Sesame Street: 25 Wonderful Years

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'''''Sesame Street: 25 Wonderful Years''''' is the home video version of ''[[Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration]]'' commemorating ''[[Sesame Street]]''’s [[Sesame Street anniversaries|25th anniversary]]. The home video was originally released on October 29, [[1993]] under the title '''''Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration!'''''.

The broadcast and home video versions have the same linking footage but different clips. ''Sesame Street Jam'' focused on celebrity segments, many coming from segments filmed for the 25th season; ''A Musical Celebration'' replaced most of these segments with classic Sesame Street songs. However, they both end with the cast and [[Ladysmith Black Mambazo]] performing "[[Sing]]".

There was at least one difference between the broadcast and video versions (besides title and segments): When [[Savion]] points out to [[Telly Monster]] and [[Prairie Dawn]] that there are dancers everywhere, on the broadcast version, Telly says "and pigs, too", leading to "[[A New Way to Walk]]", but on the video release, after Savion says that there are dancers everywhere, [[Elmo]] appears and says "And cute, little, red, furry monsters too!", leading to "[[Happy Tapping with Elmo]]".

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| The title of the home video is introduced in voice-over as "Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration."

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| Everyone enjoys a day in the park as the calypso version of the [[Sesame Street Theme]] plays.

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| [[Big Bird]], [[Prairie Dawn]] and [[Telly Monster|Telly]] watch as everyone expresses themselves with music, dance and other talents. Big Bird is reminded of a quote his [[Granny Bird]] told him, "[[William Shakespeare|The whole world is a stage]]." Prairie gets the idea to put on a show. Prairie assures them that their search will be an adventure!

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| [[En Vogue]] sings "[[Adventure]]."<br>{{first|2951}}

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| They split up their duties - Telly and Prairie will look for dancers and musicians, while Big Bird looks for "la-la"-ers.

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| Telly and Prairie come across [[Jamal]], [[Angela]], [[Celina]], [[Carlo]], [[The Kids|the kids]] and other Muppets singing an a capella version of "[[Do-Op Hop]]." They've found their singers for the show!

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| Big Bird has formed a "LA LA LINE" to audition la-la-ers. After a failed audition by [[Humphrey]] and [[Baby Natasha|Natasha]], [[Count von Count|The Count]] steps up, not wanting to la-la, but to count those in line. Big Bird thinks his day will drive him batty, cueing the next song...

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| The Count sings "[[The Batty Bat]]".<br>{{first|2096}}

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| The Count swoops in, counting "One wonderful song."

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| [[The Alligator King]]<br>Artist: [[Bud Luckey]]<br>{{first|0411}}

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| The Count counts "Two wonderful songs."

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| [[Oscar the Grouch|Oscar]] sings "[[I Love Trash]]."<br>{{first|2785}}<br>''Introduction cut''

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| The Count counts "Three wonderful songs!"

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| [[Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats]] sing "[[Count it Higher (song)|Count it Higher]]."<br>{{first|0553}}

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| Big Bird's next audition is with a [[Ducks|duck]]. The duck happens to belong to [[The Amazing Mumford]], who knows a spell that will make everyone la-la. Although, when he tries it, the spell instead makes them quack.

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| A montage of songs about [[Rubber Duckie (duck)|Rubber Duckie]], including "[[Rubber Duckie (song)|Rubber Duckie]]", "[[The Honker-Duckie-Dinger Jamboree]]", "[[Put Down the Duckie (song)|Put Down the Duckie]]" and "[[Do De Rubber Duck]]."

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| Mumford tries his trick again, but makes people "baa-baa" like sheep.

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| Telly and Prairie now find a jam session going on and think they're the musicians they need. [[Elmo]], playing the drum, comments that playing it is almost as easy as "A-B-C."

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| [[Cookie Monster]] sings "[[C is for Cookie (song)|C is for Cookie]]"<br>{{first|0372}}

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| [[Grover]] sings "[[Monster in the Mirror]]"<br>{{first|2689}}

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| Telly and Prairie ask Big Bird if he'd like to help them find dancers, but he's busy with his line. The next auditions don't do well, and Big Bird remarks he'll go bananas. [[Joey and Davey Monkey]] pop up at the mention of "bananas." Big Bird gripes "What's next here? Aardvarks?"

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| [[Joe Raposo]] sings "[[I'm an Aardvark]]."<br>''Re-filmed version''<br>{{first|2520}}

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| [[Herry Monster|Herry]] appears to say that he's not an aardvark and proud to be a fuzzy, blue monster.

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| [[Grover]], [[Herry Monster|Herry]], and [[Cookie Monster]] sing "[[Fuzzy and Blue (and Orange)]]."<br>{{first|1644}}<br>''Cuts off before [[Frazzle]] appears''

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| [[Kevin Clash]] sings "[[Skin]]".<br>{{first|2749}}

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| [[Kermit the Frog|Kermit]] sings "[[Bein' Green]]."<br>{{first|0087}}

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| Prairie and Telly run into [[Jason Samuels Smith|Jason]] and [[Savion]] while looking for dancers. Savion tells them that there are dancers everywhere in the park. Prairie comments at all the people dancing.

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| Elmo pops up to add "And cute, little, red, furry monsters too!"

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| "[[Happy Tappin' with Elmo]]"<br>''Introduction and closing cut''<br>{{first|2832}}

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| Footage of [[Baby Tooth and the Fuzzy Funk]] slides across the screen.

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| [[Bert]] sings "[[Doin' the Pigeon]]." ''(intro verses removed)''<br>{{first|0536}}

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| Footage of Baby Tooth and the Fuzzy Funk slides across the screen.

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| [[Ernie]] sings "[[Dance Myself to Sleep]]."<br>{{first|1705}}

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| [[Baby Tooth and the Fuzzy Funk]] - "[[Feel the Beat]]"<br>{{first|2943}}<br>''Part 1 only''

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| Big Bird shows Telly and Prairie Dawn the la-la-ers he's chosen - [[The Martians]]. He tells them they're going to become stars, causing the Martians to vanish for the stars in space.

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| At night, [[Ernie]] sings "[[I Don't Want to Live on the Moon]]."<br>{{first|1910}}<br>''Introduction cut''

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| The next la-la-ers in Big Bird's line is a man who plays accordion, while a chicken clucks. Big Bird begins to lose hope.

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| "[[We Are All Earthlings (song)|We Are All Earthlings]]"<br>{{first|2835}}

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| Big Bird's line is now empty. Mumford tries his trick again, but no one's around to be entranced by it.

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| Big Bird slinks over to a bench and begins singing "[[Sing]]" to himself. [[Ladysmith Black Mambazo]] immediately answers with a chorus of la-las, exactly what Big Bird's been searching for. Mumford tries his trick again, summoning all of Big Bird's friends to sing with him.
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==Releases==
<gallery widths="150">
Image:MusicalCelebrationRH.jpg|{{GNH|VHS}}1993<br>[[Random House Home Video]]
Image:MusicalCelebrationVHS.jpg|{{GNH|VHS}}1996<br>[[Sony Wonder]]<br>LV 51319
Image:a muscial celebration.jpeg|{{GNH|DVD}}1997<br>Sony Wonder<br>LVD 51319
File:New25thanniversary.jpg|{{GNH|DVD}}2008<br>[[Genius Entertainment]]<br>LVD 51319
Image:Noimage-big.png|{{GNH|DVD}}2010<br>[[Warner Home Video]]
AMusicalCelebrationAustralianVHS.jpg|{{GNH|Australia}}VHS, 2005<br>ABC Video for Kids
Sesamestreetamusicalcelebrationelmocize.jpg|{{GNH|Australia (DVD)}}2006<br>ABC Video for Kids
Sesamestreetamusicalcelebrationasianvcd.jpg|{{GNH|Asia (VCD)}}cat. no 91200
</gallery>

==Notes==
*The special was taped in June of 1993.<ref>[http://stephaniedabruzzo.com/sesame-street.html Stephanie D'Abruzzo's official site]</ref> Although some of the human characters introduced in [[Season 25 (1993-1994)|Season 25]] are featured, none of the Muppet characters created for the season appear in the special.

==Cast==
'''Muppets:'''
:[[Big Bird]], [[Telly Monster]], [[Prairie Dawn]], [[Elmo]], [[Cookie Monster]], [[Grover]], [[Herry Monster]], [[The Amazing Mumford]], [[Davey Monkey]], [[Joey Monkey]], [[Count von Count]], [[Merry Monster]], [[Humphrey Monster]], [[Baby Natasha]], [[the Martians]]

'''Background Muppets:'''
:[[Oscar the Grouch]], [[Ernie]], [[Bert]], [[Forgetful Jones]], [[Buster the Horse]], [[Roxie Marie]], [[Kingston Livingston III]], [[The Oinker Sisters]], [[Hoots the Owl]], [[Madame Chairbird]], [[Two-Headed Monster]], [[Polly Darton]], [[Mr. Honker]], [[Dingers|Dinger]], [[Henrietta Honker]], [[Kathleen the Cow]], [[Leo Birdelli]], [[Rosita]], [[Barkley]], [[Penguins]], [[Chickens]], [[Ducks]]

'''Human Cast:'''
:[[Savion]], [[Jamal]], [[Angela]], [[Gina]], [[Maria]], [[Celina]], [[Carlo]], [[Bob]]

'''[[:Category:Muppet Performers|Muppet Performers]]:'''
:[[Caroll Spinney]], [[Martin P. Robinson]], [[Fran Brill]], [[Jerry Nelson]], [[Kevin Clash]], [[David Rudman]], [[Joey Mazzarino|Joe Mazzarino]], [[Pam Arciero]], [[Jim Kroupa|James Kroupa]], [[Noel MacNeal]], [[Jim Martin]], [[Bryant Young]], [[Frank Oz]] (Uncredited: [[Stephanie D'Abruzzo]], [[Alice Dinnean]])

'''[[:category:Sesame Street Cast|Actors]]:'''
:[[Carlo Alban]] (uncredited), [[Alison Bartlett]], [[Annette Calud]], [[Savion Glover]], [[Angel Jemmott|Angel Jemmot]], [[Sonia Manzano]], [[Bob McGrath]], [[Jou Jou Papailler]]

==Credits==
*'''Producer:''' [[Arlene Sherman]]
*'''Writer:''' [[Luis Santeiro]]
*'''Segment Writers:''' [[Sara Compton]], [[Judy Freudberg]], [[Jeff Moss]], [[Norman Stiles]]
*'''Director:''' [[Mustapha Khan]]
*'''Segment Director:''' [[Jon Stone]]
*'''Musical Director:''' [[Robby Merkin]]
*'''Songs by:''' [[Christopher Cerf]], [[Sara Compton]], [[Stephen Lawrence]], [[Jeff Moss]], [[Joe Raposo]], [[Norman Stiles]]
*'''Production Designer:''' [[Victor DiNapoli]]
*'''Muppets, Costumes, and Props supervised by:''' [[Ed Christie]]
*'''Puppet Captain:''' [[Kevin Clash]]
*'''Associate Producer:''' [[Karin Young Shiel]]
*'''Special Thanks to:''' [[Sharon Lerner]], Marjorie Kalins, Frieda Lipp

==Sources==
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