1-2-3 Imagine! with Elmo & Friends

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Disclaimer: Some of you may have no idea what I am talking about, but I just had to express my opinion! Lol please feel free to comment anyway.
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Last night, Sesame Street Live introduced it's "latest, newest edition" to it's 2009-10 touring season, 1-2-3 Imagine! with Elmo & Friends. Don't be fooled, this show has toured many other times before; begining in 1996 and a revived version in 2002. This was also the VERY FIRST Sesame Street show I saw when I was a child, so ultimately it has a special place in my heart. This is also the A-list show to the 30th anniversary tour.

I really want to see the show (it will come this way in around 2 years:stick_out_tongue:) because I would like to see what modifications they made to it. Like, I've noticed they have added Abby Cadabby (obviously), but I'm curious to see whether they:
dropped Barkley
dropped Prairie Dawn
gave Roxy Marie a non-speaking understudy role/or kept her speaking
gave Grover a speaking role or if he remained an understudy
added Telly, who wasn't in the original tours
dropped the EW segment they added in the 02' shows

Yeah, this tour would be a prime example of how much SS has changed over these last years.:big_grin: After all, you can't expect these kiddies to actually know who Roxy Marie is. However, I would be sad if they did drop Barkley & Prairie, even though Prairie had no lines! On the contrary, I'd love it if the gave Grover a speaking part and added Telly into the show (having no Telly really seemed strange since he plays a big part in the storylines).

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I'm rather unimpressed with the set, since VEE Corporation has done A LOT better with set designs in the past. This looks like a combination of the Elmo Makes Music set & the 2002 1-2-3 Imagine stage. The 1996 one was pure gold(not literally). I was hoping they would have went for that one, since it would have been a throwback to the past.

It's exciting to see where this show goes, and I'll be on the lookout for more details.
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Prairie and Barkley have indeed been dropped... Very sad, I know. Roxy still has all her lines. Abby has most of Zoe's lines and Zoe, surprisingly, is SMALL UNDERSTUDY! Telly's not in the show. Grover's in it but has no lines. Grover's performer also plays Abuela and Uncle Grizzly I think. Very wierd cast for this show, huh? :stick_out_tongue:
 

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Prairie and Barkley have indeed been dropped... Very sad, I know. Roxy still has all her lines. Abby has most of Zoe's lines and Zoe, surprisingly, is SMALL UNDERSTUDY! Telly's not in the show. Grover's in it but has no lines. Grover's performer also plays Abuela and Uncle Grizzly I think. Very wierd cast for this show, huh? :stick_out_tongue:
Lol yes indeed! Mostly on Zoe's part. Though I love the Roxy Marie character, she could have been dropped, & made Grover take her lines (I kind of see him in the 'Camp Wanna Go Home' thing); if they dropped EW, they could have made room for an Abby scene(Elmo would still have the Africa scene), and still had Zoe sing "I Don't Want to Live On the Moon" in the end(and possibly made Prairie the small understudy, and somehow found a way to keep Barkley; like giving him & Baby Bear the same performer.). Really, if Roxy still keeps her lines for this, then she should have kept them in WEGU. Anyways, Telly COULD have been a tall understudy, and had a Honker(*cough* blue) just in the show but playing other minor characters throughout/or vice-versa. As far as the stage, they really should have done the stage of Let's Be Friends(the curtain is the bomb, lol), and kept the original scenery of the original 1-2-3. They REALLY messed up on that part, and considering it's the 30th anniversary...wow, it's like a slap in the face.
 

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Technically they're not doing the whole 30th anniversary celebration until next year with their new show, which makes sense, since SSL premiered in Fall 1980. I guess they're waiting till Fall 2010... exactly 30 years.
 

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Technically they're not doing the whole 30th anniversary celebration until next year with their new show, which makes sense, since SSL premiered in Fall 1980. I guess they're waiting till Fall 2010... exactly 30 years.
Yeah that makes sense. I was thinking of the past shows they had done, which premired one season prior to when the actual anniversary date ( BBSDCO...99' instead of 00', ECB...04' instead of 05'), yet they were still being billed as the big " " anniversary shows.:insatiable:
 

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you're right. that IS how it's been done in the past...
 

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Frankly, I'm surprised they left Roxie Marie in. She is a pretty obscure holdover from the 90's. I'm just shocked Grover doesn't have any lines.
 

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Frankly, I'm surprised they left Roxie Marie in. She is a pretty obscure holdover from the 90's. I'm just shocked Grover doesn't have any lines.
Yeah but honestly, if this happened like say 5 years ago, I wouldn't have been surprised. Now seeing that Grover has actually been playing a prominent role on SS again, now I'm quite surprised. Keep in mind this is a recyled 90's show (a time when SS itself was changing all around) , and around this time Grover was not given huge parts in some shows ( he did not speak in 2 shows, did not appear in 1). So it kind of makes some sense.

Funny, I always imagine Frank Oz in the recording studio around that time being P.O-ed because Grover does not have any speaking parts.
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Grover and Cookie were hard on his voice so I'm sure he didn't mind having a break :insatiable: I think the last show he voiced Grover and Cookie in was Sunny Day Camp Out. After that Eric Jacobson took over for Grover and David Rudman took over for Cookie
 

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Grover and Cookie were hard on his voice so I'm sure he didn't mind having a break :insatiable: I think the last show he voiced Grover and Cookie in was Sunny Day Camp Out. After that Eric Jacobson took over for Grover and David Rudman took over for Cookie
Yeah. I think the thing I'll miss the most though out of his characters is Frank's Bert voice. Though Eric has been doing a good job, you can't compete with Frank's. The recent voices of :super: & :insatiable: have been fantastic though.
 
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