VEE Corporation is a family entertainment production company, founded by Vincent E. Egan in 1980 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Vincent E Egan is the entrepreneur who created VEE Corporation, which presents productions like Sesame Street Live. It is best known for producing Sesame Street Live. Sesame Street Live is the live touring show based on the children's television show Sesame Street. Other VEE-produced shows include Care Bears Live, Dragon Tales Live, Bear in the Big Blue House Live, Muppet Babies Live, and My Little Pony Live! (in conjunction with Hasbro). The Care Bears are a set of characters created by American Greetings in 1981 for use on Greeting cards. Hasbro ( is an American Toy company It is one of the largest toy makers in the world second only to the toy giant Mattel.
VEE has several divisions or closely related companies:
- VEE Production Services (VPS) offers a wide range of development, design, and construction of events and productions for clients such as corporations and non-profit organizations. They provide the construction and support services for the tours operated by VEE.
- Costumes & Creatures (C&C) creates full-body costumes and puppets of all sorts, both for outside clients and the VEE tours.
- Colin Company is the company responsible for selling merchandise at VEE tours.
Productions by VEE
Unless noted, the tour dates noted were in the United States of America, and in later years Canada.
Sesame Street
- Missing Bird Mystery
- A Sesame Street production.
- Run: 1980-1982, 1982-1983 in Australia, 1984-1986, 1990-1991 in Australia, Singapore, and Hong Kong
- Super Spectacular
- A Sesame Street production.
- Sesame Jamboree
- A Sesame Street production.
- Around the World
- A Sesame Street production.
- Save Our Street
- A Sesame Street production.
- Big Bird Goes Hollywood
- A Sesame Street production.
- Run: 1986-1987, 1988-1989
- Big Bird and the ABC's
- A Sesame Street production.
- Big Bird's Sesame Street Story
- A Sesame Street production.
- Silly Dancing
- A Sesame Street production.
- Run: 1989-1991, 1992-1993 in Britain
- Sleeping Birdie
- A Sesame Street production.
- Let's Play School
- A Sesame Street production.
- Where's the Birdie?
- A Sesame Street production.
- Run: 1992-1993 tour, 1993-1994 in Germany, 1994-1995
- Let's Be Friends
- A Sesame Street production.
- Let's Play School
- A Sesame Street production.
- When I Grow Up
- A Sesame Street production.
- 1-2-3. . . Imagine!
- A Sesame Street production.
- Run: 1996 on
- Characters: Bert, Big Bird, Ernie, Elmo, Oscar, Cookie Monster, Zoe, Rosita, Count Von Count, Telly, Prairie Dawn, Honker, Barkley, Roxy Marie, and Baby Bear.
- Everyone Makes Music
- A Sesame Street production.
- Characters: Bert, Big Bird, Ernie, Elmo, Oscar, Grover, Cookie Monster, Zoe, Rosita, Count Von Count, Jenny, Telly, Baby Bear, Prairie Dawn, Phoebe, Googel, and Honker.
- Out of this World
- A Sesame Street production.
- Characters: Bert, Big Bird, Ernie, Elmo, Oscar, Grover, Cookie Monster, Zoe, Rosita, Count Von Count, Terry, Baby Bear, Telly, Prairie Dawn, Grungetta, Honker, and the Yup-Yups.
- Elmo's Coloring Book
- A Sesame Street production.
- Characters: Bert, Big Bird, Ernie, Elmo, Oscar, Grover, Cookie Monster, Zoe, Rosita, Count Von Count, Prairie Dawn, Baby Bear, Telly Monster, Rosita, Honker, and introducing Professor Art, the Palettes, and Blanche the Polar Bear.
Muppet Babies
- Muppet Babies' Magic Box
- A Muppet Babies production.
- Muppet Babies
- Where's Animal?: A Muppet Babies production.
External links
© 2009 citizendia.org; parts available under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License, from http://en.wikipedia.org
network: | |