... and Elite Syncopa tions, among other works He also recently danced in the guise of Miss Piggy with Rudolf Nureyev in The Muppet Show Born in Bol ton, he trained with two local schools before being accepted by the Royal Ballet School in 1 963 ...

... as children is an uphill task for any per former and especially for one who has been associated with that cult craze The Muppet Show. All too often, the attempt to appear grown-up means ill-digested surrea lism or a plethora of blue jokes. But, feet ...

... troupe ot perlormers, seen as real people (but how real?) in a kitchen taken straight out of the mad Scandinavian chef of The Muppet Show and onstage in a significant revue at the Pheasant Pluckers' Ball. The trouble was that the funny bits, such as the ...

... whole string of other world figures cavorting to Richard Attree's splendidly ethereal music. The best of these are the almost Muppet-like sea creatures of the Full Fathom Five underwater sequence, and the huge stilt-walking repre sentatives of good and evil ...

... Black Theatre Puppets, musical spe ciality Tyne and Wear and chanteuse, Toni Morrell. Bulbeck once worked on Jim Henson's Muppets, and it shows; his characters have that same fantastic appeal as, picked up by u.v. lighting, they float against their black ...

... sounds good. Which leaves the plant: Martin j Anthony (operator) and Mel Taylor (voice). How perfectly they made this nightmare Muppet comic and horrific. B. R. Martin ...

... Durham-Matthews and Janet Spencer Turner show outstanding flair for farce, and there is a scene-stealing debut by Coco, a Muppet-like poodle, surely a star in the making. Nick Smurthwaite ...

... means the stage is strewn with cabbage leaves and adorned by a stuffed pig. The action spills into the auditorium in ncar-Muppet Show fashion when two characters take up seats in one of the boxes to watch players perform Hamlet in a brief play-within-the-play ...

... Personality in 1970. Robbins also boasted a number of film credits, starring in The Whispers, Looking Glass War, Zeppelin and The Muppet Capers. He twice appeared in Blake Edwards comedies, including Victor Victoria, and as a drag queen in The Pink Panther Strikes ...

... are a cut above your average puppet act. A mix of animated characters and actors sending up everything from adverts to the Muppets. Some of the more obscure themes were probably lost along the way, but this type of act is usually granted a bit more artistic ...

... and I Want Your Love. During the latter, the percussionist began to resemble legendary seventies drummer Animal from the Muppets, belting his cymbals so hard that they fell from the plinth how delightful. While the scintillating bass playing of Rodgers' ...