More than 40 years after it first warmed television audiences’ hearts, “Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas” is charming viewers of all ages all over again, this time on the New York City stage. “Jim ...

The Muppets had Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem and the citizens of Sesame Street had resident crooner Bob McGrath... but only Frogtown Hollow had a genuine jubilee jug band. That's the location of ...

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 ...

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, ...

Q: Years ago, on ABC we think, Jim Henson of the Muppets made an animated Christmas special set in a swamp with beavers. The title was something about a “jug town band.” We loved the story, the ...

Fans have extolled the virtues of Jim Henson's adaptation of Russell and Lillian Hoban's book over generations, broadening awareness so much that in recent years there have been special edition DVDs, ...

While Muppets projects have come and gone with regular consistency since Jim Henson first created the puppet ensemble in the ’50s, this year saw the revival of one of Henson’s other beloved works, ...

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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.

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 ...