Word: jugglers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Theme-park actors do not, to be sure, make much use of training in Shakespeare or Method-style character analysis. But they say acting study helps nonetheless. Kevin Kraft, 22, is a University of Southern California junior in his second summer as a clown and juggler at Hersheypark; he has also toured with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Says Kraft: "If I pretend in slow motion to grab for a nonexistent ball, I'd better have a real intention to catch it, which is acting technique, or the comedy falls flat...
...performers don't even know each other," said Alexander Feldman, a local juggler, adding that not having to refer to someone as "the guy with the long hair who plays guitar" would improve relations among the artists...