“Sesame Street” Muppets join Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Christmas concert
Santino Fontana laughs as Sesame Street's Carol-Lynn Parente hands a cookie to Cookie Monster during a press conference at the LDS Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Friday, Dec. 12, 2014. Nine Muppets are joining the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for their Christmas concerts. SPENSER HEAPS/Daily Herald
Cookie Monster, Elmo and Abby Cadabby answer questions during a press conference at the LDS Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Friday, Dec. 12, 2014. Nine Muppets are joining the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for their Christmas concerts. SPENSER HEAPS/Daily Herald
Monitors shows Cookie Monster, Elmo, Abby Cadabby and Sesame Street's Carol-Lynn Parente during a TV interview at the LDS Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Friday, Dec. 12, 2014. Nine Muppets are joining the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for their Christmas concerts. SPENSER HEAPS/Daily Herald
Cookie Monster, Elmo and Abby Cadabby and Sesame Street's Carol-Lynn Parente do a TV interview at the LDS Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Friday, Dec. 12, 2014. Nine Muppets are joining the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for their Christmas concerts. SPENSER HEAPS/Daily Herald
Mormon Tabernacle Choir representatives met with Cookie Monster, Elmo and Abby from “Sesame Street” on Friday at the LDS Conference Center to talk about their upcoming holiday show with special guest Santino Fontana.
The Muppets will team up with America’s choir to present a musical Christmas concert with Fontana, who starred as Prince Hans in Disney’s hit film “Frozen.”
More than 80,000 tickets have been distributed for the performances set for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Sesame Street characters including Big Bird, Bert and Ernie, Rosita and the Count will make appearances in the concerts and also during Sunday morning’s “Music and the Spoken Word” broadcast.
Event organizers said that although tickets have been distributed, they encourage those without tickets to arrive at the Conference Center early to mark their spot in the standby line.
“We’re quite sure we can get you in,” said choir president Ron Jarrett during a Friday press conference.
The concert also will be broadcast live inside the Tabernacle.