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Muppets in Moscow : the unexpected crazy true story of making Sesame Street in Russia  Cover Image Book Book

Muppets in Moscow : the unexpected crazy true story of making Sesame Street in Russia

Summary: "Muppets In Moscow reveals how-in between bombings and political chaos in 1990s Moscow-a team of Russian and American artists, producers, educators, writers, and puppeteers overcame their many differences to create an unprecedented hit in a post-communist era"--

Item details

  • ISBN: 9781538161289
  • ISBN: 1538161281
  • ISBN: 9781538161296
  • Physical Description: print
    xix, 267 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2022]

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note: Introduction -- Dead bodies and deals. Back in [the USSR] Russia ; My introduction to Sesame Street ; Russian media isn't the safest place right now ; The oligarchs and the Muppets ; No gangsters for Sezam Street ; We don't want your moppets ; Irina, the golden goose -- Creating the show. Is "R" for Rachmaninoff or rock 'n' roll? ; Just when you think it can't get any worse ; Boot camp with Sergeant Elmo ; The grandmaster in Moscow ; Big Bird's bible ; An angel descends ; B is for blacklist ; Stealing Elmo ; Will Sesame Street save the day? ; The scriptwriters and Groucho Marxism ; A rusty car in every neighborhood ; Sad songs from the mouths of babes ; Elmo says "good night" in Russian ; A forest sprite takes flight ; Moppets in Amerika -- Birthing the babies. Ulitsa Sezam's Neighborhood ; Will work for bananas! ; Finish lines in quicksand ; Birth of an angel and a broadcaster ; Lighting up screens across the former USSR -- Epilogue -- Postscript.
Subject: Lance Rogoff, Natasha
Ulit͡sa Sezam (Television program) Ulit͡sa Sezam (Television program)
Sesame Street (Television program) Sesame Street (Television program)
Children's television programs Production and direction Russia (Federation)
Television and politics Russia (Federation)
Television producers and directors United States Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts
HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies
PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Genres / Children's
Sesame Street (Television program) Sesame Street (Television program)
Television and politics
Television producers and directors
Russia (Federation)
United States
Genre: Biographies.
Autobiographies.

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