Around the World

Around The World is the fourth Sesame Street Live stage show, produced by VEE Corporation from 1983-1985.

Story

Cookie Monster is a contestant on a TV quiz show hosted by Guy Smiley. When Cookie Monster is declared the winner, Guy Smiley gives Cookie Monster a choice of a world tour for himself and his friends or a delicious chocolate chip cookie as his prize. The gang urges Cookie to take the trip, telling him about all the kinds of food he can sample in different countries. Cookie Monster picks the trip, and his friends travel around the world.

Acts

Act 1:

• Hello, How Are You?
• Pick Your Prize
• Mexico - Herry Monster, Ernie, Bert, and three Seedy Birds do a Mexican hat dance.
• Italy - Herry Monster, Grover, and Cookie Monster take a gondola ride and get homesick for their mommies that they sing "Furry Blue Mommy of Mine"
• London - The Count and the Honkers do a rock dance around the Big Ben Clock and sing "Honk Around the Clock."
• Dance Myself to Sleep - Ernie and Bert
• Toy Train
• Somebody Come and Play - Prairie Dawn
• Paris - The Cast sing "Pat Pat Patty Pat"

Act 2:

• China
• AB-C-DEF-GHI - Big Bird
• Transylvania
• Switzerland - Grover and Cookie Monster
• I Don't Want to Live on the Moon - Ernie and Prairie Dawn
• USA - The Cast sing "Stars and Stripes Forever"

Gallery

The Around the World television commercial showed the Sesame characters' bags packed for their trip.

Cast

Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Bert, Ernie, Cookie Monster, Guy Smiley, Prairie Dawn, Grover, Count von Count, Forgetful Jones, Clementine, Simon Soundman, Herry Monster, The Seedy Birds, Honkers, Granny, Mona Monster, Pinkie Monster, Starr Filter

Vocals

• Jim Henson as Ernie and Guy Smiley
• Frank Oz as Grover, Bert and Cookie Monster
• Caroll Spinney as Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird
• Jerry Nelson as the Count
• Richard Hunt as Forgetful Jones
• Fran Brill as Prairie Dawn
• Kathy Mullen as Granny

Songs

• How Do You Get from Here to There?

Production Credits

• Produced by Bob Shipstad
• Written by Jon Stone and Joseph A. Bailey
• Directed and Choreographed by Miriam Nelson
• Music Director by Paul Walberg
• Dialog Editing, Music Recording & Mixing by Allen Kaufman

External links

• Pete Bishop, "Sesame Street takes fun-filled world tour" (review), The Pittsburgh Press, 24 January 1985.
• "Sesame Street' Great For Crumb-crushers", The Palm Beach Post, 28 September 1984