Hey Everyone, I was in a daze the entire evening.
For whatever reason, My mind is always one step ahead, and I never learn to live in the now... And one of my main missions was wondering if I could 'sneak' into the after party that people where supposed to of paid $500's to get into, so I could ask Kevin Clash to record a radio drop....
Well, here's my story..Full of nerves, I enter the building around 7:00. I quickly wave to Michele as I see her as I am being led to my seat. By this point, I had totally forgotten that other people than Michelle where going to be there, including VC... About 20 minutes or so later, the event starts.
It starts off with the actors being introduced, and their stories of how they got to sesame street... But my favorite part of the whole evening, had to of been when they brought the puppets out. First came one of three favorites as a kid, Oscar. totally classic lines. And we also got to hear about a character I Had forgotten about, Bruno the garbage man. As soon as I heard the description, I could picture him instantly. After Oscar came Zoe....A character I never saw before, since I think it had been introduced past the 80's... After Zoe, Elmo made his entrance...and finally, another character I Had totally forgotten about, but remember liking. Tully. Tully had the best lines of the evening next to Oscar, including how he gets suffocated in a plastic bag... 'I was told not to play with plastic bags!'
I was thinking of sneaking some audio out of the event, but figured they might see the blue of the media player and decided against it. I DID, however, manage to get into the after party that was SUPPOSED to be $500's per person....but they never asked for a ticket, so I walked right in. No one told us what was going on, untill I spotted Frank Oz over in the corner. I thought there was going to be an organized line or something like a normal signing. Couldn't get to Frank in time, but was told that there was more people up stairs and that is where the photographs where going to take place. So, after more confusion, I found out you needed to fill out a card to get a free picture taken with people... Sadly, only Carole Spinney and Bob McGrath where there, but at an event where I don't think I was supposed to be, I'll take what I can get
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I did get the guts to tell Carole that my favorite song as a kid was 'I love Trash', and that got a verse of it from him
. Running on adrenaline, and hopefully not looking too weird while doing it, I stumbled on my way down stairs, to see if I could find Kevin Clash...and did. He was talking to one or two people over by t he orderves. I waited patiently, and dove right in, again on adreneline. I told him how much I admired his work as Splinter on the first two turtle movies, and wondered why they didn't come back for a third. He didn't know, but he said he loved doing them and would have loved to do another one. As other folks mentioned, probably budget reasons. Anyway, I asked if he could record a drop for PLJ, after trying to expalin the IronMan Elmo Triathalon without sounding like a total idiot...and unfortunatley, he and Frank had to leave ASAP, so he politely declined....
So, that being said, I rushed back up stairs to see if I could talk to Frank real quick, who really was making plans to leave, if he could get away from the folks waiting to talk to him in a polite way.. A person before me got him to sign a yoda picture...the lady was a huge star wars fan
. I brought out a picture to show him that I saved from Star Wars Insider, that I thought he might get a kick out of.. Depsite having so many memories, he actually did remember that moment, and it got a laugh out of him. It was a picture of him and Jim Henson inspecting a prototype Yoda mask. I did get to ask him really quickly what it was like working with Geroge Lucas, but he gave a short answer as he was really trying to get out of there....
All in all a fun, and possibly VERY lucky night....
did you go to the Manor, Amicita?
