Bodo

thumb|300px|Brian Froud
After the success of The Dark Crystal, Jim Henson entered talks with Brian Froud about creating a Broadway show, tentatively titled Bodo. With a script by Hugh Wheeler, Froud would design it and it would have the flavor of his illustrations for the 1979 book Master Snikup's Cloak. 
Primarily humanoid, the characters would have been the archetypal Froud peasants, govenours, maidens and animals. The project did not include any fantasy creatures like those found in Froud's other Henson collaborations. The NY Muppet Workshop created prototype masks and costume pieces, but the project was never produced.
Henson first read the play in December 1979Jim Henson's Red Book 12/1-2/1979 – ‘Read BODO.’ and subsequently had various creative discussions with Wheeler throughout 1980. However, by June 1981, Henson's journal stated "drop Bodo."Jim Hens's Red Book 6/19/1981 – ‘Call Larry Gelbart.’
The stage musical, still including goats as characters and now with songs by Lee Pockriss, continued in development without Henson or Froud for an intended Off-Broadway production. It was workshopped in August 1983 for the Goodspeed Foundation (of the Goodspeed Opera House, which eventually hosted the Emmet Otter musical). However, the producer rushed it into rehearsals, initially for December previews, then postponed until January 1984, and finally abandoned that month for lack of capital. The cast had included Square One TV regular Arthur Howard as a leper.Dietz, Dan. Off Broadway Musicals, 1910-2007. 2010. p. 58 
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