Sat 5/30 @ 4PM

Joe Hennes’ “The Magic of the Muppets,” is a show about the Muppets for adults, although it’s described as safe for kids, should yours be interested in a more sophisticated take on the puppets created by Jim Henson in the mid ’50s. Those puppets became widely known through their appearances on the wildly popular kids’ show Sesame Street, which debuted in 1969 and still running, and The Muppet Show (1976-1981), their fame outliving their creator who died in 1990.

 Hennes, who was born and raised in northeast Ohio and graduated from Brush High School, is editor in chief of ToughPigs.com, a site for adult fans of the Muppets. He calls himself “a professional Muppets fan,” a title he’s certainly earned. He worked for Sesame Street for a decade, has produced Muppet panels at Comic-Con and led tours of Muppet movie locations in New York City. At ToughPigs.com he’s published interviews with numerous Muppet-related figures and talked to celebrities about their relationship to the Muppets.

His show, which he’s bringing to the Irishtown Bend Taproom in Ohio City, is a two-hour program devoted to telling the story of Henson and his creations. It reaches back to their earliest commercial appearances, covers their Sesame Street and Muppet Show years, and talks about the Muppet films, related music and Henson’s own creative process.

Go here for tickets. We’re warned it sold out the last time it was in town so grab them now.