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| Subject: Pee-wee Herman's Big Comeback!!! Fri Dec 11, 2009 1:58 pm | |
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Pee-wee Herman's Big Comeback
By MIKE CIDONI, Associated Press Writer Mike Cidoni, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 24 mins ago LOS ANGELES –
The star may be Pee-wee, but his new live stage show is absolutely huge.
"The Pee-wee Herman Show," opening next month in downtown Los Angeles at Club Nokia theater, cost millions to mount. It boasts 11 actors, 20 puppets and marks the show's first production since 1982.
So, why now?
"Well, you know, I really want to make a movie version of 'The Playhouse,' my Saturday morning kid show," Paul Reubens said in an interview earlier this week in which he stayed in his exuberant Pee-wee persona.
"This seemed like a great way to do it: Reintroduce it, get back out there, introduce Pee-wee to the new generation that didn't know about it."
An impulsive, sometimes naughty child living a fantastical world, the Pee-wee character first made a big splash with the live "The Pee-wee Herman Show," which debuted at Groundlings theater in Los Angeles in 1981. An HBO broadcast of the show spread the Pee-wee gospel across the country later that year, and a 1985 Tim Burton-directed feature film, "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," was an acclaimed and popular success.
Then came the television series "Pee-wee's Playhouse" (1986-91), which ran for five seasons, earned 22 Emmys and attracted not only children but adults to Saturday-morning television.
Pee-wee was shelved after Reubens' July 1991 arrest for indecent exposure in an adult-movie house in Sarasota, Fla., resulting in a small fine. Reubens, now 57, continued to act, playing characters other than Pee-wee, scoring successes as the Penguin's father in "Batman Returns" (1992) and a 1995 Emmy nomination for a recurring guest role on "Murphy Brown." But Pee-wee would ultimately rise again.
"Well, I went back and forth between wanting to do it and not wanting to do (the new stage show)," Reubens said. "I had a producer that was calling me every two months for two years. And every two months, I would change my mind. And then, finally, one day I woke up and decided, 'This is it, I'm coming back.'"
As with the original stage show, the new production spins around Pee-wee's desire to fly. The menagerie of "Playhouse" characters is back, as are some of the original cast members, including Lynne Stewart as Miss Yvonne, John Moody as Mailman Mike and John Paragon as Jambi the Genie.
"I think I am grateful for my friends," Reubens said. "I am grateful for my fans. I am grateful that people still support me. I am grateful that people are going to buy tickets to come see my fabulous, fantastic, unbelievably incredible show at Club Nokia. ... I hope people have tickets and that is pretty much what I am thankful for."
"The Pee-wee Herman Show" is scheduled to run for a limited four-week engagement, Jan. 12- Feb. 7. | |
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| Subject: Re: Pee-wee Herman's Big Comeback!!! Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:24 pm | |
| Pee Wee Herman has been making appearances on late night talk shows recently. He was on Conan a few weeks ago and on Leno about a month or two ago. It was a little weird. I loved his show as a kid, and I'm happy he''s making a come back. I hope his new stage show is successful. | |
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| Subject: Re: Pee-wee Herman's Big Comeback!!! Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:16 pm | |
| Wow!!! I love Pee-Wee! It's gonna be a great time now because the generation that watched him as a kid is now the generation raising their own kids. | |
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| Subject: Re: Pee-wee Herman's Big Comeback!!! Sat Dec 12, 2009 12:37 pm | |
| Good luck with that, Mr. Reubens. I never had the chance to watch an episode, but I hope to have the chance to see this. | |
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| Subject: Re: Pee-wee Herman's Big Comeback!!! Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:28 pm | |
| I suppose I never "got" him - he always creeped me out just a little | |
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| Subject: Re: Pee-wee Herman's Big Comeback!!! Tue Dec 29, 2009 8:21 pm | |
| ^^^^Ya I know what you mean. I always imagined him to be the type of guy who had bodies in his basement. | |
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| Subject: Re: Pee-wee Herman's Big Comeback!!! Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:12 pm | |
| I could never watch Pee-wee's Playhouse because it always crept me out, despite me liking Pee-wee's Big Adventure. | |
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| Subject: Re: Pee-wee Herman's Big Comeback!!! Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:27 pm | |
| What! I ride or die for Pee-Wee. | |
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