney has said in his book that he performed Big Bird and Bruno while rollerskating. In fact, he first rollerskated while performing a costume character back when he was on the Boston varsion of Bozo's Big...

Has anybody noticed that at the beginning, Big Bird never talks but the other muppets do talk? I think that you can also tell that a different Big Bird costume is used for the opening sequence. Big Bird looks a lot lighter when ice skating then he does in the rest of the special (probably so he...

I feel like I am 96 percent sure that Caroll Spinney did perform Big Bird. I know that he's performed Big Bird in parades before, for at least an hour, so I'm sure that he's capable of performing Big Bird non-stop for two hours, but I'm not sure if a freelance puppeteer would be able to manage...

Would that mean that the voice actors also worked a glove that would radio controll the mouths, or would there be an additional puppeteer for that, making Miss Finch and the Dodos performed by three people each (with one performer not being given credit for the performance, as Miss Finch and the...