It felt pretty boisterous tonight too.

It felt like falling back into old rhythms. Maybe it was less comfortable for some of the people onstage.

Tell us about the particular responsibilities of looking after a cast made of foam and felt.

They get zhuzhed every show. Their hair is constantly being done. Kate has a human hair wig that has to be styled. Rod has a glue mix in his hair that has to be redone once in a while.

On a daily basis, you’ll often use an eraser on the whites of their eyes. And you want to make sure that the actual pupils aren’t getting scuffed at all because they won’t be as bright to the audience.

Anything to combat the smelliness that presumably creeps in?

There’s a spray that we use, but there’s not a lot you can do about it. You cannot wash their insides. That’s the hard part. We are probably the biggest users of Purell in the Northern Hemisphere.

I obviously have to ask you what the puppets get up to backstage.

Oh god, what am I allowed to say?

Well, I can say that there have been so many moments when a person who was down would have a puppet come up behind them and just give them a hug.

But puppets can say things humans cannot. (Laughs.) There’s new harassment rules now that weren’t in place way back when we started.