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The theme is "potluck," and the city's wonderful culture ties into that. Jeanne explained: "The parade. It's a potluck made up of all the things that people bring to it, and so what we're doing is making giant doors that will face the audience and the door will open to invite everyone in to the feast. That's what this parade does. It says, 'Yes, you can come.' The doors open and they turn into tables filled a feast and there's a space at the end that invites the audience to take a seat. Then there's also a lot of giant, fascinating characters because they represent all the people of New York who will sit down at these tables and enjoy this feast from a puppet perspective." She explained that 50 people in total made the large puppets, with one person making the eyes, another the nose, and so forth. Jeanne loves the symbolism of that and added: "So the puppets will be the strangers who were invited in, like Elijah is invited in, and they are made up of their characteristics [which] are made up of a jumble of the eyes and noses. So in other words, no one of these puppets is made by a single person. So the eyes are from one and [the] nose from another. And that way they represent everyone."
