Hundreds Attend "Barney Live in New York City" Taping at Radio City Music Hall (March 8, 1994)
Barney Live In New York City (originally titled Barney Live! At Radio City, also known as Barney & Friends: Live in New York City) is a Barney & Friends stage show, taped at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on March 6, 1994 and released on video on August 26, 1994. It was also the largest Barney & Friends stage show.
Plot
Barney and his friends take the stage to delight and entertain everyone at Radio City Music Hall. They all work together to make a special surprise for the audience using items from "The Barney Bag". But before they are able to share it, a new visitor, The Winkster, steals the bag and runs away with it. Throughout the show, the gang tries to catch The Winkster and teach him that it is important to have friends and to share. Also, the chase takes everyone to "Barney's Imagination Circus" with fun-loving clowns and some dancing bears.
Cast
Barney (voice) - Bob West
Barney (costume) - David Joyner/Carey Stinson
Baby Bop (voice) - Julie Johnson
Baby Bop (costume) - Jeff Ayers
B.J. (voice) - Patty Wirtz
B.J. (costume) - Jeff Brooks
The Winkster - David Voss/Ashley Wood
Barney understudy - Alan Bruce
B.J. and Baby Bop understudy - Carol Farabee
Shawn - John David Bennett, II
Derek - Rickey Carter
Tosha - Hope Cervantes
Kathy - Lauren King
Carlos - Corey Lopez
Min - Pia Manalo
Julie - Susannah Wetzel
Kelly - Rebecca Wilson
Dancers
Barbara Angeline
Joe Bowerman
Tina Bush
Garland Days
David DeCooman
Vivien Eng
Raymond Harris
Steven Petrillo
Carolyn Ockert
Michelle Robinson
Amy Shure
Kristin Willits
Dana Zell
Guest - Morgan Jordan
Narrator - Charles Edward Hall
Songs
Act One
Barney Theme Song (Tune: Yankee Doodle)
The More We Get Together
Mr. Knickerbocker
Ring Around the Rosie
My Yellow Blankey
The Barney Bag
The Winkster
She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain
B.J.'s Song
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Rain Medley (Rain Rain Go Away and It's Raining, It's Pouring)
If all the Raindrops
And the Green Grass Grows All Around
I Am a Fine Musician
Act Two
Boom, Boom, Ain't It Great to Be Crazy?
The Wheels On the Bus
Three Monkeys Rap
Do Your Ears Hang Low?
The Airplane Song
Me & My Teddy
Four Little Ducks
My Aunt Came Back
London Bridge Is Falling Down
"Star" Medley (Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and Star Light, Star Bright)
Please & Thank You
Everyone Is Special[2]
Sheryl Lyna Stamps Leach (born December 31, 1952) is an American author and creator of the children's show Barney & Friends, along with Kathy Parker and Dennis DeShazer.
Education
Leach holds a bachelor's degree in elementary education from Southern Methodist University (SMU) and a master's degree in bilingual education from Texas A&M University.[2]
Career
In the late 1980s, Sheryl Leach, along with Kathy Parker and Dennis DeShazer, came up with the concept for a children’s television show featuring a purple dinosaur named Barney. They believed that such a character could help young children learn important life lessons and skills in a fun and engaging way. Inspired by their own experiences as parents, they created the character and developed the show’s format.[3]
Leach, a former teacher, worked with Parker and DeShazer on what would become the TV show in 1987. Originally, the star of the show was envisioned as a teddy bear, but since her toddler son sparked an interest in dinosaurs, the character was changed to a dinosaur. Leach and her team created a series of home videos called Barney and the Backyard Gang. The videos were sold directly to the public.[4] In 1991, after Connecticut Public Television employee Larry Rifkin rented a Barney video for his daughter, he spoke with the creators about putting Barney on television.[5] In October of that year, production began on the new TV show, titled Barney & Friends, and in April 1992, it premiered on PBS. Barney went onto receive a number of awards and honors.[6]
Awards
Sheryl Leach’s contributions to children’s programming have garnered her numerous awards. Among other awards, Leach was nominated for the 20th and 23rd Annual [7] She holds an honorary doctorate from Texas A&M University–Commerce.[8]
Philanthropy
Leach and her life partner Howard Rosenfeld have sponsored projects through their philanthropy organization the Shei'rah Foundation, including a number of documentaries[9] and several youth-based media projects.[10]
In 2007, Leach and Rosenfeld designed and built The Smithy, a specialty retail outlet in the village of New Preston in Litchfield County Connecticut, that sells local artisanal foods and handicrafts.[11]
Leach and Rosenfeld are also involved with community development, land conservation projects, and farming organizations in Litchfield County. They own and support two organic farms and were credited by Litchfield Magazine as one of the initiators of the "farm to table" movement in the area.[12] They also co-founded the Farmer's Table Dinner program in 2011 in couldn't with Partners for Sustainable Healthy Communities.[13]
