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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...
...Cambridge police respond to the Brattle Square area after a merchant complains about a juggler in front of his store. Police arrive and the juggler ends his show...
Veteran street performer Mark Farneth refrains from criticizing the police. Instead, he pins blame on a fellow juggler. "A while ago, he fell off his unicycle and broke a window," Farneth says. He says the failure to clear up the matter quickly with the storeowner led to a crackdown on all street entertainment...
Although permits require street performers to shut down after 10 p.m., police typically allow jugglers, musicians and the like to stay as long as the crowds do. Tonight, the call about the juggler forces police to evict all the entertainers...