After introductions, the children show the audience what things they were doing in the treehouse before they arrived, queuing the song “Welcome to Our Treehouse”. He then takes the audience to the treehouse where they’re introduced to Kevin, Cindy, Tony, and Rachel respectively. After the song ends, Barney notices that he has so many friends in the audience, that he can’t see everyone’s smiles, leading him into the song, “If You’re Happy and You Know It”, so he knows that everyone is happy.īarney and the children welcoming the audience to the treehouse.Īfter the song, Barney says that it would make him happy if he introduced the audience to some other friends of his. When he arrives, he greets the audience as he skips. As smoke fills the stage, the "Barney Theme Song" builds and erupts, in which Barney arrives. The announcer announces that this show is made possible by the audience's imagination. The show opens with a Barney plush doll sitting on a stool in the spotlight. On May 19, 1998, Barney's Big Surprise was released on VHS, having the show filmed at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina from December 13-14, 1997. A portion of the proceeds from the tour benefited the Starbright Foundation, which aids seriously ill children. Subsequent productions of the show were performed in Asia from 2004 to 2005, starting with Malaysia in 2004 and Indonesia in 2005, Argentina and Chile in 2005, Uruguay in 2005 to 2006, Peru and Mexico again, in 2006. Along with performances in the US and Canada, the show also toured in Mexico and the United Kingdom in its initial run in 1998. Barney's Big Surprise sold nearly two million tickets during the original run. Originally meant to tour in sixty cities, the tour performed in over eighty cities during its original run. The show's original run ran from 1996 until 1998. The show made its world premiere on Septemat Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas. It was the first national stage show tour based on Barney. Barney's Big Surprise is a stage show that was directed and choreographed by Penny Wilson, written by Stephen White with songs in the show written by various individuals.
0 kommentar(er)
