Disney Theatrical Prods. has sensitively instituted early explorations of a live theatre uncover featuring the Muppets, commencing late final month with a brief yet elaborate display destined by Alex Timbers.

The brief showcase, staged May 31 during Disney’s New Amsterdam Theater for a organisation of DTP staffers and a handful of others connected to a intensity project, incorporated a handful of sets and some-more than 85 Muppets in an examination dictated to exhibit either it would even be possibly to benefaction a Muppets in a live melodramatic context, sophistry puppetry needs with assembly sightlines and all a other earthy final of legit theater.

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“It was a exam of concept,” pronounced Thomas Schumacher, writer and prexy of Disney Theatrical. With a concentration on a tech mandate of such an endeavor, a brief preference of pre-existing Muppet element was performed. (Yes, Kermit sang “Rainbow Connection.”)

Timbers, a bustling executive (“Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” “The Pee-Wee Herman Show,” “Here Lies Love”) whose arriving gigs embody “The Last Goodbye” in San Diego and “Rocky” on Broadway, told Schumacher he had come adult with a judgment for a Muppets theatre uncover while they collaborated on Peter Pan prequel “Peter and a Starcatcher,” a 2011 Off Broadway tour that went on to win 5 Tonys in a 2012 Rialto transfer.

Scheduling of a new trial, that ran usually 15 minutes, was timed to take place during a window of overlapping accessibility for Timbers, a New Amsterdam (currently dim in allege of a open 2014 crawl of “Aladdin”) and a tangible rope of puppets, following a filming of Disney’s “The Muppets… Again!,” on daub for a Mar release.

The Muppets display was one partial of Disney Theatrical’s extended line-up of growth activities, with legit incarnations of “Shakespeare in Love” and “Father of a Bride,” and a redux of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” among a titles that are distant serve along on a highway to a stage.

It’s too early to contend either a plan will rise out of a new Muppets event. But according to attendees, a brief audition seemed to go well, and a theatre chronicle of a Muppets seems a no-brainer given a high form of a widely dear Disney property.

For now, though, it’s only a possibility, if a earnest one. “I’m really intrigued,” Schumacher said.