DARCI: Yeah. Every friend that I have with me, their personalities and characters are still evolving. Each time I perform, there’s just these little quirks and things that go along with them that make up their character and make up who they are. Oh, and I’m practicing new songs and some new funny bits that I’m going to do with them soon. And they’re pretty excited for that.

Q: Do you feel like as you perform more and more that you’re sort of developing more of your puppets’ character? Do you feel like as a performer, the more time you spend with them, do you feel like they’re more real to you?

Q: Obviously, going to the Grand Ole Opry was a highlight, meeting Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman was definitely a highlight. Do you have anything that’s really hilarious that’s happened to you yet?

DARCI: Yes, but it wasn’t in Nashville. It was in Massachusetts, I think. Bedford, Massachusetts. This is one of our first five or so shows. I had to change into my outfit for the first half of the show because it was getting close to the show. I went into the dressing room, and this theater was beautiful. It’s very pretty, but it’s older than some of the other theaters that we’ve performed in. So, the doors to the dressing rooms were, like, sketchy. I closed it and I locked it because I didn’t want anybody to come in. So, I changed and when I got done and went to the door to open it so people could come in, I couldn’t get it open! I unlocked it, and I thought I unlocked it all the way. But I didn’t, because I didn’t know it could go more. … There was this huge, gigantic fan in the hallway because it was really hot down there, and I was banging on the door for five minutes.

I was yelling out band member names. I was like, ‘Help, please, I can’t get out!’ … The production manager had to come over and try to sort of pry it open. And then I unlocked it and they opened the door and I was like, ‘Oh.’ (laughs)

Q: Have you been meeting a lot of young ventriloquists on the road?