A Lil' OT: New Sesame Street Musical in Production in Minnesota

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Posted: 2/28/09 at 12:47am

Bert & Ernie, Goodnight! is a musical adaptation of Sesame Street being developed by the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

CTC's A Year With Frog and Toad gained the attention of Sesame Workshop, who contacted the theatre company about a collaboration for Sesame Street. Peter Brosius, artistic director of the CTC, said, "We hired a writer, did a private workshop last summer that the folks from New York flew out to see and fell in love with. We are thrilled about it, obviously, but we're taking it one step at a time."

Barry Kornhauser wrote a treatment for the production which has been approved by Sesame Workshop, in which Bert and Ernie are to be "embodied by two humans, well-known Twin Cities performers Bradley Greenwald and Reed Sigmund."

The show will run first in previews from September 8 to October 25, 2009.

http://www.childrenstheatre.org/
http://www.childrenstheatre.org/releases/2010_season.pdf
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/onstage/39804192.html

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THREE WORDS... OH... MY... "GOODNESS"!
AND I AM AWARE THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH BROADWAY, BUT IT IS A MUSICAL. IDK... THERE ARE SOME 'SESAME' FANS OUT THERE WITH YOUNG CHILDREN.

Updated On: 2/28/09 at 12:47 AM