Performance

Muppet Treasure Island

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At Museum of the Moving Image, “Muppet Treasure Island” is reframed as a dance event, drawing movement and timing from the Muppets’ 1996 musical take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s pirate tale. The story tracks young Jim Hawkins and the uneasy charm of Long John Silver, played straight enough to sharpen the comedy around him. Its cultural weight in New York is less about premiere lore than endurance: a museum setting treats the film as a living artifact of performance craft, where choreography and puppetry share the same grammar.