I was asked to cover the Sesame Street Live’s Elmo’s Green Thumb performance now showing at the Dodge theater at last night’s opening night show. Having a 4 year old, they didn’t have to break my arm to get to go. Actually, having grown up on Sesame Street I wanted to catch up with my old friends Elmo, Bert and Ernie.
The whole Sesame Street gang was there last night. The first thing I noticed as soon as we sat down was that the stage was SO BEAUTIFULLY set! The colors blew me away. Bright colors without it being overwhelming or distracting. I had been to the Dodge Theater but it had been quite some time. The way the seats are set up for this show there really isn’t a bad seat to be had.
The show began and aside from the music numbers being really too loud over the speakers, it was great fun throughout the show. The music numbers incorporated all genres of music. One number was curiously a lot like a High School Musical number. I was thinking it when my 4 year old turned to me and said, “Momma, this reminds me of High School Musical.” There was dancing and rapping and just plain fun music. What would a Sesame Street performance be without the theme song, “Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street” played at least once!
The high energy and music along with the whole Seasame Street gang explaining how Sunny, the sunflower plant that Elmo has grown (literally) to love, needs certain things to help him grow big and tall. They go through all of nature and how we can take better care of the environment. Teaching love along the way, I was impressed at the amount of information given while keeping it on a child’s attention span.
After a 15 minute intermission, the show picked back up and it was even more high energy, upbeat music and the only way that stage could have been prettier was with lights and they did that too. If you have been on the fence about whether or not to take your children to see the Sesame Street Live performance of Elmo’s Green Thumb, I can tell you every child that left last night was very happy and they were all talking about their favorite part of the show. For fun family entertainment at a reasonable price, you really can’t beat this show if you have young children.
Don’t forget to use the code: MOMZONE if you plan to order online tickets http://promo.livenation.com/green/or if you go to the box office to buy your tickets to receive $3 off each ticket purchased. Have fun!
