5400 N River Rd
Rosemont, Illinois 60018

Calling all super heroes! Super Grover needs your help! Come discover what it takes to get your inner hero ready for action when this new VEE Corporation production zooms into Rosemont. Join Elmo, Zoe, Rosita, Telly Monster and Zoes pet rock Rocco for Sesame Street Live Super Grover! Ready for Action at the Rosemont Theatre from Thursday, May 3 through Sunday, May 6. Tickets for all nine performances go on sale Monday, Feb. 26. The 2006-07 Sesame Street Live tour season is sponsored by Beaches Resorts, the Caribbeans #1 ultra all-inclusive luxury resorts for families featuring exclusive year-round furry fun with your friends from Sesame Street.

When Super Grover loses his superness, Sesame Street needs a hero! Never fear, Elmo, Zoe, Big Bird and friends are here. Get set to join The Fabulous Five, a new team of Sesame heroes, as they work to put the super back in Super Grover. Teaching lessons of healthy habits through song and dance, your favorite Sesame Street friends will explore exercise, nutrition, sleep/energy and hygiene all in a quest to get Super Grover ready for action.

This all-new Sesame Street Live show features an array of popular (and healthy!) songs, many of them renditions of tunes that parents will remember and kids will love: Old MacDonald, Splish Splash, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and Sunny Days. Like televisions Sesame Street, each Sesame Street Live production features timeless lessons for all ages. Through the razzle-dazzle of this full-blown Broadway-quality show, the production will teach children some great healthy habits that they can use long after the show ends. Adults will appreciate the universal appeal of Sesame Street Live, the high-tech stagecraft and cleverly written scripts.

What: Sesame Street Live "Super Grover! Ready for Action"
When: Wednesday May 2 7 p.m. (*WTTW Member Performance)
Thursday May 3 10:30 a.m. & 7 p.m. (**Opening Night Discount)
Friday May 4 10:30 a.m. & 7 p.m.
Saturday May 5 10:30 a.m., 2 p.m. & 5:30 p.m.
Sunday May 6 1 p.m. & 4:30 p.m.
Where: Rosemont Theatre
5400 North River Road
Rosemont, IL 60018
Tickets: $15 and $20. A limited number of $30 Premium seats are also available. *Join WTTW11 for Opening Night on Wednesday, May 2 at 7 p.m. Call 773-509-1111 ext. 6 for more information. **Opening night, all seats (including Premium) are $15. Additional fees and discounts may apply. For more information, call the box office at 847-671-5100. To charge tickets by phone, please call Ticketmaster at 312-559-1212. Tickets may also be purchased online at www.ticketmaster.com. For information online, please visit www.sesamestreetlive.com.

ABOUT SESAME WORKSHOP
Sesame Workshop is a nonprofit educational organization making a meaningful difference in the lives of children around the world. Founded in 1968, the Workshop changed television forever with the legendary Sesame Street. Today, the Workshop continues to innovate on behalf of children in 120 countries, using its proprietary research methodology to ensure its programs and products are engaging and enriching. Sesame Workshop is behind award-winning programs like Dragon Tales, Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat, Pinky Dinky Doo and groundbreaking multimedia productions in South Africa, Egypt and Russia. As a nonprofit, Sesame Workshop puts the proceeds it receives from sales of Sesame Street, Dragon Tales, Sagwa, and Pinky products back into its educational projects for children around the world. Find the Workshop online at www.sesameworkshop.org.

ABOUT BEACHES RESORTS
Beaches Resorts is the ultimate family getaway, where both parents and kids can enjoy a vacation of their own. As a proud sponsor of Sesame Street and Sesame Street Live, Beaches is delighted to welcome some very fun and furry friends to their four family resorts in Jamaica and the Turks and Caicos islands. Beaches has partnered with the celebrated children's program to offer year-round exclusive activities from special character dining and birthday parties to Story Time with Elmo, Dancing with Zoe, baking with Cookie Monster, Going Global with Grover and making music with Bert & Ernie. Parenting seminars and special themed weeks also feature live performances by members of the Sesame Street cast. To round out the excitement, kids enjoy the exclusive Xbox Game Oasis video games centers, Pirates Island water theme parks and expert childcare provided by Beaches' Kids Camps and very own Ultra Nannies. For more information about the Beaches Resorts Caribbean Adventure with Sesame Street call 1-800-BEACHES or visit on-line at www.beaches.com.

ABOUT VEE CORPORATION
Minneapolis-based VEE Corporation is the nations preeminent producer of live touring family entertainment. In 1980, VEE presented the first production of Sesame Street Live, now the longest running childrens tour in history. Today, thanks to 27 years of successful "sunny days," VEE Corporation has toured 17 countries around the globe, and entertained millions of children and families. With unparalleled imagination, ingenuity and expertise in custom brand promotion, VEE Corporation also creates and builds dynamic and effective solutions for corporate, sports, museum and entertainment organizations worldwide. For more information, please visit www.vee.com.


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Added by ajaniszewski on March 5, 2007

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