while he had been hired as a performer, it didn’t take long for Juhl to realize that with Oz around, he had “some pretty high-powered” competition for performance time. Consequently, said Juhl, “I thought I’d better do something else if I’m going to make a living here.… We were getting more and more things that needed script material so I just sort of drifted slowly over to become a writer.” As it turned out, writing was Juhl’s true forte.