A Sesame Street Holiday Celebration

A Sesame Street Holiday Celebration is an hour-long prime-time special which aired on HBO on Dec 10, 2020, and on PBS the following week. The special follows the Sesame Street Muppets (new and old) as they gather around Sesame Street (rebuilt to include the Around the Corner set) to celebrate the holiday season, with a medley of Christmas songs, unforgettable memories, and even a visit from Santa Claus himself.

Unlike most Sesame Street projects, which are taped at Kaufman Astoria Studios in New York, this special was filmed on location in Los Angeles, California.

Songs
Sesame Street Theme - written by Bruce Hart, Joe Raposo, and Jon Stone

It's Christmas Again - written by Tony Geiss, sung by the Muppets of Sesame Street

Jingle Bells - written by James Lord Pierpont, sung by the Muppets of Sesame Street

It Feels Like Christmas - written by Paul Williams, sung by the Muppets of Sesame Street

The Twelve Days of Christmas - traditional, sung by the Count, Big Bird, Bert, Grover, Elmo, Abby, Telly, Rosita, Prairie Dawn, Zoe, Cookie Monster, Trevor, and Ernie

Cast
Chris - Chris Knowings

Nina - Suki Lopez

Alan - Alan Muraoka

Charlie - Violet Tinnirello

Special Guest Star
Santa Claus - Mark Hamill

Sesame Street Muppet Performers
Pam Arciero as Grundgetta, Alice Snuffleupagus, Betty Lou

Jennifer Barnhart as Zoe, Abby's Mom, Mama Bear, Granny Bird, Gladys the Cow

Rickey Boyd as Twiddlebugs

Warrick Brownlow-Pike as Gonger

Tyler Bunch as Elmo's Dad, Dr. Nobel Price

Leslie Carrara-Rudolph as Abby

Bruce Connelly as Barkley

Frankie Cordero as Rudy, Papa Bear, Stinky the Stinkweed

Stephanie D'Abruzzo as Prairie Dawn, Curly Bear, Little Bird, Lulu, Roxie Marie, Elmo's Mom, Clementine

Ryan Dillon as Elmo, Roosevelt Franklin, Don Music, Natasha, Lefty the Salesman

Stacey Gordon as Julia

Christopher Thomas Hayes as Hoots

Eric Jacobson as Grover, Bert, Oscar, Guy Smiley, Two-Headed Monster, Harvey Kneeslapper, Miss Piggy

John Kennedy as The Amazing Mumford, Biff

Peter Linz as Ernie, Herry, Benny

Spencer Lott as Samuel

Carmen Osbahr as Rosita, Ovejita

Martin P. Robinson as Snuffy, Telly, Slimey, Buster the Horse, Monty

David Rudman as Cookie Monster, Baby Bear, Two-Headed Monster, Rudy's Dad, Humphrey, Sully

John Tartaglia as Ingrid

Matt Vogel as Big Bird, the Count, Murray, Forgetful Jones, Frazzle, Sherlock Hemlock, Simon Soundman, Mr. Johnson, Kermit the Frog

and Mark Hamill as the voice of Trevor

Additional Sesame Street Muppet Performers
Brad Abrell, Heather Asch, David Barclay, Tau Bennett, Ronald Binion, Lindsey Z. Briggs, Julianne Buescher, Austin Michael Costello, Melissa Creighton, Alice Dinnean, Jamie Donmoyer, Mark Gale, Louise Gold, BJ Guyer, Liz Hara, Andy Hayward, Patrick Holmes, Haley Jenkins, Kathleen Kim, Jim Kroupa, Tim Lagasse, Bruce Lanoil, Michael Latini, Lara MacLean, Noel MacNeal, Amanda Maddock, Drew Massey, Paul McGinnis, Tracie Mick, Andrew Moriarty, Alison Mork, Marc Petrosino, Karen Prell, Mike Quinn, Andy Stone, Steve Troop, Gabriel Velez, Victor Yerrid, Bryant Young

Classic Segment Muppet Performers
Fran Brill, Kevin Clash, Jim Henson, Richard Hunt, Rick Lyon, Jim Martin, Joey Mazzarino, Jerry Nelson, Frank Oz, Caroll Spinney, Steve Whitmire