"Benefit: New York Zoological Society\r\nProgram listing indicates only \"Bob Hope & Celebrity Cast\"; performers entered here taken from information in booking ledger. \r\nAccording to a 2009 interview for Parenthood.com with puppeteer Caroll Spinney (who portrayed the character \"Big Bird\" on the children's television show \"Sesame Street\"), he was among the performers for this event:\r\n“I was asked to sing ‘People’ on stage with [composer] Jules [sic] Styne,” says Spinney, the puppeteer of two enduring Sesame Street characters, Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. “So there I was [as Big Bird] on stage. I’m reaching the top of the song and I could see the top of Carnegie Hall as I leaned back and sang, ‘People who need people,’” Spinney says, pausing to belt out the words in Big Bird’s unmistakable voice. “I thought, my God, look where I am! Look where Sesame Street has brought me!”\r\n(Source: http://www.parenthood.com/article-topics/40_years_as_a_bird_and_a_grouch.html)\r\n\r\n" . . . "1984-11-28T20:30:00"^^ . "benefit performance" . . . . "Bob Hope and Celebrity Cast" . .