PART OF MUSEUM OF MOVING IMAGE’S CELEBRATION OF JIM HENSON’S 90th BIRTHDAY
– Two Performances Only –
Thursday, September 24, 2026, at 7:00PM
Friday, September 25, 2026, at 7:00PM
NEW YORK, Sept. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Tickets are on sale now to see “Jim Henson’s Harmonious Hoopla” – a madcap musical revue featuring the songs you know and love from your favorite worlds of Jim Henson. With music from Fraggle Rock, Labyrinth, Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas, and more, this special tribute will be performed on two nights only: Thursday, September 24th, and Friday, September 25th, as part of Museum of Moving Image’s celebration of Jim Henson’s 90th birthday. Tickets are available now at movingimage.org, and MoMI members receive discounted tickets.
From The Jim Henson Company and Heather Henson, “Jim Henson’s Harmonious Hoopla” stars Henson performers Jordan Brownlee (television: Slumberkins; stage: Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas), Aymee Garcia (television: Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock; stage: Wicked, Into the Woods), and Leslie Carrara-Rudolph (television: Muppets Tonight, stage: Puppet Up!, Wake Up Your Weird) as they perform memorable and iconic songs from the legacy of Jim Henson with a live band, puppets from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, and a lot of fun. With songs from Jim Henson’s best-known films, as well as the theme songs and favorites from his television classics, and with a few surprises along the way, it is sure to be a joyful evening for fans of all ages that is not to be missed.
“Jim Henson’s Harmonious Hoopla” is from The Jim Henson Company and Heather Henson. The show is directed by John Tartaglia (television: Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock; stage: Avenue Q, Shrek the Musical) and produced by Brenna Ross (stage: Ajijaak on Turtle Island, Green Feather Foundation), with musical direction from Paul Rudolph (television: Sesame Street, Julie’s Greenroom).
About The Jim Henson Company
The Jim Henson Company has remained an established leader in family entertainment for over 70 years and is recognized as an innovator in puppetry, animatronics, and digital animation. The Company’s most recent credits include the Amazon Kids+ series Jim Henson’s Monster Dance, the PBS KIDS special Wowsabout, the hit holiday special for Apple TV The First Snow of Fraggle Rock, and the Emmy-nominated Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip for Disney+, as well as the Oscar®-winning Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio for Netflix, and the Emmy®-winning Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock for Apple TV. Other television credits include Slumberkins and Harriet the Spy for Apple TV; Dinosaur Train, Splash and Bubbles, and Sid the Science Kid all for PBS; Earth to Ned for Disney+; and the Netflix series Word Party and the Emmy-winning The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. Iconic catalogue titles include Fraggle Rock, The Storyteller, Farscape, and the ground-breaking fantasy classics The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.
Headquartered in Los Angeles with additional locations in New York and London, the Company is also home to Jim Henson’s Creature Shop™, a pre-eminent puppet and creature-building group and industry leader in puppeteered digital animation, with international film, television, theme park, and advertising clients.
About Heather Henson
Heather Henson is a producer, puppet artist, and creative steward whose work centers on connection—to one another, to the natural world, and to the sense of wonder she grew up with through the Muppets. Through the Green Feather Foundation, she creates environmental puppet theater and fosters independent artists through Handmade Puppet Dreams, the Puppet Slam Network, and the Jim Henson Carriage House, where new puppet works are developed in collaboration with the Jim Henson Foundation. Her philanthropic and investment work supports Indigenous communities, environmental stewardship, regenerative initiatives, and creative projects that help build a more connected and sustainable world. Heather is President of the Jane Henson Foundation, Chair of the Jim Henson Legacy, and a shareholder and board member of The Jim Henson Company.
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