{"id":12590,"date":"2014-10-17T09:49:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T15:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=12590"},"modified":"2014-10-17T09:49:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T15:49:49","slug":"muppets-coming-to-temple-square-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/muppets-coming-to-temple-square-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Muppets Coming to Temple Square for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> concert of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Salt Lake City is a PBS tradition each season and this year some PBS veterans are joining the party for the first time: the Muppets will be featured guests for the 2014 show. Joining them will be Broadway star Santino Fontana, who appeared with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in July for the Pioneer Day Concert. Fontana is the voice of Prince Hans from Disney&#8217;s hit movie <em>Frozen<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year\u2019s concert is going to be unlike any other,\u201d said Ron Jarrett, choir president. \u201cJoining Santino\u2019s talents with the residents of Sesame Street will bring the childlike wonder of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> into our hearts and minds and remind us of the true meaning of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The carefully guarded announcement was made by the Muppets\u2019 inconic character Elmo on Oct. 16, but exactly which of his furry colleagues will join him will be revealed weekly on the choir\u2019s website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormontabernaclechoir.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.mormontabernaclechoir.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The annual <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> concert is featured on PBS each season. Past guest artists range significantly from narrators such as Tom Brokaw and Walter Cronkite to musical talents such as Gladys Knight, Natalie Cole, and David Archuleta, just to name a few. The concert tickets are free. This year&#8217;s event will be held December 11, 12 and 13th with a full 90-minute performance and a 60-minute performance as part of the Choir&#8217;s traditional weekly <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/a-glimpse-of-christmas-100-years-ago\/\">radio<\/a> program on Sunday, December 14th.  <\/p>\n<p>Here is a clip from the 2012 concert featuring storytelling by Tom Brokaw:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hjz8yu5MWC0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Christmas concert of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Salt Lake City is a PBS tradition each season and this year some PBS veterans are joining the party for the first time: the Muppets will be featured guests for the 2014 show. Joining them will be Broadway star Santino Fontana, who appeared with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,6,2],"tags":[131,132],"class_list":["post-12590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-features","category-christmas-music","category-christmas-news","tag-christmas-concert","tag-mormon-tabernacle-choir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}