Disney, Nickelodeon, and PBS agree to use characters in a new musical to teach kids about diversity

[CapnHook]

Disney, Nickelodeon, and PBS agree to use characters in a new musical to teach kids about diversity#0

Posted: 11/17/04 at 2:58pm

Don't really think its a show, but rather a musical commercial to air in between programming on PBS, Nickelodeon, and The Disney Channel.

From Animated-News.com:

Animated characters from different networks join forces
The We Are Family Foundation has announced their partnership with some of the biggest names in children's programming to create a DVD to be distributed in schools to promote tolerance and diversity. The project brings together characters from Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, and PBS programs to sing a new version of the song We Are Family. Included are characters from Arthur, Barney, Bear in the Big Blue House, Between the Lions, Blue's Clues, Bob the Builder, The Book of Pooh, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Dora the Explorer, Jimmy Neutron, JoJo's Circus, Kim Possible, Lilo & Stitch: The Series, Little Mermaid, Madeline, The Magic School Bus, The Muppet Show, The Proud Family, Rugrats, Sesame Street, SpongeBob SquarePants, and others. The song will also air simultaneously on Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, and PBS on March 11, 2005.

"This is an unprecedented event: for the first time characters from all of the important kids' shows came together to appear in the same video," said Christopher Cerf, a children's TV/music producer, who, along with Mitchell Kriegman, president of Shadow Projects, spearheaded the production. "The producers and performers from each show embraced the spirit and message of this project. They were thrilled to allow their characters to appear with other characters from different shows simply because they understood the importance and meaning behind We Are Family".

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[broadwayguy2]

re: Disney, Nickelodeon, and PBS agree to use characters in a new musical to teach kids about diversity#1

Posted: 11/17/04 at 3:52pm

tolerance and diversity???

uh oh.. I am sure the Bush Admin... I mean FCC.. will be handing out HUGE fines for this.

[Plum]

re: Disney, Nickelodeon, and PBS agree to use characters in a new musical to teach kids about diversity#2

Posted: 11/17/04 at 5:10pm

Only if they include the gay Teletubby.

[OneBlazeOfGlory]

re: Disney, Nickelodeon, and PBS agree to use characters in a new musical to teach kids about diversity#3

Posted: 11/17/04 at 5:27pm

...or those guys from The Wiggles

But yea, great idea Disney Nickelodeon and PBS... Now why did it take so long to come up with that?

Here in this cold white room tied up to these machines, it's hard to imagine life as it used to be. Laughing, screaming, tumbling queen... Like the most amazing light show you've ever seen. Whirling, swirling, never blue... How could you go and die? What a selfish thing to do... RIP Jason