When songwriting legend Paul Williams met Muppets mastermind Jim Henson in 1976, after appearing on The Muppet Show, the fateful encounter led to a long and fruitful musical partnership, highlighted ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas may not be the most famous holiday musical — or even really famous at all. The 1977 television Christmas special from Jim Henson is now probably best known for the ...

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 ...

The Academy Award Winning songwriter and comedian is back working with the Henson Company. While Muppets projects have come and gone with regular consistency since Jim Henson first created the puppet ...

Oz claims that he's been forced into retirement by the current powers that be that control the Muppets and Sesame Street, ...