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Sesame Street Season 45 premieres Monday September 15

Muppets star in Toyota Super Bowl ad campaign

"Lady Gaga & The Muppets' Holiday Spectacular" airs Thanksgiving

Frank Oz, Brian Jay Jones honor Jim Henson on The Today Show October 15

Muppet tech master and puppeteer Franz "Faz" Fazakas dies at 95

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MERCHANDISE

"The Great Muppet Caper" and "Muppet Treasure Island" coming to Blu-ray December 10

"Jim Henson: The Biography" releases on September 24

"The Muppet Movie" anniversary edition arrives on Blu-ray

Video: "The Muppet Movie" coming to Blu-ray in 2013

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Maryland honors Jim Henson for his 70th birthday

Jane Henson and Bob Payne will host a "Sam and Friends" panel and show a new compilation of early Muppet material

Courtesy of The Washington Post
September 21, 2006

Tomorrow, the University of Maryland will pay tribute to beloved alum Jim Henson, who would have turned 70 on Sunday. In a nod to his "Creativity and Other Inspirational Stuff," the university will unveil an exhibition and new film collection, stage a theater performance -- and host a panel with Jane Henson, the puppeteer's widow.

The highlights: "Jim Henson: Performing Artist," a long-term exhibit looking at Henson's career through photography, essays, videos and displays of his Muppets (including Scred, who was used in a regular skit in the very first season of "Saturday Night Live"), opens at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center's Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library. While at the library (or at any other library on campus, for that matter), you can also check out the brand new Jim Henson Film and Television Collection. Free. 9 a.m. Through June 2007.

At 3 p.m. in the arts center's Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Jane Henson's the guest speaker in the free panel discussion "Jane and Friends: The College Park Legacy." Henson, who met her husband on the U-Md. campus, will offer the first screening of the new video "The Story of Sam and Friends" and talk about Jim Henson's local roots and legacy. Other panelists include Edward Longley, who taught the U-Md. puppetry class where the couple met, and Bobby Payne, who helped build and performed in "The Dark Crystal." Free.

Finally, puppeteers Blair Thomas & Company (Thomas has taught at the distinguished School of the Art Institute of Chicago) perform "The Ox-Herder's Tale," a drama about seeking spirituality in a consumer culture, with a stilt-walker, clowns and masked puppeteers. Afterward, stick around for a talk with the artists. $30; students $7. 8 p.m. tonight and tomorrow. Kay Theatre, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. University Boulevard and Stadium Drive, University of Maryland, College Park. 301-405-2787 or www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu.

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   MORE HENSON NEWS

Jerry Nelson tribute at The Moving Image Museum October 27
Jim Henson's Pajanimals debuts on NBC Kids Saturday July 7
The New York Pops play The Muppets at Carnegie Hall April 14
Henson announces "Sid the Science Kid: The Movie" in 3-D
The Jim Henson Company Puppets to perform at the 2011 Grammys
"Pioneers of Television" special to honor Jim Henson
Classic "Henson's Place" special arrives on DVD August 3
Frank Oz unveils tribute to the "Henson Pipes" at NBC Studios

 

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