Elmo's Green Thumb

Cast shot for the show.

Elmo's Green Thumb is a Sesame Street Live show touring during the 2008-2009 season.

The tour premiered on August 21, 2008 in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

The Mandarin version of the show uses native speakers recorded at SDI Media Group, in Los Angeles.

Plot

Abby Cadabby tries to cast a spell to help Elmo's sunflower, Sunny, grow. The spell misfires, causing Elmo, Zoe, Telly Monster and friends to shrink. The Sesame Street gang explores Big Bird's garden from ground level as Abby tries to reverse her spell.

Official Description

Elmo has raised his sunflower, Sunny, from a seed, but his floral friend has outgrown the flower pot. Elmo and friends find Big Bird’s garden the ideal place for Sunny to flourish and grow but they are too excited to wait. Rather than let Sunny follow nature’s course, Abby Cadabby, Sesame Street’s fairy-in-training, casts a spell to make Sunny grow. The spell does just the opposite and, instead of growing, Elmo and all of his friends shrink! While Abby searches for just the right words to reverse the spell, Elmo, Zoe, Telly and friends explore Big Bird’s garden from a smaller perspective and learn some big lessons about patience, overcoming their fears and appreciating the role that each creature plays in our ecosystem – from dancing ladybugs and beautiful butterflies to grouchy beetles that scavenge the garden floor. Will being small help Sunny grow tall? It’s a fresh, original Sesame Street Live from a whole new point of view!

Cast

Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Zoe, Big Bird, Ernie, Bert, Oscar the Grouch, Grundgetta, Rosita, Cookie Monster, Grover, Count von Count, Telly Monster, Baby Bear, Prairie Dawn, Honkers, Sunny the Sunflower, flowers, and ladybugs.

Performer cast

The cast includes 16 performers.

• Christopher Ellis as Big Bird
• Michelle Glapion as Oscar, a ladybug, a flower
• Taylor Morgan as Bert
• Kelly Peters as Elmo
• Janice Miuccio as Purple Honker/ Medium Understudy
• Amanda Sutliff as Grover
• Sheila Murphy as Baby Bear, Grundgetta, Beetle and Ladybug
• Matt Jones as Bert (second half of year 2)

As a marketing effort, Elmo threw out the ceremonial first pitch at a May 3, 2009 game versus the Los Angeles Dodgers, in advance of the show visiting the Nokia Theatre at L.A. Live on May 31.

Songs

see also: Elmo's Green Thumb (soundtrack)

• Twenty Six Letters - The Company
• Sesame Street Theme, Sunny - The Company
• That's How We Got Here - Elmo and The Company
• What a Gift - Big Bird and The Company
• The Garden - Oscar, Grundgetta and The Company
• How Long - The Company
• Garden Song - Big Bird, Baby Bear, Cookie, Bert and Ernie
• New Point of View - Abby, Mrs. Bee and The Company
• When I See Things Differently - Elmo, Zoe, Grover, Rosita, Telly
• Ladybugs' Picnic - Count, the Ladybugs and The Company
• I Love Words - Abby
• What's Going On? - Big Bird, Bert and Ernie
• Trash Medley:
  • We're Moving Trash - Beetles and The Company
  • I Love Trash- Oscar
• Water - Big Bird and Cookie
• Rain Rain Go Away - The Company
• Garden Cha Cha - Rosita and The Company
• Finale Medley
  • Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes - Elmo and The Company
  • New Point of View (Reprise) - The Company

Voices

Voices of Sesame Street Muppets

• Pam Arciero as Grundgetta
• Fran Brill as Zoe
• Leslie Carrara-Rudolph as Abby Cadabby
• Kevin Clash as Elmo
• Eric Jacobson as Bert and Grover
• Jerry Nelson as The Count
• Carmen Osbahr as Rosita
• Martin P. Robinson as Telly Monster
• David Rudman as Cookie Monster and Baby Bear
• Caroll Spinney as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch
• Steve Whitmire as Ernie

Additional Character Voices

• Carmen Carter as Mrs. Bee
• Nicole Wood as Ladybug #1
• Randy Crenshaw as Beetle #1 and Fairy God Uncle Joe

Creative Team

• Writer: Adam Rudman
• Director: Sylvia Hase
• Music Director: Jon Baker
• Choreographer: Bart Doerfler
• Lighting Designer/Programmer: Paul Turner
• Scenic Designer: Steve Bass
• Video Producer: Tom Lieberman

Gallery

Sample pages from the show's program:

front cover

back cover