Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration



Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration is a special produced for Sesame Street’s 25th anniversary. Released in a slightly different form on video as Sesame Street: 25 Wonderful Years in October 1993, the special was shelved for its broadcast premiere on PBS until 1994, during pledge drive season, and in many markets, aired as part of a marathon block with Sesame Street Visits the Firehouse, Put Down the Duckie, and A New Baby in My House. The special was a companion to the prime-time network special, Sesame Street's All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

The broadcast and home video versions have the same linking footage (with a couple of added scenes and alternate takes), but different clips. Sesame Street Jam focused on celebrity segments, many coming from segments filmed for the 25th season; A Musical Celebration replaced most of these segments with classic Sesame Street songs. However, they both end with the cast and Ladysmith Black Mambazo performing "Sing." The music score throughout the special is also changed in many places for the home video release.

Cast
Muppets:
 * Big Bird, Telly Monster, Prairie Dawn, Elmo, Cookie Monster, Grover, Herry Monster, The Amazing Mumford, Davey Monkey, Joey Monkey, Count von Count, Merry Monster, Humphrey Monster, Baby Natasha, the Martians

Background Muppets:
 * Oscar the Grouch, Ernie, Bert, Forgetful Jones, Buster the Horse, Roxy Marie, Kingston Livingston III, The Oinker Sisters, Hoots the Owl, Madame Chairbird, Two-Headed Monster, Polly Darton, Mr. Honker, Dinger, Henrietta Honker, Kathleen the Cow, Leo Birdelli, Rosita, Barkley, Penguins, Chickens, Ducks

Human Cast:
 * Savion, Jamal, Angela, Gina, Maria, Celina, Carlo, Bob

Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets:
 * Martin P. Robinson, Fran Brill, Jerry Nelson, Kevin Clash, David Rudman, Joey Mazzarino, Pam Arciero, Jim Kroupa, Noel MacNeal, Jim Martin, Bryant Young, Carmen Osbahr, Alison Mork, Peter MacKennan, Lisa Buckley, Frank Oz and Jim Henson
 * Uncredited: Stephanie D'Abruzzo

Cast:
 * Carlo Alban, Alison Bartlett, Ruth Buzzi, Annette Calud, Savion Glover, Angel Jemmott, Sonia Manzano, Bob McGrath, Jou Jou Papailler

Credits

 * Executive Producer: Arlene Sherman
 * Writer: Luis Santeiro
 * Directors: Mustapha Khan, Ted May, Lisa Simon, Jon Stone
 * Associate Producer: Karin Young Shiel
 * Music Director: Robby Merkin
 * Songs By: Christopher Cerf, Dave Conner, Ian Ellis James, Jeff Moss, Joe Raposo, Luis Santeiro, Norman Stiles
 * Editor: John R. Tierney
 * Muppets, Costumes and Props: Ed Christie with Laurent Linn, Peter MacKennan, Stephen Rotondaro, Mark Zeszotek
 * Muppet Coordinator: Kevin Clash
 * Production Designer: Victor DiNapoli
 * Costume Designer: Bill Kellard
 * "New Way to Walk" Choreographer: Savion Glover
 * Sound Effects: Dick Maitland
 * Special Thanks to Norman Stiles