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Sesame Street Live is the live touring show based on the children's television show Sesame Street. Adapted live stage tours are theatrical or stadium productions based on directly or indirectly on licensed properties Sesame Street is an American educational Children's television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard combining

Produced by Minneapolis-based VEE Corporation, the show opened on September 17, 1980, with a production of Sesame Street Live "Missing Bird Mystery" playing at the Met Center in Bloomington, Minnesota. VEE Corporation is a family entertainment production company founded by Vincent E Events 1176 - The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought 1462 - The Battle of Świecino (or Battle of Żarnowiec Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) The Met Center was an indoor arena that formerly stood in Bloomington Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis Minnesota. Bloomington is the fifth largest city in the US state of Minnesota in Hennepin County, and the third core city of the Minneapolis-St 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. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the This article is about the semi-truck For the North American use of the word see Pickup truck. (This is contrasted with a show that travels by rail, such as the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus was started when the Circus created by James Anthony Bailey and P ) Outside of the United States, air cargo and sea containers are used. Cargo airlines (or airfreight carriers, and derivatives of these names are Airlines dedicated to the Transport of Cargo. Containerization (or containerisation) is a system of Intermodal freight transport Cargo Transport using standard ISO containers

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 Muppets are a group of Puppet characters created by Jim Henson. The productions are done in a theatrical style. Theatre (or theater, see spelling differences) is the branch of the Performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one In an arena, a stage is built and a false proscenium is created to make the experience more similar to going to a theatre. An arena is an enclosed area often circular or oval-shaped designed to showcase Theater, musical performances or sporting events In Theatre, the stage (sometimes referred to as the deck in Stagecraft) is a designated space for the Performance of theatrical productions Proscenium theatre is a Theatre space whose primary feature is a large Archway (the proscenium arch) at or near the front of the stage, through

Vincent E. Egan founded VEE Corporation in 1980. Vincent E Egan is the entrepreneur who created VEE Corporation, which presents productions like Sesame Street Live. Meeting with executives of Children's Television Workshop and Muppets-creator Jim Henson, he struck a long-term deal to be the exclusive creator of life-size replicas of the Sesame Street Muppets for touring stage shows. Sesame Workshop, formerly known as the Children's Television Workshop (or CTW) is a non-profit organization behind the production of several educational children's For other uses of "Henson" see Henson. James Maury "Jim" Henson (September 24 1936 &ndash May 16 1990 was one of

The first Sesame Street Live opened at the Metropolitan Sports Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, September 1980. The Met Center was an indoor arena that formerly stood in Bloomington Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis Minnesota. Bloomington is the fifth largest city in the US state of Minnesota in Hennepin County, and the third core city of the Minneapolis-St It played that Christmas for four weeks at Madison Square Garden, and has been a popular production ever since. Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG, and known colloquially as The Garden, has been the name of four Arenas in New York City. It is the longest running stage tour for children.

The show has been staged in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, the Netherlands, Germany, Bahrain, Mexico, England, Scotland, Wales, Singapore, Australia, Dubai, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Puerto Rico (ˌpwertoˈriko officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ("Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico" {{lang-en|"Associated Free State of Puerto Rico"}} The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (ˈtrɪnɪdæd ən təˈbeɪgoʊ is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying northeast of the South American Barbados ( Portuguese word for bearded-ones, bɑrˈbeɪdoʊz -dɒs situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent Island nation The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The Kingdom of Bahrain (in مملكة البحرين,, literally Kingdom of the Two Seas) is an Island country in the Persian Gulf The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Singapore For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Dubai (in دبيّ,) is one of the seven emirates and most populous city of the United Arab Emirates (UAE Hong Kong ( officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located on China 's south coast on the Pearl River Delta, and borders For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea and often referred to as Korea ( Korean: 대한민국 tɛː The Philippines ( Filipino: Pilipinas, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (fil ''Republika ng Pilipinas'' RP

Productions

In order to keep the show running annually in the same cities, new plotlines are created and rotated through the tour. Because the target audience changes as children grow up, shows are often removed from the rotation for a few years, then return with some modifications.

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

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