Black Theater

Black Theater, not unlike Bunraku, involves performers and sets dressed in black to keep the performers hidden from the audience. Whereas Bunraku involves several people operating one puppet, Black Theater typically only requires one performer.

Below is a list of the use of Black Theater in Henson/Muppet Productions:

Sesame Street

 * "What's My Part?" (Mr. Nose)
 * "Eight Balls of Fur"
 * "Counting Vacation" (Fish)

The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence

 * "For the Birds"

The Muppet Show

 * Episode 101: "Solace"
 * Episode 113: "In a Little Spanish Town", "All I Need Is the Girl"
 * Episode 119: "I'm Looking Through You"
 * Episode 120: "Nobody Does It Like Me"
 * Episode 121: "Dance"
 * Episode 122: "Java"
 * Episode 124: "When I'm Not Near the Fish I Love"
 * Episode 220: "The Boy From Ipanema"
 * Episode 403: "In a Little Spanish Town"
 * Episode 416: "You'll Never Walk Alone"
 * Episode 417: "Three Little Fishies"
 * Episode 514: "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me"

Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas

 * Talent Show:
 * Shirley and Nat Muskrat dance as "Carrots the Dancing Horse"
 * Squirrels dance
 * George and Melissa Rabbit dance

It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie

 * The Bossmen perform during the failed "Cirque du So Lamé" number.