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Produced by Minneapolis-based VEE Corporation, the show opened on September 17, 1980, with a production of Missing Bird Mystery playing at the Met Center in Bloomington, MN. Sesame Street Live is now produced as three or four separate tours, each performing a different show, with its own plot, characters, scenery, and soundtrack. Shows are performed in arenas and theatres around the world, generally working on an eight to ten month touring schedule ending in the spring and resuming in the late summer. While in the United States, Sesame Street Live is a bus and truck show, with the equipment moving by two or three trucks and the personnel travelling by bus. (This is contrasted with a show that travels by rail, such as the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.) Outside of the US, air cargo and sea containers are used. Nickname: City of Lakes Motto: En Avant Official website: http://www. ... VEE Corporation is a family entertainment production company, producers of Sesame Street Live, Bear in the Big Blue House Live, Dragon Tales Live, as well as other productions. ... September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... The Metropolitan Sports Center (also known as the Met Center) was an indoor arena that formerly stood in Bloomington, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... Bloomington is a city located in Hennepin County, Minnesota, a suburb south of Minneapolis. ... The driver of this DAF tractor with an auto-transport semi-trailer prepares to offload Skoda Octavia cars in Cardiff, Wales For other meanings, see Truck (disambiguation). ... TheBus, established by Mayor Frank Fasi, is Honolulus only public transit system. ... Ringling Bros. ... FedEx DC-10 Cargo airlines are airlines dedicated to the transport of cargo. ... Containerization is a system of intermodal cargo transport using standard ISO containers (also known as isotainers) that can be loaded on container ships, railroad cars, and trucks. ...

The shows feature original music scores and songs, complemented with old favorites from the show, and professional dancers as costumed characters performing the parts of the Muppets. The productions are done in a theatrical style. In an arena, a stage is built and a false proscenium is created to make the experience more similar to going to a theatre. John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together The Muppets are a group of puppets and costume characters created by Jim Henson and the company he created. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... An arena is a circular or oval shaped (or sometimes rectangular) public space (akin to a classical amphitheatre), designed to showcase theater, musical performances, or sporting events. ... Interior of the 1928 B. F. Keith Memorial Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts. ... A proscenium theater is a theater space whose primary feature is a large archway (the proscenium arch) at or near the front of the stage, through which the audience views the play. ...

Productions

In order to keep the show running in the same city year after year, new plotlines are created and rotated through the tour. Because the target audience changes as children grow up, shows are often retired for a few years, then tour again with some modifications.

In order of their creation, the Sesame Street Live shows have been:

• Missing Bird Mystery
• Big Bird's Super Spectacular Totally Amateur Show
• Sesame Jamboree
• Around the World
• Save Our Street
• Big Bird Goes to Hollywood
• Big Bird and the ABCs
• Big Bird's Sesame Street Story
• Silly Dancing
• Let's Play School
• Sleeping Birdie
• Where's the Birdie?
• When I Grow Up
• Big Bird and Friends
• Let's Be Friends
• 1-2-3...Imagine!
• Elmo's Coloring Book
• Big Bird's Sunny Day Camp Out
• Everyone Makes Music
• Out of This World
• Super Grover! Ready for Action

External links

• Sesame Street Live official site