7/10 Jerry Nelson
7/16 Dave Goelz
[July] Karen Prell
9/17,Kevin Clash
9/23 Jim Henson
9/24 Steve Whitmire
9/30 Fran Brill
10/30 Joan Gantz Cooney
12/26 Caroll Spinney (menu falls after his birthday due to the Christmas menus, but will be mentioned on the forum that day)
Bill Barretta & Brian Henson's celebration menus are set to go, but will require more information. We are thinking of choosing an important day for them to be celebrated. Keep in mind these are "celebration" menus and no longer display "happy birthday" in the banner so it makes more sense. Locating some of these birthdays is tough to do and some want the dates withheld for privacy reasons. In such cases we will either place them on a significant day, an arbitrary one or somewhere around the suspected birthday.
We hope to celebrate everyone, but this is where we are starting. Can't hit them all this year. I have created 43 menus since the re-launch and have fulfilled my requirements for the rest of the year. You will see some new stuff and re-worked menus from last year. There will also be a bit of new work at Christmas.
Some of the performers I hope to include next year are Joe Raposo, Don Sahlin, Terry Angus, Louise Gold, Kathy Mullen and Jerry Juhl. I know some would like to add to the list, but it is all tentative. It can be a lot of work too.
There are also a few more holidays I would like to hit, but won't mention them here. There's more Muppety goodness coming but the gist of my work is complete for a while. However, you haven't seen it all yet.