It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights as THE MUPPETS bring their musical extravaganza to London for the First Time Ever
It's time to play the
music, it's time to light the lights…..
The Muppets Take The O2
Saturday 14 July (Matinee & Evening performance)
The Muppets bring their musical extravaganza to
Europe for the First Time Ever
Musical performances, sketches, celebrity guests and more at The O2
Yaaaaaaayyyyyyy!
The
Muppets
announce their most
sensational, inspirational, celebrational, muppetational, full-length
live show for the first time ever in Europe!
Inspired by their hit 1980s variety TV show The Muppet Show, this magical event
will be headlined by Kermit The Frog,
leading an all-star cast of pigs, bears and whatevers in….
The Muppets Take The O2
Live
on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 July, The Muppets will be lighting up The O2 for 2 evenings and 1 matinee, so
everyone can share in the mayhem, the music and laughter of a one-of-a-kind
live Muppet performance!
Following a hugely successful trio of sell-out
shows at the Hollywood Bowl last year, this exclusive European show is the
first time The Muppets have ever
performed their full live extravaganza outside of the USA. The O2 will become a place where
Muppets and humans can come together to share a special connection.
“We’re
thrilled to bring this first time ever live performance to all our fans in the
UK,” says Kermit, “There’ll be music, comedy, incredible
surprises, plus total and complete chaos. In other words: It’s the Muppets!
Yaaaay!
“We’ve wanted to do a show like this for a
long time, and now—after finally getting all Miss Piggy’s luggage through
customs -- we have the chance to appear live at The O2 arena!”
Miss
Piggy
adds, “I can’t wait to be there to
entertain, astonish, dazzle and otherwise gobsmack all moi’s fabulous fans!
Wear socks, sweetie, cause I’m gonna knock ‘em off. I will amaze everyone with this first-ever
live performance....and, of course, for the official renaming of ‘The MOI 2’ arena.”
STATLER: “This is gonna be the ultimate
‘Don’t Miss It’ event....”
Kermit and the ultimate diva herself - Miss
Piggy will be joined by very special
celebrity guests for musical performances, sketches and more. Highlights of the show include the fabulous Miss Piggy in a show-stopping musical extravaganza,
a rocking musical jam by The Muppets’ legendary house band Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem, with legendary drummer Animal. Plus the debut of all-new original chapters of
those classic Muppet Show sketches - Pigs
in Space, Veterinarian's Hospital
and Muppet Labs and many, many more
extraordinary surprises.
To celebrate this special weekend
of Muppet fun, The O2 will be
rolling out the green carpet for Muppet
movies, street food, live music, best costume competitions and a whole host of celebrations for
Piggy, Kermit and the gang.
Since 1965, Kermit the Frog and The Muppets have
been entertaining the world. In movies, on television, on the internet, and now
live on stage, The Muppets have done just what they set out to do: sing, dance
and make people happy.
Under the often times steady, but frequently
frantic leadership of Kermit the Frog, The Muppets have made eight theatrical
motion pictures, countless television specials and appearances and, of course,
that international mahna-mahna.... excuse us, we mean “phenomena”....The Muppet Show.
With a cast of characters headlined by the
inimitable, yet exasperating Miss Piggy, the hilarious Fozzie Bear, the
inexplicable Great Gonzo and the extremely-loud Animal, The Muppets remain as
beloved and befuddling entertaining as ever. So, please stop reading this --
because if you’re here then you probably already know all this stuff – and join
the aforementioned entertainers – plus Sam
Eagle, The Swedish Chef, Pepé the King Prawn, Lew Zealand, Rowlf and so many more! It’s time to get things started. This is
what we call The Muppets Take The O2.
And while this is the first ever live show for The Muppets in London, they are
honorary citizens of the UK’s capital….
●
The Muppet Show - their original 1976 TV show - was filmed at Elstree Studios,
London
●
In their second feature film The Great Muppet Caper (1981), The Muppets
must travel to London to stop a jewel heist…..
●
In 1992, their fourth film, The Muppet Christmas Carol, was an
adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic book and is based in London. This film
starred possibly one of London’s most famous sons - Sir Michael Caine
●
Jim Henson’s Creature Shop which created some of world's most memorable
characters and was a fundamental part of films like The Muppet Christmas Carol
was based in Hampstead and then Camden in North London until 2005
●
Muppets Most Wanted, their most recent film starring Ricky Gervais, ends
with a heist at the Tower of London. London was also the backdrop to much of
the film with buildings like Holborn's Freemasons' Hall doubling as a Spanish
art gallery
