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Are there any You Tube Sesame fans out there who are good at spotting which way round a puppet is being performed (left or right handed)? Because if so I'd appreciate your help (my internet connection isn't fast enough). Someone told me they were recently watching some Sesame Street clips on...

Just wanted to post a note acknowledging TMS's real Bandleader Jack Parnell's birthday tomorrow (Monday).

For those of you who like Louise Gold's singing voice, you may like to know that three of her finest musical theatre recordings: 'Nunsense' (, 'Stop The World I Want To Get Off,' and the truly fantastic 'Anything Goes' are now available on itunes. As are 'Cabaret' and 'On The Town' You can...

I know the recent death of the lyricist and writer Dick Vosburgh doesn't have much to do with The Muppets. (Although, thanks to his work with the Discovering Lost Musicals Charitable Trust, he did managed to get himself mentioned in one of the Tibby's Bowl/Muppet Central Interviews) But I...

Just wondering, Which of the puppeteers on Sesame Street puppeteer left-handed. We know that on other muppet productions there's: Terry Angus, Richard Coombs, and, Mike Quinn On Sesame, so far all I've got is: Jerry Nelson breifly for about a year or two in the mid 1970s (due to...

I remember in about 1998 watching this skit, about Al who runs an Alphabet garage, getting letters ready for the road. A lady (female Anything Muppet) comes in with a J that won't jump. It will jog, jiggle and play jazz, but it won't jump. So Al gives it a "jump start". Which makes it jump all...

Okay I got a challenge for you guys concerning Sesame Street in the early 1990s. Probably around Season's 22 to 27 or Episodes 2876 to 3525. Which songs and sketches did Louise Gold perform in. And can we identify which episodes those songs/sketches were originally aired in? So far I've...

I've been doing a little search of the old newsgroups, and unearthed a thread about Jim Henson's memorial Service, http://groups.google.co.uk/group/rec.arts.henson+muppets/browse_thread/thread/2f01ecf71fe75601/b0d55ff922443028?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1&hl=en#b0d55ff922443028 In the thread, Gabe Velez...

I wonder who here remembers Roland Rat's BBC TV Series, back in 1986 and 1988. I have been looking into the interesting matter of who actually were "The RatCrew" on Roland Rat's BBC Series; and which characters did which members of the RatCrew perform. So far the list I've got reads...

I have recently been browsing the Muppet WIKI section on Mopatop's shop. Having never before paid much attention to that programme. From the WIKI, I learn that there were four series. Now I know that Louise Gold puppeteered some of the customers etc on Season 2. But what I am wondering is...

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If anyone is interested the Joseph Papp film of The Pirates Of Penzance is being screened on ITV3 tomorrow (Sunday). I believe this film is also available on DVD. Also I notice that the long forgotten British film Billy The Kid And The Green Baize Vampire has recently been released on DVD...

If anyone is interested I recently updated my fansite about Louise Gold, to include a section on the Side By Side By Sondheim 30th Anniversary Gala, on the 21 May 2006. The actual 'Stars' of the show were: Millicent Martin, David Kernan & Julia McKenzie. But other performers included...

Some of you might be interested in knowing this Sunday (16 April 2006) at 5pm GMT(with repeats for nearly a week after at 2pm GMT and 10pm GMT), on his show on Internet Theatre Radio, http://www.theatreradio.co.uk/ Tim McArthur will be interviewing Louise Gold. Unfortunately my current...

Last Sunday (9 April) at 9pm on BBC 1 there was a documentary (first of a two part series) 'The Queen At 80' , they had some clips from the Queen's Jubilee in 2002, particularly from the pop concert 'Party At The Palace'. In one of these clips I couldn't help noticing one gentleman on the stage...

I've just been going through the credits for various Muppet films, and have noticed the following: MCC had a unit nurse named Amy Medical MTI had a carpenter named Paul Carpenter. Just had to share this bit of triva. Emma

If anyone is interested, Louise Gold is joining the cast of the West End production of Mary Poppins quite soon. possibly 10 April. She is replacing Rosemary Ash in the somewhat minor, rather nasty role of Miss Andrews. - she seems to be making a habit of playing villainesses, Last year she...

In case anyone who is interested in this didn't already know about it, I thought I'd post the info here. Appearently Louise Gold is scheduled to bring Lauderdale House (in Highgate, London)'s current cabaret season to it's "Grand Finale" this sunday. If anyone is interested see her cabaret...

I have been pondering the question, opn the number Happy Feet, which was sung by Kermit The Frog and a Frog Chorus in the Madeline Kahn episode of TMS, who out of the available puppeteers are singing in the 'Frog Chorus' accompanying Jim Henson's Kermit? I know that the episode occurs quite...

If anyone (especially amongst those who are also into Musicals) is interested, I see that the latest PRINTED edition of Musical Stages magazine (see: http://www.dresscircle.co.uk/product.asp?StockID=13110 or possibly http://www.musicalstages.co.uk/ ) has an interview (by editor Lynda Trapnell)...