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Here’s some new rare footage of the two lost stage shows from Sesame Street Live, Big Bird's Super Spectacular Totally Amateur Show and Missing Bird Mystery sourced from news reports from 1981 and 1984.
Ever since 1980, Sesame Street has had a live show franchise called Sesame Street Live, that has spawned more than 30 stage shows for over four decades, despite the stage shows were really successful, a lot material of the classic stage shows have been lost to time and information of it is really obscure.
According to the Lost Media Wiki, full-length video recordings of shows, whether small clips or an entire 90-minute performance, are also near impossible to find. This can greatly be applied to the shows that were produced from 1980 to 2003, particularly due to the fact that recording video back then wasn't as easy as it is now.
By the 2005 show (Super Grover! Ready for Action), KZfaq and various other video-sharing sites had already launched, and minuscule phones with portable video cameras had become mainstream as opposed to bulky camcorders used in past years. Ton of clips of the shows toured after 2005 can easily be found on the internet, but while they aren't exactly in their full format, it can still be a stretch to consider them lost or even "partially found". Meanwhile, there is little to no resurfaced footage of the shows before those years, creating near 25 years worth of lost media.
Apparently, it had been said that every show ever was recorded and stored in VEE Corp's warehouse archives, however, that may have been tarnished due to the fact VEE no longer owns the franchise. It could be likely that Sesame Workshop could own copies of the shows in their archives.
And while the live shows would use songs from the tv series like C is for Cookie and Rubber Duckie, they were often remixed or sung differently. There was also original songs exclusively made for the shows as well, which are also rare to find and Sesame Street Live shows wouldn’t get any soundtrack releases until 1997, which the shows that did got soundtrack releases like Elmo’s Coloring Book, When I Grow Up, Let’s Be Friends, and 1-2-3 Imagine!, all began their tours before 1997, and got their soundtracks released in later years when the shows began touring again years later after they initially stopped.
So until more material of these stage shows surface online and if Sesame Workshop will ever release the professional recordings of those stage shows to the public, if they have them in their archives, these pieces of Sesame Street history will remain completely lost.
Sources: archive.org/details/WMAR_RAW_...
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