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Finding Nemo - live stage show at Disney World

By Teresa Plowright, About.com

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Finding Nemo - - puppets new-style

Photo courtesy of Walt Disney World.

The "Finding Nemo" live stage show uses the new style of puppets.

For all the main characters, a person (or several people -- with turtle above) carries the puppet, and is in plain sight.

Other puppets appear as well: fanciful sea creatures float across the stage or into the audience; held aloft on long poles, they billow and undulate in a way that totally suits the underseas.

People who've seen Disney's Broadway show, "The Lion King", will recognize the style: the puppets in "Finding Nemo" were designed by Michael Curry, who co-designed the character puppets in The Lion King.

By the way, the puppet Crush, above -- the cool sea turtle dude-- is a big guy, nearly the size of a Volkswagon.

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