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Jim's female voices

maniacal muppet

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What female characters did Jim Henson do the voices of on the Muppet Show? I am pretty sure that he did the voice of Rowlf's dancing partner during an at the dance sketch. Who else?:confused:
 

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maniacal muppet said:
What female characters did Jim Henson do the voices of on the Muppet Show? I am pretty sure that he did the voice of Rowlf's dancing partner during an at the dance sketch. Who else?:confused:
I believe he did Kermit's dance partner Mary Louise in one of the At The Dance sketches. Can't remember which episode that was, but I believe it was the first season. And he did the voice of the woman in the "I Feel Pretty" number after she morphed into a monster.

That's all I can think of right now.
 

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In an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, Jim Henson performed a woman named Amanda. He also performed a girl who encounted Beautiful Day Monster in Beautiful Day Monsters first skit on The Ed Sullivan Show.

In The Frog Prince, while he didn't perform any women, there was a scene where Kermit tried to sound like Taminella to trick Sweetums into letting Robin out of a cage while sleeping.

In the Twiggy episode, Jim Henson performed Kermit's dance partner, Mary Louise.

On Sesame Street, Jim Henson performed a woman named Grannie Fannie Nestlerode. He also performed Grandma Happy, who appeared in an early skit called HuntFor happiness.

I wonder why Jim Henson hardly performed any female voices. Could he have hated doing female voices? Could he have thought he wasn't very good at doing those voices?
 

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If your male It's really hard to do female characters, for me I had a female puppet that I did over a period of several Years. It got to the point that it hurt to do the voice, and If I was doing a Show or (childrens Church)service my voice was gone for the rest of the service. I eventually phased her out!

I know Frank Oz Stated that he didn't really like doing femal Voices!
 

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thanks

thanks for the info. I really just needed something tov help me remember:wink:
 
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