LIVE PERFORMANCES
LIVE PERFORMANCES
RED FRAGGLE AT SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON
Live Puppet Performance, San Diego (2010)
Performed Red Fraggle in front of a live audience of Fraggle fans along with host / musician / actor / podcaster Grant Baciocco to promote the return of the original Fraggle Rock TV series to cable television on the new channel The Hub. Official Jim Henson Company podcast here.
photo © Suzanne Chiasson
JIM HENSON’S MUSICAL WORLD at CARNEGIE HALL with THE NEW YORK POPS
Live Puppet Performance, New York (2012)
Performed Red Fraggle, appearing for the first time in decades with fellow Fraggles Wembley and Travelling Matt as part of a live concert honoring the musical legacy of Jim Henson, featuring puppet characters from Fraggle Rock, The Muppet Show, Sesame Street and Emmett Otter’s Jugband Christmas. Sang with host John Tartaglia, Paul Williams, the human cast of Sesame Street, and Essential Voices chorus accompanied by The New York Pops.
QUOTE-AND-SING-ALONG LABYRINTH AT SIFF CINEMA
Live Appearance, Seattle (2010)
Appeared at screenings of Labyrinth at SIFF Cinema in Seattle along with Toby Froud, who played the baby in the movie. Showed the sock-puppet bedecked audience members some puppet performance moves to use during the interactive screening, helped some audience volunteers act out some of the talking hand faces seen in the Shaft of Hands and answered questions about working on the movie.
RED FRAGGLE AT MELTDOWN COMICS
Live Puppet Performance, Los Angeles (2010)
Performed Red Fraggle with Grant Baciocco at Meltdown Comics in LA for Free Comics Day to promote Archaia’s release of the first in a series of Fraggle Rock comic books created by popular comic book writers and artists who are fans of the original series. There are several YouTube videos of this event. Official Jim Henson Company podcast here.
RED FRAGGLE AT KITSON CELEBRITY EVENT
Live Puppet Performance, Los Angeles (2009)
Performed Red Fraggle meeting celebrities that included Paris and Nicky Hilton, Carmen Electra, Ziggy Marley and Allison Janney for a merchandise launch and charity event at Kitson in Hollywood
RED FRAGGLE AT SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON
Live Puppet Performance, San Diego (2008)
Performed Red Fraggle for the character’s first ever public appearance in front of a live audience of Fraggle fans. Lead the audience in singing Fraggle tongue-twister songs and, along with host Grant Baciocco and Boober / Travelling Matt puppeteer Dave Goelz, promoted the Fraggle Rock Complete Series DVD set. There are several YouTube videos of this event. The official Jim Henson Company has podcasts of this event here and here
MACY’S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE
Live Parade / Television puppetry, New York (NBC 1980 and 2002)
Performed various Muppets on the Sesame Street float in the famous holiday parade through New York City that ends with a live broadcast performance in front of Macy’s department store
AN EVENING WITH THE MUPPETS
Live Theatrical Muppet Show, Los Angeles (The Jim Henson Company 2001)
Performed chickens and other Muppet characters in this first ever live stage version of the original Muppet Show with veteran Muppet Show puppeteers at the Hollywood Palace Theater. Worked with Paul Williams, Brooke Shields and Jon Voight.