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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The puppet cast of Jim Henson's popular 1977 Christmas special, Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas. (Photo: Sony Home Pictures ...

As holiday specials go, EMMET OTTER’S JUG-BAND CHRISTMAS doesn’t have the name recognition, branding or merchandizing as other colossal hits like HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS or A CHARLIE BROWN ...

Starring Vivian Bayubay McLaughlin as Mrs. Alice "Ma" Otter (From Disney's Out of the Box and Sesame English). This production will feature puppets designed and created by the Jim Henson Company.

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 ...

A heart-warming new musical based on the beloved holiday T.V. special by Jim Henson is making it’s way to Open Stage Harrisburg! “Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas” opens November 22nd and performers ...

Production Photos Check Out Photos From Jim Henson’s Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas The family-friendly musical, based on the 1977 television special, features a mix of costumed characters and ...

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Sometimes you just need a hug, which makes the timing right for "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas," a new feel-better tuner that serves as theatrical comfort food for our increasingly desperate times.

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, ...

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 ...