When songwriting legend Paul Williams met Muppets mastermind Jim Henson in 1976, after appearing on The Muppet Show, the fateful encounter led to a long and fruitful musical partnership, highlighted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas.” (Photo: Sony Home Pictures Entertainment/ The Jim Henson Company) The 53-minute film tells the ...

Editor's note: Due to multiple positive COVID-19 cases in the company and staff, New 42 announced that all remaining performances of "Jim Henson’s Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas" have been canceled.

The Jim Henson Company's 1977 special Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas, is getting an update from Flight of the Conchords’s Bret McKenzie! As Variety reports, McKenzie will write both the script and ...

Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas may not be the most famous holiday musical — or even really famous at all. The 1977 television Christmas special from Jim Henson is now probably best known for the ...

In 1977, Jim Henson produced a remarkable one-hour television special in Toronto for the Canadian Broadcast Corporation. Based on a book by Russell Hoban, a fantasy novelist and children’s writer, ...

Flight of the Conchords’ own Rhymenoceros, Bret McKenzie, has signed on to pen the script and write the music for “Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas,” based on the 1970s ABC special from the Jim Henson ...

If you're a child of the 1980s and grew up with HBO, you probably remember waiting — impatiently, we're sure — for the release of two Muppet-related holiday specials. Now, Gen Xers who loved "Emmet ...

Performances begin December 10 for the New York premiere of Jim Henson’s Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas at New Victory Theater. The show will run through January 2, 2022, with an opening set for ...