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\n He\u2019s got magic to do.
\n Photo: Tri-Star Pictures\n <\/p>\n
When a frog closes a door<\/a>, he opens a window for a 12-week theatrical run. For the first time outside of the fictional events of the 1984 classic movie musical Muppets Take Manhattan, the real, live, felt-and-blood Muppets are coming to Broadway. There are so many possibilities for what a live Muppet Broadway show could look like: a Muppet Show\u2013style musical revue! A timely staging of Muppet Christmas Carol for the holidays! An all-Muppet production of Titus Andronicus! A \u2026 \u201cspecial guest\u201d second-billing for an America\u2019s Got Talent magician?<\/p>\n The Muppets will mark their historic Broadway debut in Rob Lake Magic With Special Guests the Muppets, a limited-engagement magic show. Rob Lake is bringing his \u201cdeath-defying and mind-blowing illusions\u201d to Broadway, he announced in a video on August 20. Enter Kermit, who says, \u201cThere is nothing like live theater in New York City\u201d and also promises not to tell Miss Piggy that she isn\u2019t the headliner.<\/p>\n Magician Rob Lake refers to himself as \u201cthe guy who made Adele magically disappear.\u201d He was the creative consultant and \u201cillusion designer\u201d (cool title) for Adele\u2019s Las Vegas residency at Caesars Palace, and he has also designed illusions and tricks for Broadway shows like Aladdin and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. As for his Muppet bona fides, he designed illusions for Sesame Street Live!<\/a>.<\/p>\n As for the Muppets, this will be their first new project since their animatronics got brutally ripped from the floorboards at Disney World\u2019s Muppet*Vision 3D. Rob Lake Magic With Special Guests the Muppets will begin previews at the Broadhurst Theatre on October 28 and run until January 18, 2026. Even if the Muppets don\u2019t get to sing and dance, it\u2019ll be worth it to go just to see how Lake pulls off sawing a Muppet in half when they don\u2019t have legs. Down the middle?<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He\u2019s got magic to do. Photo: Tri-Star Pictures When a frog closes a door, he opens a window…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[11942,434,18,117,19,17,11944,11940,11945,11938,5,11939,11943,11941],"class_list":{"0":"post-12651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-broadway","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-kermit","15":"tag-magic","16":"tag-miss-piggy","17":"tag-muppets","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-the-muppets","20":"tag-theater","21":"tag-theyre-illusions-michael"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}