Barney's Birthday Bash
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Barney's Birthday Bash or Barney Live in Concert - Birthday Bash is a live show that was directed and choreographed by Sloan Bayer, who also directed and choreographed all of the Sesame Street live shows that we are all familiar with. The costumes of Barney, Baby Bop, BJ, and Riff were created by V Entertainment instead of HIT Entertainment.
The show premiered on November 19, 2010, to families in Tulsa ages 2 to 7.
Cast Dinosaurs Dean Wendt - Barney Julie Johnson - Baby Bop Patty Wirtz - BJ Michaela Dietz - Riff
Chorus/Ensemble
The ensemble cast consists of a group of four actors and actresses. In case one (or two) of them can't perform, the others can cover for them. The human cast only has two named characters, which was "Alex" and "Jessie". The rest of the ensemble used their names. The four ensemble members also cover for the actors playing the dinos.
Joel (Nick Nunez / Joel Pellini / Megan Godin) Alex (Nick Nunez / Joel Pellini) Jesse (Nick Nunez / Joel Pellini) Jessie (Megan Godin / Madison Turner (March 2011 - Dec. 2011)) Megan (Megan Godin / Jennifer Margulis (Nov. 2010 - Feb. 2011)) Alison (Alison Warchol) Mr. Kickerbocker (Nick Nunez)
Act 1
Barney dances his way on stage as the “Barney Theme Song” plays. Seeing the audience makes Barney happy that he sings “If You’re Happy and You Know It”. After the song, Barney’s friends Alex and Jesse arrive on stage. Jesse mentions that both of them have been helping Barney take his birthday tour around the country, prompting the three of them to wonder how the audience arrived at the show. As Joel and Megan arrive, Alex tells the audience that they all arrived on a bus, asking them to sing “The Wheels on the Bus”.
After the song, the gang decides to party with the tune “Throw Your Hands Up” with Baby Bop, BJ, and Riff arriving respectively during the song and greeting the audience. After the song, everyone wonders what they can do now. Riff gives BJ the idea to be a magician for the party. He soon arrives with a magician’s hat and wand, attempting to pull a rabbit out of the hat. Unfortunately, he pulls bunny slippers out instead. After BJ’s attempt, everyone watches clips of children seeing what they like to do at parties. One child mentions that they like to sing songs, making Riff suggest they do that at the party. Barney suggests that they make their band using their imagination. With BJ imagining playing the guitar, Riff imagining playing the drums, and Baby Bop imagining to a play a horn, they sing along to “Our Friend Barney Had a Band”, encouraging the audience to join along. After that song, Baby Bop suggests everyone sings “Itsy Bitsy Spider”.
After the song, BJ attempts to pull a rabbit out of his magician’s hat again. Unfortunately, he only got his voicemail. After BJ’s failure, Riff suggests they sing the “Alphabet Song”. After the song, BJ attempts to pull a rabbit out of his magician’s hat for the third time, with only confetti popping out. After BJ’s attempt, a tall man arrives looking for his hat. BJ, Riff, and Baby Bop attempt to guess who the tall man is, with Barney telling everyone that it’s Mr. Knickerbocker, queuing up his self-titled song. After the song, Mr. Knickerbocker leaves, thanking everyone for finding his hat.
Afterward, everyone wonders what more they can do at the party, prompting them to see what their other friends had to say through video clips. All of the kids mention that they like to dance, prompting everyone to start dancing, leading into “The Dino Dance”. During the dance, everyone teaches the audience how to dance along with them. After the song, BJ can’t stop dancing, leading into “Rock Like a Monkey” due to him “monkeying” around. After the song, Barney mentions that he’s been dancing for ages. Riff and BJ then ask if he can dance like how they’re dancing, leading into the song “Move It Like This”. After the song, confetti rains down on the stage, prompting everyone to clean up as they sing “Clean Up”. After the song, BJ mentions how all the cleaning made him worn out, suggesting that they take a break, leading into intermission.
Act 2
BJ is the first one back after intermission and begins to sing “A Rock N Roll Star”, with the ensemble joining him in song as he pretends to be a rock star back from his “world tour”. After the song, Baby Bop and Riff arrive, helping set up decorations for Barney’s birthday party, leading them to sing “Together, Together”. After the song, Barney arrives and notices all the colorful decorations, leading them to sing “Colors All Around”.
After the song, BJ suggests that the party needs games, prompting everyone on stage to ask the audience what kind of games they like to play. They decide to play the game Barney Says. One of the things Barney says to do is hop, making Baby Bop hop around, leading into “The Baby Bop Hop”. Afterward, Barney tells everyone to make a silly sound, leading into the song “Silly Sounds”. After the song, Barney tells everyone to clap their hands three times and then five times. With the familiar claps, everyone then sings “The Clapping Song”.
Barney and friends sing "If All the Raindrops" as they dance with umbrellas.
After the song, Baby Bop and BJ become hungry, prompting Barney to see what their friends (via video) like to eat for treats. The children mention a variety of sweet treats, leading into “If All the Raindrops” with the cast dancing with their umbrellas. After the song, they decide to have ice cream, leading into “Icy, Creamy Ice Cream”. After the song, Barney mentions that it’s good to eat healthy food as well, leading into “Snackin' on Healthy Food”. During the song, the ensemble comes out dressed in various healthy foods.
After the song, BJ, Riff, and Baby Bop gift Barney a song, with the three of them singing “What I Like About You”. In return, Barney sings how he'll be "Someone to Love You Forever." Afterwards, the ensemble comes out with presents with a child gifting Barney a birthday card, queuing everyone to sing him “Happy Birthday to You”. The cast celebrates Barney's birthday (while singing “Together With You”) and he reveals his wish: "I wish that our friendship will never end. And it never will, as long as you remember I'm always here, just as close as your imagination." The cast wraps up the show singing the song, "I Love You", and finally, Barney blows out the birthday candles (shown on screen) on his cake.
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Text was copied from Barney Live in Concert - Birthday Bash! at the Barney Wiki, which is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (Unported) (CC-BY-SA 3.0) license.
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