Muppets to the City

Muppets on Broadway is an upcoming second sequel to 2011's "The Muppets", and 2014's "Muppets Most Wanted" and the 9th Muppet movie, in cooperation with The Jim Henson Company and co-produced by Jim Henson Pictures, with many similarities of the 1984 Sony/TriStar film, Take Manhattan''. The plot for this movie is that the Muppets are trying to buy a Broadway theater for a Muppet musical as they stay at the Happiness Hotel in New York. Bret MacKenzie and Nick Stroller return to be writing for this movie. The human cast include Hugh Jackman (John Potts), Jennifer Connelly (Linda Potts), and Ariel Winter (Juliet Potts).

Plot
After the events of Muppets Most Wanted, the Muppets decide to do a next sequel about themselves who come to New York City to stay at the Happiness Hotel infested with Muppets while trying to get their musical variety show on Broadway. The theater inside the hotel has acts featuring the Zucchini Brothers, Wayne and Wanda, Bobby Benson's Baby Band, a melodrama with Miss Poogy, Uncle Deadly, and Wayne, Elvises performing "Suspicious Minds", Lubbock Lou's Jug Huggers jug band, etc. More info coming soon.

Human Cast

 * Hugh Jackman as John Potts
 * Jennifer Connelly as Linda Potts
 * Ariel Winter as Julie Potts

Guest Star Cameos

 * Jason Alexander,


 * Cedric the Entertainer,


 * Steve Martin,


 * George Clooney


 * Mindy Kaling,


 * Bill Hader


 * Madison Pettis


 * Glenn Close


 * Jane Krakowski


 * Idina Menzel,


 * Santino Fontana


 * Kristin Chenoweth


 * Mayor Michael Bloomberg


 * Whoopi Goldberg


 * Lilla Crawford


 * Jon Hamm,

Muppet Characters

 * Muppet Characters (speaking)
 * 80's Robot, Afghan Hound, Animal, Babies, Beaker, Bean Bunny, Beauregard, Behemoth, Big Mean Carl, Bobby Benson, Bobo the Bear, Bubba the Rat, Camilla, Chickens, Chip, Constantine, Crazy Harry, Denise, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Dr. Teeth, Elvises, Floyd Pepper, the Flying Zucchini Brothers, Foo-Foo, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Hobos, Janice, Kermit, Lew Zealand, Link Hogthrob, Lips, Marvin Suggs, Miss Piggy, Miss Poogy, The Newsman, Penguins, Pepe the King Prawn, Pigeons, Pops, Rizzo, Robin, Rowlf, Sam Eagle, Scooter, Statler and Waldorf, the Swedish Chef, Sweetums, Uncle Deadly, Walter, Wayne and Wanda, Yolanda Rat, Zoot
 * Background Muppets (non-speaking)
 * Andy and Randy Pig, Angelo, Annie Sue, Angel Marie, Baskerville, Beautiful Day Monster, Bertha, Bill (frog), Black Dog, Blind Pew, Blustering Bellowpane Monster, Brewster, Bubba, Bugsy Them, Bulls, Calico, Camel, Captain Pighead, Carter, Catgut, Chopped Liver, Cockatoo,  Cynthia Rose,  Croaker, Crocodile, Cynthia Rose, David Hoggselhoff, Debbie, Dead Tom, Dr. Julius Strangepork, Droop, Dr. Phil Van Neuter, The Early Bird, Forcryingoutloud Bird, Frackles, Frogs, Geri and the Atrics, George the Janitor, Gil (frog), Goat, Goggles, Gorgon Heap, Gorillas, Gramps, Hilda, Howard Tubman, Iguana,  J.G., James Bobin Muppet, Jill (frog), Johnny Fiama, Kangaroo, Laughing Boy, Lenny the Lizard, Louis Kazagger, Lubbock Lou, Luncheon Counter Monster, Mad Dog, Mahna Mahna, Male Koozebanian, Mildred Huxtetter, Mo Frackle, Mr. Poodlepants, Muppets Tonight band drummer, the Mutations ,Nigel the Conductor, Nigel the Director, Ohboy Bird, Ohreally Bird, Old Tom, One-Eyed Jack, Pigs, Pokey, Prairie Dogs, Quongo the Gorilla, Rabbits, Rats, Righton Bird, Sal Minella, Scruffy, Shaky Sanchez, Shark, Sheep, Singing Food, Slim Wilson, Snowths, Thingy-Thing, Thog, Trumpet Girl, Turkey, Undertaker, Unicorn, Walleye Pike, Whatnots, Zeke, Zelda Rose

Muppet Performers

 * Steve Whitmire as Kermit the Frog, Foo-Foo, Statler, Beaker, Lips, Flash, Rizzo the Rat, Link Hogthrob, The Newsman, Bean Bunny
 * Eric Jacobson as Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Sam Eagle, Marvin Suggs, George the Janitor, Mulch, Baby, Bert, Grover, Oscar the Grouch
 * Dave Goelz as Gonzo, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Zoot, Beauregard, Waldorf, Baby, Chip
 * Bill Barretta as Bobo the Bear, Big Mean Carl, one of the Elvises, Johnny Fiamma, Pepe the King Prawn, The Swedish Chef, Rowlf the Dog, Dr. Teeth, Behemoth, Bill the Bubble Guy, Doglion, Baby, Lead Hobo Muppet
 * Peter Linz as Walter, Skeeter, Baby
 * David Rudman as Scooter, Janice, Wayne, Bobby Benson, Miss Poogy, Sal Minella, Seymour the Elephant, Dr. Phil Van Neuter, Mildred Huxtetter, Gorgon Heap, Cookie Monster
 * Matt Vogel as Floyd Pepper, Lew Zealand, Crazy Harry, Robin the Frog, Camilla, Sweetums, Uncle Deadly, Pops, '80s Robot, Beard, Emily Bear, Constantine, Big Bird (voice)
 * Alice Dinnean as Hilda, Wanda, Baby
 * Ryan Dillon as Clifford, Leon
 * Lucas Grabeel and Carey Stinson as Big Bird's body (double puppeteering)
 * Rebecca Wilson (dancer) - Kermit (alternate puppeteer)
 * Tyler Bunch as Thog, Blind Pew, Angelo, Baby, Hobo, Old Tom
 * NY Muppet Performers : Martin P. Robinson (Zucchini Brother), Carmen Osbahr (Baby), Joey Mazzarino (Zuchinni Brother), Stephanie D'Abruzzo (Vicki), John Tartaglia (Zucchini Brother), Pam Arciero (Yolanda Rat, Afghan Hound), Louise Gold (Annie Sue), Julianne Buescher (Denise,)
 * Additional  NY Muppet Performers : Anthony Asbury, Heather Asch, Jennifer Barnhart   Billy Barkhurst (Ernie),  Lisa Buckley, Leslie Carrara-Rudolph, Melissa Creighton, Frankie Cordero,  Carol Farabee (Ernie's right hand),  James Godwin, BJ Guyer, Andy Hayward, Patrick Holmes, Haley Jenkins, John Kennedy (Baby), Jim Kroupa, Tim Lagasse, Michael Latin, Michael Lisa, Amanda Maddock, David Matthew Feldman, Ed May (Mutation), Tracie Mick, Paul McGinnis (Baby), Lara MacLean, Noel MacNeal (Baby), Marc Petrosino,  Carey Stinson  Andy Stone, Ian Sweetman, Chris Thomas Hayes
 * LA Muppet Performers : David Barclay, Tim Blaney, Kevin Carlson, Nathan Danforth, Tanya Haden, Patrick Johnson, Sean Johnson, Brian Jones, Donna Kimball, James Murray, Bruce Lanoil (Hobo), Drew Massey, Ted Michaels, Michael Oosterom, Karen Prell, Michael Quinn, Brett O'Quinn, Michelan Sisti, David Skelly, Allan Trautman, Victor Yerrid, Art Vega, Alex Villa, Chase Woolner

Trivia

 * The Happiness Hotel of New York (formerly the Muppet Hotel), a free hotel but not always dissipating as the one in London, has 4000 deluxe rooms, four restaurants including a buffet, a swimming pool and waterpark, a petting farm, a 5,000,000 gallon aquarium, a concert, an IMAX movie theater, a nightclub, a comedy club, eight ballrooms, a convention center, a conference room, a video arcade, a live stage theater, a spa, a business center, a fitness center, a transit station with a bus, taxi, and shuttle, a pet resort, and even a monster resort.
 * Skeeter makes her official non-animated debut in the Muppets franchise. Her puppet is recycled from a Scooter puppet from 2002-2010 and she resembles what she really looks like in the four-part Family Reunion Muppet Show comic book issues.
 * This movie will be filmed at Kaufman Astoria Studios in New York City, New York (that is where Sesame Street is taped since 1992).
 * The obscure characters from Fraggle Rock (including Sprocket) and "Dog City" make their first appearance on a Muppet film since Muppet Treasure Island when The Jim Henson Company, who owns Fraggle Rock and "Dog City", gives Disney permission to use them for this movie as background characters.
 * Working titles for this movie include "The Muppets 3" and "The Muppets...Once Again".
 * The Muppet Babies will return for their puppet appearance during their flashback as babies.
 * A new full-body Muppet debuts in this movie: this time a full-body Muppet elephant that is manipulated by two Muppeteers, one performing in the front using his arm to manipulate its trunk (like Marty Robinson and (the late) Jerry Nelson performing Snuffleupagus on "Sesame Street") and an additional one performing in the back.
 * A very large Muppet dragon takes about five Muppeteers to operate it.