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[[Image:SesameStreetLiveLetsPlaySchoolProgram.jpg|thumb|300px|Program Cover from the mid-1990's (Note that [[Zoe]] is featured).]]
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[[File:LetsPlaySchoolOG.jpg|thumb|300px|Program cover art by [[Joe Mathieu]].]]
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[[Image:SesameStreetLiveLetsPlaySchoolProgram.jpg|thumb|300px|Program cover for later runs of the show, with Elmo and Zoe added.]]
 
[[Image:LetsPlaySchool.still.jpg|thumb|300px|Professor Grover, Bert, Ernie, and Prairie Dawn]]
  
[[Image:LetsPlaySchool.still.jpg|thumb|300px|Professor Grover, Bert, Ernie, and Prairie Dawn]]
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[[Image:LetsPlaySchoolCast.jpg|thumb|300px| Let's Play School Cast]]
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[[File:1000524_10151820525344085_232902414_n.jpg|thumb|300px|Professor Grover and Big Bird]]
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[[Image:LetsPlaySchoolCast.jpg|thumb|300px|Let's Play School Cast]]
 
'''Let's Play School''' is a ''[[Sesame Street Live]]'' show first produced by [[VEE Corporation]] in [[1990]]. It was repeated in 1995 and 1998.
  
'''Let's Play School''' is a ''[[Sesame Street Live]]'' show first produced by [[VEE Corporation]] in [[1990]]. It was repeated in 1995 and 1998.
   
 
==Plot==
  
==Plot==
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[[Professor Grover|"Professor" Grover]] teaches the gang all about school. He gives his students an assignment of bring something for show-and-tell and [[Big Bird]] can't decide what to bring.<ref>"[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kJ5IAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TQsNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3626,5038368&dq=sesame+street+live+school&hl=en "Sesame Street Live Brings The Classroom To The Coliseum"], ''The Post and Courier'', 28 May 1998.</ref>
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[[Professor Grover|"Professor" Grover]] teaches the gang all about school. He gives his students an assignment to bring something for show-and-tell and [[Big Bird]] can't decide what to bring.<ref> "Sesame Street Live Brings The Classroom To The Coliseum", ''The Post and Courier'', 28 May 1998.</ref>
   
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==Cast==
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==Characters==
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[[Big Bird walk-arounds|Big Bird]], [[Oscar the Grouch walk-arounds|Oscar]], [[Grundgetta walk-around|Grundgetta]], [[Bert walk-arounds|Bert]], [[Ernie walk-arounds|Ernie]], [[Grover walk-arounds|Professor Grover]], [[Cookie Monster walk-arounds|Cookie Monster]], [[Elmo walk-arounds|Elmo]], [[Prairie Dawn walk-arounds|Prairie Dawn]], [[Honker walk-arounds|Honkers]], [[Betty Lou walk-around|Betty Lou]], and [[Zoe walk-arounds|Zoe]]
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[[Big Bird walk-arounds|Big Bird]], [[Grover walk-arounds|Grover]], [[Bert walk-arounds|Bert]], [[Ernie walk-arounds|Ernie]], [[Cookie Monster walk-arounds|Cookie Monster]], [[Prairie Dawn walk-arounds|Prairie Dawn]], [[Count von Count walk-arounds|The Count]], [[Elmo walk-arounds|Elmo]], [[Oscar the Grouch walk-arounds|Oscar the Grouch]], [[Grundgetta walk-around|Grundgetta]], [[Betty Lou walk-around|Betty Lou]], [[Barkley walk-around|Barkley]], [[Honker walk-arounds|Green Honker, Gold Honker, Pink Honker]], Amanda, Jodie; Special Appearances by [[Q]] and [[U]]
   
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;Note
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==Performer cast==
  
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*[[Zoe]], who first appeared as [[Zoe walk-arounds|a stage character]] in 1994's ''[[Let's Be Friends]]'', was added to the cast in later versions of the show.
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==Voices==
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*[[Jim Henson]] as [[Ernie]]
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*[[Frank Oz]] as [[Bert]], [[Cookie Monster]] and [[Grover]]
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*[[Caroll Spinney]] as [[Big Bird]] and [[Oscar the Grouch]]
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*[[Pam Arciero]] as [[Grundgetta]]
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*[[Jerry Nelson]] as [[Count von Count|The Count]]
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*[[Fran Brill]] as [[Prairie Dawn]] and [[Betty Lou]]
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*[[Kevin Clash]] as [[Elmo]]
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*[[Fred Garbo]] as [[Barkley|Barkley the Dog]]
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==Performer Cast==
 
* Leesa Osborn as Prairie Dawn
  
* Leesa Osborn as Prairie Dawn
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==Acts==
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'''Act I:'''
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*Going to School
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*Roll Call
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*Spelling Class
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*Music Class
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*Reading Class
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'''Act II:'''
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*A Lesson in Safety
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*Math Class
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*A Very Special Guest
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*Show and Tell
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*Goodbye Friends
   
 
==Songs==
  
==Songs==
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'''Original Songs'''<br><small>Lyrics by Decker Velie; Music by Peter Johnson</small>
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* "[[Listen to Your Heart]]" - Prairie Dawn
  
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*Good Friends, Let's Play School
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*Listen to Your Heart
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*Show and Tell
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*The Whatta Whatta Name Game<br><font size="1">Lyrics by Decker Velie, Jane Lancelloti and Peggy Poore</font>
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'''Music'''
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*[[Sesame Street Theme]]
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*[[The People in Your Neighborhood|People in Your Neighborhood]]
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*Come On and Count<br><font size="1">Words and Music by [[Paul Walberg]]</font>
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*The Music Goes 'Round and Around
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*Willie and the Hand Jive
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*The Bunny Hop
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*I Only Want to Be with You (spoofed as "I Only Want to Be with Q")<ref name="nytimes">[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E7D6133FF933A15751C0A96E958260 New York Times review], February 20, 1998</ref>
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*[[The Music Man|Till There Was You]]
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*[[Together Wherever We Go]]
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*[[Side by Side]]
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*[[Bonanza|Bonanza Theme]]
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*[[Orange Blossom Special]]
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*[[Jambalaya|Jambalaya (On the Bayou)]]
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*[[Down on the Corner]]
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*[[The First Day of School]]
   
 
==Credits==
  
==Credits==
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* Executive Producer: Vincent E. Egan
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* Produced by [[Bob Shipstad]]
 
* Written by [[Nancy Sans]]
  
* Written by [[Nancy Sans]]
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* Directed and Choreographed by Marilyn Magness
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* Produced by Bob Shipstad
  
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* Art Direction by Jim Waters
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* Directed by Douglas Kinsley
  
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* Music Direction by Peter Johnson and The Music Staff
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* Lighting Direction by David Agress
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* Character design by Jim Henson, [[Don Sahlin|Donald Sahlin]], [[Caroly Wilcox]], [[Kermit Love]], [[Michael K. Frith]]
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* New Sesame Street Live Characters designed by Jim Henson, Michael K. Frith
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* Costumes designed and built by [[The Jim Henson Company|Jim Henson Productions, Inc.]]
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** Design and supervision of construction: [[Connie Peterson]]
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** Assisted by Tom McAlister, Michelle Matland, [[Jason Weber]], Fate Kreinberg, Don Creech
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** Additional costumes designed by [[Polly Smith]], [[Julie Zobel]]
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* Vocal Recording Coach: [[Dave Conner]]
   
 
==Note==
  
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* According to Jim Waters and Douglas Kinsley, "this Sesame Street Live Show is the last time [[Jim Henson]] recorded the voice of Ernie before his death."<ref>"[http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/projo/access/577628541.html?dids=577628541:577628541&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+20%2C+1992&author=JIM+SEAVOR+Journal-Bulletin+Arts+Writer&pub=The+Providence+Journal&desc=ON+STAGE+%27Street%27+gang+hits+books+Big+Bird+and+pals+will+%27Play+School%27&pqatl=google 'Street' gang hits books Big Bird and pals will 'Play School'], 20 February 1992.</ref>
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* According to Jim Waters and Douglas Kinsley, this ''Sesame Street Live'' show was the last time [[Jim Henson]] recorded the voice of Ernie before his death.<ref>'Street' gang hits books Big Bird and pals will 'Play School', 20 February 1992.</ref>
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==See also==
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* [[Let's Play School (book)]], a 1984 Talk 'n Play book-and-tape set
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* [[Let's Play School (View-Master)]], a 1988 View-Master Interactive Vision game
   
 
==Sources==
  
==Sources==
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==External links==
  
==External links==
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* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E7D6133FF933A15751C0A96E958260 New York Times review], February 20, 1998
  
 
* [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lhEVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RAMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7003,342307&dq=sesame+street+live+school&hl=en Toledo Blade - "Sesame Street Live's classroom act], March 1, 1992
  
* [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lhEVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RAMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7003,342307&dq=sesame+street+live+school&hl=en Toledo Blade - "Sesame Street Live's classroom act], March 1, 1992
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* [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=0F4FB18337AC2938&p_docnum=1 Dayton Daily News review], September 21, 1990
  
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__NOWYSIWYG__
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[[Category: Sesame Street Live Shows]]
  
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[[Category:Sesame Street Live Shows]]
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[[Category:School]]

Revision as of 01:40, 27 May 2019

LetsPlaySchoolOG

Program cover art by Joe Mathieu.

SesameStreetLiveLetsPlaySchoolProgram

Program cover for later runs of the show, with Elmo and Zoe added.

LetsPlaySchool

Professor Grover, Bert, Ernie, and Prairie Dawn

1000524 10151820525344085 232902414 n

Professor Grover and Big Bird

LetsPlaySchoolCast

Let's Play School Cast

Let's Play School is a Sesame Street Live show first produced by VEE Corporation in 1990. It was repeated in 1995 and 1998.

Plot

"Professor" Grover teaches the gang all about school. He gives his students an assignment to bring something for show-and-tell and Big Bird can't decide what to bring.[1]

Characters

Big Bird, Grover, Bert, Ernie, Cookie Monster, Prairie Dawn, The Count, Elmo, Oscar the Grouch, Grundgetta, Betty Lou, Barkley, Green Honker, Gold Honker, Pink Honker, Amanda, Jodie; Special Appearances by Q and U

Note

Voices

Performer Cast

  • Leesa Osborn as Prairie Dawn

Acts

Act I:

  • Going to School
  • Roll Call
  • Spelling Class
  • Music Class
  • Reading Class

Act II:

  • A Lesson in Safety
  • Math Class
  • A Very Special Guest
  • Show and Tell
  • Goodbye Friends

Songs

Original Songs
Lyrics by Decker Velie; Music by Peter Johnson

  • Good Friends, Let's Play School
  • Listen to Your Heart
  • Show and Tell
  • The Whatta Whatta Name Game
    Lyrics by Decker Velie, Jane Lancelloti and Peggy Poore

Music

Credits

Note

  • According to Jim Waters and Douglas Kinsley, this Sesame Street Live show was the last time Jim Henson recorded the voice of Ernie before his death.[3]

See also

Sources

  1. ↑ "Sesame Street Live Brings The Classroom To The Coliseum", The Post and Courier, 28 May 1998.
  2. ↑ New York Times review, February 20, 1998
  3. ↑ 'Street' gang hits books Big Bird and pals will 'Play School', 20 February 1992.

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