Everyone Makes Music

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Program Guide

Bert, Ernie, Honker, Rosita, The Count, Big Bird, Jenny, Googel, Telly, Zoe, Elmo, Baby Bear

Sesame Street Live 2008 - Elmo Makes Music!

Detroit Public Television's 2008 ad for Elmo Makes Music.

Googel, Elmo and Cookie Monster

Everyone Makes Music was a Sesame Street Live show which premiered in 2001.

In 2006, the show was retitled Elmo Makes Music.

When Jenny, a new music teacher, moves to Sesame Street, she finds that her truck full of instruments is missing. Elmo, Big Bird, Ernie and the gang decide to make instruments for their new friend. The show's songs include "The Hustle," "Rockin' Robin," and "Dance to the Music."

Cast

Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Grundgetta, Grover, Cookie Monster, Bert, Ernie, Elmo, Zoe, Rosita, Baby Bear, Telly Monster, Count Von Count, Prairie Dawn, Roxie Marie and a Honker.

The Monster Clubhouse characters — Mel, Narf, Googel and Phoebe — were included in the original show; they were dropped in the 2006 remount. Abby Cadabby was added to the show in 2011.

Human Cast

• Scottie Haskell as Jenny (2006)
• Kayleigh Shuler as Jenny (2014)

Songs

Act 1

• "Sunny Day"
• "The People in Your Neighborhood"
• "What Makes Music"
• "Singing Up the Scale"
• "Cookie's Gift"
  • "C is for Cookie"
  • "Cookie Crumba Rumba"
• "Letter of the Day"
  • "Jazzy J"
  • "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Alphabet"
  • "Gospel Alphabet"
• "Feet As Music"
  • "Fuzzy & Blue"
  • "All Feets Can Dance"
• "Elmo's World"
  • "Elmo's Song"
  • "Jingle Bells"
  • "What Makes Music?"

Act 2

• "Together We'll Make Music" Jenny, Elmo & Company
• "Bert's Disco" Bert & Company
  • "The Hustle"
  • "You Should Be Dancing"
• "Triangle Cheer" Telly, Zoe, Jenny & Company
• "Rockin' Robin" Big Bird, Baby Bear & Seedy Birds
• "Number Eight" Count, Jenny & "8"
  • "Fame Parody"
• "Honk, Bang, Whistle and Crash" Oscar, Elmo, Zoe & Company
  • "Honk, Bang, Whistle and Crash"
  • "I Love Trash"
• "Thank You for the Music" Elmo, Jenny & Company
  • "Dance To The Music"
  • "Sing"
• "Jenny's Sesame Street Band" Jenny & Company
  • "What Makes Music" Marching Band Version

Performing cast

see Sesame Street Live performers

2006-2007 version

• Les Bowen as Big Bird

2007-2008 version

• Janice Miuccio as Grundgetta
• Elizabeth Osborn as Elmo
• Janel Somers as Jenny/Oscar
• Amanda Sutliff as Baby Bear

2008-2009 version

• Spencer Rose Oberman as Jenny / Rosita (July to December)
• Kelli Kurtz as Jenny / Rosita (December to June)
• Janel Somers as Jenny / Rosita
• Jamie Lyn Critelli as Prairie Dawn, Small understudy
• Arlee Chadwick as Grundgetta, Medium Understudy
• Steven Yerardi as Honker, Tall Understudy (July to March)
• Christofer T. Roseberry as Telly / Mr. Noodle (July to March) as Honker / Mr. Noodle, Tall Understudy (March to June)
• Basseemah Mustaffa as Elmo
• Cassandria Mills as Zoe
• Christie Anstine as Count Von Count / Cookie Monster
• Joseph Christianson as Bert
• George Tommy Smith as Big Bird
• Angelo Williams as Telly (March to June)
• Colleen Kreisel as Ernie (July to December)
• Carmella Adams as Ernie (January to March)
• Carlos Martinez as Ernie (March to June)
• Alicia Grubb as Grover / Baby Bear (July)
• Moses Rodrigues as Grover / Baby Bear (August to May)
• Kristin Mazzulli as Grover / Baby Bear (May to June)

Crew

• Jim Waters, producer
• Christopher Harper, performance director

Notes

• This is the first Sesame Street Live show to feature Eric Jacobson voicing Bert and Grover, and David Rudman as Cookie Monster. Frank Oz voices Bert in some sections, such as the "You Should Be Dancing" number.
• In the 2001 tour, there was a Monster Clubhouse segment until the 2006 tour when it would be replaced by Honk, Bang, Whistle, and Crash.

Soundtrack

• Elmo Makes Music (soundtrack)

International

In January 2006, the show was dubbed and performed in The Netherlands for Sesamstraat's 30th anniversary. Iedereen Maakt Muziek was the second Sesamstraat Live show (following Als Ik Later Groot Ben in 2001).

in 2012, the show was translated into Latin American Spanish but with no alterations to the plot.

In Mexico, Plaza Sésamo: Hace Música (2013) the characters and story changed as Susana (Mariana Garza) returns to Plaza Sésamo after a trip around the world. Lola replaces Rosita.

Program

External links

• Muppet Central review