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Lynne Marie Stewart & Drew Powell in The Pee-Wee Herman Show

Lynne Marie Stewart & Drew Powell in The Pee-Wee Herman Show


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SBV's Lynne Marie Stewart & Drew Powell will be live on stage in The Pee-Wee Herman Show running January 12th thru February 7th at Club Nokia . The Pee-wee Herman Show debuted at The Groundlings Theatre in 1981, then moved to the Roxy Theatre on Sunset Strip for five sold out months. Taped as part of HBO's On Location series, the show catapulted Pee-wee into the national consciousness. It lead to Pee-wee's many appearances on Late Night With David Letterman, followed by a 22-city tour that included Carnegie Hall. In 1985, Warner Brothers brought Pee-wee to the big screen with Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Tim Burton's feature film debut. Co-written by Reubens, it featured Danny Elfman's first original film score. The CBS television series Pee-wee's Playhouse, premiered in 1986. During its five seasons, the show garnered 22 Emmy Awards. Pee-wee's second film, Big Top Pee-wee was released in 1988. While The Pee-wee Herman Show, and Pee-wee's Playhouse were an homage to an earlier generation's television classics - Howdy Doody, The Mickey Mouse Club, Captain Kangaroo, Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, and The Shari Lewis Show - Pee-wee himself became one of the most original and beloved stars in all of television history and late-century American culture. By the late 90s, even fashion was not immune to the style of Pee-wee as fashion designers like Christopher Bailey, Ennio Capasa, Miuccia Prada, Viktor & Rolf, and Thom Browne imitated the high armholes, short inseams, and tight cut suits that Pee-wee made as his trademark. In 2007, Nike created a version of the Nike SB sneaker loosely inspired by Pee-wee. When Cartoon Network aired the series in 2006, 1.5 million viewers watched every night; the next year TV Guide named the Playhouse among the top 10 cult classics of all time. All of the episodes of Pee-wee's Playhouse have been issued on DVD (and iTunes) and are consistently best sellers. And as Pee-wee was influenced by the television classics that came before him, it is hard to imagine that Blue's Clues or SpongeBob Square Pants would be quite the same without him.

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