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Well I think mine (which I've been building for about the last six and a half years) might just about count as "Muppet-Related", it's actually about my favourite musical-theatre performer, but as she did sing on TMS and in a couple of Muppet films..., see...

I said MARY Pickford not MARK Pickford. Did you mean Mark or Mary? Anyway as for Herbert Marshall, well: Herbert Marshall spent a chunk of his time WWII involved in running Unity Theatre, with Una Brandon-Jones. (Herbert Marshall's papers in the University Of Southern Illinois include some...

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

The Muppet's own Mermanesque brassey belter probably puppeteered it too. She also did Miss Ethel Mermaid singing "I Get A Kick Out Of U" on Sesame Street. On the latter she managed to end up creating a character that was a sort of cross between Ethel Merman and a certain contemporary British...

Ian McShane was in 'The Witches Of Eastwick' (stage show at Theatre Royal Drury Lane) with Maria Friedman Maria Friedman was in Merrily We Roll Along (stage show at The Leicester Haymarket) with Louise Gold. Louise Gold puppeteered on TMS on which Jim Henson performed Kermit The Frog...

I think one does have to be careful. The other thread around at the moment was specifically about "friends" of the muppeteers performing on Muppet productions (friends including family). So it was brought up in particular context. And I think some of us were trying to be a little vague...

There is a photograph in the book about the making of Dark Crystal which shows Jim Henson, Dave Goelz, and Louise Gold all pitching in as part of a the Cable Crew for Steve Whitmire's Skeksis! While in the book JH The Works, Kevin Clash tells a story about how one time he was being Puppet...

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...

James Vaughan, who's name appeared among the credits for Muppet Treasure Island, is a British actor who has made quite a lot of appearances on British TV (Daziel and Pascoe was one of the more recent ones). see: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0891049/ . As a good comedy singer-actor he's also one of...

Very true, - that also accounts for James Vaughan's MTI credit. Amongst many many other people's.

I think its important to notice that the thread asks which puppeteers have BEAUFITUFL singing voices. Now there are some singers who can be very impressive, but would you call their voices beautiful? There are also singers (and this is particularly true amongst the muppeteers) who may not be...

Sylinde, That's great! I've just listend to the track from the memorial service of Bring Him Home. - It's the first time I've read anywhere of Louise singing that song at the memorial service. But it so clearly is her singing! Even if you hadn't labelled it, I've recognised her at once...

Well when was Pig Calypso? I guess Louise was getting more experienced over time. From what I've read I thought Jim Henson usually expected his performers to be able to do both, if the possibly could. Certainly with TMS I've read that when he auditioned for Erin Ozker's replacement (i.e. when...

She often did both on TMS. It's just that what they usually seem to have done in the musical numbers was have her sing quite a dominant role, but when they filmed it, although she would puppeteer whatever character she was singing, that character wouldn't exactly be dominent movement-wise in the...

That isn't quite what I meant. Of course Louise Gold puppeteers a lot, even in her early days on TMS. Her character's are usually in the musical numbers (and with the notable exception of 'Carbon Paper' she puppeteers them. But it's noticeable that in those Season II and III shows her...

I think some of it, at least where Lips, Foo Foo, Rizzo, and Gaffer are concerned might be something to do with both how experienced their regular performers were at the time, and whether they were actually comfortable with speaking parts. How many of the "quiet" characters had regular...

Gwyneth Paltrow was in 'Shakespeare In Love' with Imelda Staunton Imelda staunton was in an NT revival of 'Guys And Dolls' with Julia McKenzie Julia McKenzie starred in her own TV special 'Julia And Company' which Louise Gold appeared in. Louise Gold puppeteered Annie Sue Pig on TMS with KTF...

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...

Even after they became known as puppeteers some of them still wanted to pursue their other careers. Fran Brill and Louise Gold have always carried on with their acting careers. In fact according to one newspaper interview, there were certainly occassions (the second season of Spitting Image is a...