Sesame Street
Louise
Gold featured as a puppeteer in the early 1990s, from around 1991 to 1995, more
or less (see note below), produced by The Children’s Television Workshop, taped
at Teletape Studios and Kaufman Astoria Studios in New
York. Probably Seasons 23 (episodes 2876 to 3005), Season 24 (episodes 3006 to
3135), and Season
25 (episodes 3136 to 3265), and possibly Season 26 (episodes 3166 to 3395), and
Season 27 (episodes 3396 to 3525). In fact it is known that she performed in
Season 27.
In
the early
Note,
it does not seem to be quite clear exactly when Ms Gold was working on
Some
twenty years later Ms Gold returned to the Sesame Street family of shows with a
starring puppeteering role in the Sesame Street spin off series The Furchester Hotel
(where she performs Elmo’s Aunt Funella Furchester)
Please
note that this page is not meant to be in any way a comprehensive reflection of
Cast (During the Early 1990s only)
Puppeteers (The dates
indicate when a particular puppeteer worked on
Pam Arciero
Camille Bonora (1985-1997)
Fran Brill – as: The Countess’s Mother, Praire Dawn, and other assorted characters
Lisa Buckley (1970-92)
Julianne Buescher (1991)
Tyler Bunch (199? to 200? – uncredited)
Kevin Clash – Boy at Lunchtime,
R. Bruce Connelly (1990-)
Stephanie D’Abruzzo (from 3 November 1993 onwards)
Alice Dinnean Vernon (1993-2002)
Dave Goelz (occasionally 1992-93)
Louise Gold – as: A Bookworm, Charming, A Diva, The Countess (von Backwards), Ethel Mermaid, Frazzle’s Mom, A Girl Who Needs Help, Louisey, The Princess With The Pea, Prunella The Grouch, Renata Scottie Dog The Loudest Singer In The World, and other assorted characters
John Kennedy (199? to 2001)
Peter Linz (1993 – 1999)
Noel MacNeal (1986-)
Jim Martin (1986-)
Joey Mazzarino (1991-)
Kathryn Mullen (Early 1980s, and Early 1990s)
Carmen Osbahr (1991-)
Frank Oz (1969 to 2000)
Marty P Robinson (197?-)
David Rudman (1985-)
Judy Sladky (1986-2001)
Carroll Spinney – as Big Bird, Oscar The Grouch, and other assorted characters
Steve Whitmire (1993-2002)
Bryant Young (1971-)
Regular Live Actors
Savion Glover – as Savion
Sonia Manzano – as Maria
Also:
Roscoe Orman – as Gordon Robinson
Loretta Long – as Susan Robinson
Emilio Delgado – as Luis
Ruth Buzzi – as Ruthie
Alison Bartlett – as Gina Jefferson
Linda Bove – as Linda
Bob McGrath – as Bob Johnson
Annette Calud – as Celina
David L. Smyrl – as Mr Handford
Cameo Role Actors
Louise Gold – as Bootsy
The Lost Kitten’s Owner.
Production Team
Executive Producer – Dulcy Singer
Coordinating Producer – Arlene Sherman
Associate Producers – Karin Young Shiel, and, Carol D. Meyers
Producer – Lisa Simon
Assistant To Producers – Danette DeSena
Directed by – Lisa Simon, and, Jon Stone
Head Writer –
Writers – Sara
Crompton, Judy Freudberg, Tony Geiss,
Muppet Co-Ordinator – Kevin Clash
Music Coordinator –
Associate Music Director – Dave Conner
Production Supervisor – Frieda Lipp
Editing Supervisor – Robert J. Emerick
Associate Directors –
Production Designer – Victor Di Napoli
Costume Designers – Bill Kellard, and, Terry Robertson
Graphic Designer – Mike Pantuso
Set Decorator – Nat Mongioi
Art Director – Bob Phillips
Production Stage Managers – Ric E. Anderson, Chet O’Brien, and, Chuck Raymond
Stage Manager – Chuck Raymond, and, Rose Riggins
Curriculum Coordinator – Diane P. Mitchell
Production Assistants – Leslie Brothers, Tim Carter, Christine Ferraro, Gabrielle Howard, Cher Jung, Ruth Luwisch, Carol-Lynn Parente, and, Nina Shelton
Script Coordinator – Thelma Moses
Children’s Casting – Kim J. Wilson
Unit Manager – Eleanor McIntosh
Technical Director - Ralph Mensch
Lighting Director – Bill Berner
Sound Effects – Dick Maitland
Audio – Blake Norton, and, Tim Lester
Video - Dick Sens
Cameras – Frank Biondo, and, Dave Driscoll
Videotape Editor – Evamarie Keller, Linda M. Long, and, John R. Tierney
Electronic Maintenance – Rolf Wahl
Make-Up - Lee Halls
Hair Stylist – Karen Specht
Wardrobe – Colleen Roe
Vice President, Production Research – Bettina Peel
Assistant Vice President Production Research – Valeria Lovelace, Phd
Vice President for Research – Keith W. Miekle Phd
Chairman Board Of Advisors – Gerald S. Lesser Phd
Vice President for Production – Franklin Getchell
Facilities by – Unitel Video Inc
The
lists below are incomplete. If anyone can help with any further information on
the gaps please contact the webmaster
Sesame Street Songs And Sketches
Involving Louise Gold (this list Is Incomplete)
Songs And Sketches Definitely Involving Louise Gold
Nestrapolitan Opera Presents: A Diva Singing The Alphabet
(1991) – starring Louise Gold as A
Diva
Al’s Alphabet Repair: Non-Jumping J
– featuring
Monsterpiece Theatre Presents: Anyone’s Nose (a
parody of the title song from Anything Goes) – starring Louise Gold, with
The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe – including Louise Gold (singer of 2nd
of 3 verses) {She is credited on the Elmo’s Lowdown Hoedown album, and it
sounds likely}
Fairy Tales Today: The Princess And The Pea –
starring Fran Brill as Prarie Dawn,
and, Louise Gold as The Princess
{it’s in her resume}
Fairy Tales Update: Repunzel - starring ?
a Repunzel, ?Frank Oz as The Prince,
and, Louise Gold as Bob Lackey. (the
voice and puppetry just seem very very likely to be hers)
Frazzle Visits To The Dentist – starring
I Am Chicken – starring Louise Gold as a Chicken (1991) {credited on the Born To Add album,
sounds likely too}
I Can Sing Anything When I Sing With You –
starring Louise Gold as Louisey and
I Get A Kick Out Of U – starring Louise Gold as Ethel Mermaid (1991)
{It’s totally obvious, and anyway it’s in her resume}
Indian Love Call (When I’m Calling You) – starring
Louise Gold (date unknown) the voice makes it obvious the puppetry is difficult
to tell because of having an assistant.. Also one of the lyrics has a clue.
Nestrapolitan Opera Presents: Charmin’ –
starring Louise Gold as Charmin’
(singing about the joys of a fax machine!), with
Prunella The Grouch Visits (in Episode 3119) –
starring Carroll Spinney as Oscar
and Louise Gold as Prunella (Oscar’s
British cousin)
Episode 3723 (this episode in Season 29 was a repeat of an
episode in Season 27): Renata Scottie Dog Visits – Louise Gold had a starring role
puppeteering Renata Scottie Dog The Most famous Dog Opera Singer In The World
(one of her favourite characters – she mentions it in an interview).
Episode 3120: Sally Messy Yuckyael (Oscar And The Kitten) - Louise
Gold did a cameo acting appearance as Bootsy The Kitten’s owner: She also
puppeteered Sally Messy Yuckyael
Episode ?episode number: Sally Messy Yuckyael (Grouches
Who Love Too Much) – Louise
Gold puppeteered Sally Messey Yuckyael.
SuperGrover Cross The Street – (A SuperGrover
sketch – Starring Frank Oz as
SuperGrover, and, Louise Gold as a
girl he helps (Louise’s voice sounds like Raisin and her left-handed puppeteering
also give her away).
Wouldn’t It Be Yucky (a parody of Wouldn’t
It Be Luverly) – sung by Louise
Gold as Prunella The Grouch and,
Caroll Spinney as Oscar The Grouch. (According to Muppet Wiki)
Songs And Sketches Louise Gold May Have Puppeteered On (There is some
debate about these ones)
A Tall Tale – starring Kevin Clash as Elmo,
Biff Gets His Thumb Caught In A Bowling Ball –
starring
The Cooperation Song (A Song For Two Will Make Us One)
– starring Louise Gold as a Girl Who
Needs Help and
I Could Have Counted All Night – starring Louise Gold as The Countess,
I Love You More Or Less – starring Louise Gold and
I’m A
Bookworm Baby – (According to RL) Louise Gold (assisted by
In
The Job Song - This was mistakenly identified
by a Muppet fan as one of Louise Gold’s,
but to those familiar with her puppetry is CLEARLY IS NOT
The
Monsterpiece Theatre Presents: Cyranose De Bergerac
– starring Frank Oz,
Monsterpiece Theatre Presents: Inside And Outside
(a parody of Tonight from West Side Story) – starring Louise Gold and
Near And Far – starring Louise Gold (Muppet fan TW says this starred Louise Gold and Marty
Robinson, your webmaster thinks it possible)
Episode 3116: Shapes Clubs (Some Muppet fans
reckon Louise Gold performed the
Grand Royal Square Person in this episode, your webmaster hasn’t seen the
sketches, but from the photographs reckons they might be right, the character
seems to have a certain look about it which could be Ms Gold’s left-hand).
Some Enchanted Lunchtime – starring Kevin Clash and Louise Gold {Both your webmaster and Muppet Fan TW reckon it’s Louise Gold’s puppetry and voice}
Something Always Comes Between Us (some Muppet
fans, and Muppet Wiki, seem to think Louise
Gold and
Episode 3122: SuperNanny (Oscar The Grouch has
an encounter or two with Supernanny Penny Pipkins, a Mary Poppins parody. Your
webmaster hasn’t seen the skit, but various Muppet fans seem to think Louise Gold performed her, and
timescale wise it would fit in there).
There’s Nothing We Women Can’t Be {Tiny
Dancer’s website seems to think Louise
Gold was one of the women, however it DEFINTITLY IS NOT, because the song
was done in 1974 nearly 20 years before Louise
Gold’s stint on Sesame Street}
Wet Paint (some Muppet fans reckon Louise Gold did this). The singing
could be her (it could also be one or two other people), the puppetry is
suggestive of Louise’s lefthanded style.
Louise Gold’s
Definite
A Bookworm (with
A Chicken (who
sings a song I Am Chicken)
A Diva (who sings the alphabet) (some of the
Muppet fans affectionately refer to this character as “Diva Louise”)
Anyone’s Nose Singer (a loud singer who sings Anyone’s
Nose – she sounds exactly like a certain
One of the Ballad Singers (in The Ballad Of
The Sad Cafe)
Bob Lackey – a lackey to the Prince in Fairy
Update Repunzel.
Charming/ Charmin’ – an opera star who loves
her fax machine
Girl “Helped” by SuperGrover in Super Grover
Crosses The Street
Louisey (named for her puppeteer she sang a
perfect duet with Herry Monster)
Ethel Mermaid – ostensibly a parody of Ethel Merman, but in fact she was not
dissimilar to a certain notable West End actress sometimes described as “An English Ethel Merman”’s, when
performing a Merman role.
Frazzle’s Mother –
when Frazzle goes to the dentist (puppeteered left-handed and with a cockney
accent, no one else would have done that on
J Owner (who’s J won’t Jump)
Louisey – an
orange-haired muppet who is clearly named after Louise Gold herself, as she and
The Princess (in
The Princess And The Pea)
Prunella The Grouch (Oscar’s
British cousin)
Renata Scottie Dog (The
Most Famous Dog Opera Singer In The World)
Diva LaDiva (The
Loudest Singer In The World) – well what else would you have a very loud
singing-puppeteer do?
Sally Messy Yuckyael
(a grouchy chat-show host in the episode of the same title)
Possible
Female Singer in Something Always Comes between Us
(it is unclear who did this, vocally it could match at least three or four
Sesame Street puppeteers, and it’s unclear which of them it actually is)
Grand Royal Square Lover (she is a counterpart
to The Grand High Triangle Lover – Muppet Wiki seem to reckon she performed
her, and the photographs in MuppetWiki do seem to have a certain look about
her...)
A
Girl In A Blind Date (spoilt by a Wet Paint Sign)
A Girl Who Needs Help (to sing a
great song for two people)
Celeste (Biff’s wife – when Biff gets his thumb
caught in a bowling ball)
The Countess (probably
Countess von Backwards in I Could Have Counted All Night, she can’t have
puppeteered it, but did she sing it? – the consensus among the puppeteers is
that she probably sang it, at least on the album)
New Girl At School in Some Enchanted Lunchtime
The Queen in Cyranose De Bergerac
Queen Olivia / Queen Edna in The Kingdom Of O
(according to Muppet WIKI)
Roxanne
(Cyranose DeBergerac’s beau)
SuperNanny/ Penny Pipkins (a sort of parody of
Mary Poppins, who cleans up Oscars Trashcan while trying to help Oscar look
after his nephew)
For
a fuller account and reviews of many of
the Sesame Street sketches listed above
(including notes on the evidence as to who may or may not have performed on
them), please click here.
As a
Pam Arcerio, Camille
Bonora, Fran Brill, Kevin Clash, Louise Gold, Peter Linz,
Pam Arcerio, Fran
Brill, Kevin Clash, Louise Gold, Jim Martin, Joey Mazzarino,
Pam Arcerio, Camille
Bonora, Fran Brill, Kevin Clash, Louise Gold, Peter Linz,
In
addition, besides performing I Get A Kick Out Of U on Sesame
Street, Louise Gold has sung
that song in her singer-actresses’s guise in Anything Goes (Stage Show), and indeed
recorded it on Anything Goes (Recording) – Website Recommended Album. Indeed her recording of the proper version of that song
can also be found on: Cole Porter –
Night And Day, The Best Of Broadway Musicals, The Greatest Musicals Of
The 20th Century, and, The
Great Musicals – Glamour And Majesty; and an excerpt is included on The History Of The Musical.
In
addition, besides performing Anyone’s Nose on Sesame
Street, Louise Gold has sung
that song in her singer-actress’s guise in Anything
Goes (Stage Show), and indeed recorded it on Anything Goes (Recording) – Website Recommended
Album. Indeed her recording of the proper version of that song can also be found
on: Cole Porter – Night And Day, Simply Musicals, The
Great Musicals – Wonderful Tales, Magic
Of The Musicals, and, The Best Of
The Musicals.
Besides
possibly performing I Could Have Counted All Night, and Wouldn’t It Be Yucky on
Besides
possibly performing Super Nanny / Penny
Pipkins, in the Super Nanny episode of Sesame Street, Louise Gold went on to play the nasty
nanny Ms Andrew in a stage production of Mary
Poppins.
Pam Arcerio, Camille
Bonora, Fran Brill, Kevin Clash, Dave Goelz, Louise Gold,
Kathryn Mullen,
Camille Bonora, Kevin
Clash, Louise Gold, Marty P. Robinson, David Rudman, and, Steve Whitmire had previously puppeteered
on The Tale Of The Bunny
Picnic.
Kevin Clash, Dave
Goelz, Kathryn Mullen, Frank Oz, David Rudman, and, Steve Whitmire had previously puppeteered
on Labyrinth.
Kevin Clash, Dave
Goelz, Louise Gold,
Kevin Clash, Dave
Goelz, Louise Gold, Kathryn Mullen,
Frank Oz,
As
major puppeteers from The Muppet
Show, Frank Oz,
Frank Oz,
Dave Goelz, Louise
Gold, Kathryn Mullen, Frank Oz, and, Steve Whitmire had previously puppeteered on The Dark Crystal,
which
Frank Oz,
Dave Goelz, Louise
Gold, and, Steve Whitmire went
on to puppeteer on The Animal Show, on which Frank Oz made an appearance as a guest
puppeteer.
Dave Goelz, Louise
Gold, John Kennedy,
Louise Gold, Kathryn
Mullen,
Louise Gold, and,
Louise Gold, and, Marty P
Robinson had previously puppeteered on Spitting Image.
Steve Whitmire probably puppeteered Kermit The Frog
on ITV’s 50 Greatest Shows.
Louise Gold, and, David Rudman, along with Ryan
Dillon, have gone on to puppeteer together (very much as Sesame
Street puppeteers) on the Sesame Street spin off series The Furchester Hotel,
for which Belinda Ward and Carol-Lynne Parente
are also members of the production team.
Louise Gold did a job on an episode of Justin’s House as a Guest Puppeteer, from The Furchester Hotel.
When
Warrick Brownlow-Pike and Louise Gold appeared together at Muppets And
Puppets (Kaleidoscope Event) they mentioned that Warrick
now puppeteers on Sesame Street.
Pam Arcerio, Alice
Dinnean Vernon, and, Louise Gold have all gone on to perform as part of GLOP.
Critics Comments
Links about
Sesame Workshop’s Official Site (where you can watch quite a number of clips officially): http://www.sesamestreet.org/home and in particular http://www.sesamestreet.org/browseallvideos See especially: Anyone’s Nose: http://www.sesamestreet.org/video_player?p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_id=videoPlayer_WAR_sesameportlets4369&p_p_uid=d228aa95-156a-11dd-bb51-597ab51d2e81 The Cooperation song: http://www.sesamestreet.org/video_player?p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_id=videoPlayer_WAR_sesameportlets4369&p_p_uid=da2de748-156e-11dd-bb51-597ab51d2e81, Frazzle Visits The Dentist: http://www.sesamestreet.org/video_player?p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_id=videoPlayer_WAR_sesameportlets4369&p_p_uid=a66095c2-154f-11dd-8ea8-a3d2ac25b65b , I Could Have Counted All Night: http://www.sesamestreet.org/video_player?p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_id=videoPlayer_WAR_sesameportlets4369&p_p_uid=865778f9-154c-11dd-8ea8-a3d2ac25b65b Near And Far: http://www.sesamestreet.org/video_player?p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_id=videoPlayer_WAR_sesameportlets4369&p_p_uid=3890895b-1556-11dd-8211-118ee0e6e3e7 Some Enchanted Lunchtime: http://www.sesamestreet.org/video_player?p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_id=videoPlayer_WAR_sesameportlets4369&p_p_uid=f45ff119-1578-11dd-9bc7-777dea8a73e7 , Super Grover Cross The Street: http://www.sesamestreet.org/video_player?p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_id=videoPlayer_WAR_sesameportlets4369&p_p_uid=646c2bf0-1648-11dd-995c-3d52ab3e4656 ., Wet Paint Sign: http://www.sesamestreet.org/video_player?p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_id=videoPlayer_WAR_sesameportlets4369&p_p_uid=8142d651-1579-11dd-9bc7-777dea8a73e7 (you have to select this one from the associated clips on this music video). The Answer Lady Can’t Tell Two
And the questionable ones: I Could Have Counted All Night: http://www.sesamestreet.org/video_player?p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_id=videoPlayer_WAR_sesameportlets4369&p_p_uid=865778f9-154c-11dd-8ea8-a3d2ac25b65b
Tibby’s Bowl/ Muppet Central Interview with
Louise Gold (needless to say
Tiny Dancer’s Sesame Street Site: http://members.tripod.com/Tiny_Dancer/sesame1.html (see also: http://members.tripod.com/Tiny_Dancer/chicken.html
, http://members.tripod.com/Tiny_Dancer/getakick.html
, http://members.tripod.com/Tiny_Dancer/enchant.html , and possibly: , http://members.tripod.com/Tiny_Dancer/callingu.html )
Muppet Wiki: Sesame Street Index: http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Sesame_Street
Season’s index: http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Sesame_Street_Seasons, and pages for :
Particular
songs, skits and episodes: http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/I_Am_Chicken , http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/I_Could_Have_Counted_All_Night , http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/I_Get_a_Kick_Out_of_U , http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Tonight , http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Monsterpiece_Theatre , http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Some_Enchanted_Evening , http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Elmo%27s_Lowdown_Hoedown , http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Phil_Harmonic , http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Prairie_Dawn , http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/I%27m_a_Bookworm_Baby
, http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_3122,
http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/South_America_Way
, http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/The_Alphabet_Song,
http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Cyranose_de_Bergerac , http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_3116
, http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_3119
, http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_3172
, http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_3109
, http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_3723
, http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_3763
, http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_3120
, http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_3133
Particular
Characters: http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Sesame_Street_Characters , http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Ethel_Mermaid , http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Prunella_the_Grouch , http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Countess_von_Backwards
, http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Anyone%27s_Nose_singer,
http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Nanny
, http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/The_Grand_Royal_Square_Lover
, http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Renata_Scottie , http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Bob_Lackey
And Ms Gold’s cameo acting appearance: http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_3120 , http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Miscellaneous_Cameos , and, http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Louise3120.jpg
Wikipedia’s list of
TV.Com’s page for the programme: http://www.tv.com/sesame-street/show/887/cast.html
A Fanpage All About
Muppet Central Thread: http://forum.muppetcentral.com/showthread.php?t=19304
Boober’s
Punch And
Jewlry’s List (the
original internet guide for Muppet productions): http://www.punchandjewelry.com/legacy/sueguide.txt
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