Happy news for fans of Pee-Wee Herman!! The Pee-Wee Herman Show, which is currently on Broadway after a very successful run here in LA at the start of the year, is coming back to TV. HBO announced today that they will film one of the Broadway performances of the show for broadcast on their network [...]
Happy news for fans of Pee-Wee Herman!! The Pee-Wee Herman Show, which is currently on Broadway after a very successful run here in LA at the start of the year, is coming back to TV. HBO announced today that they will film one of the Broadway performances of the show for broadcast on their network sometime next year.
On Tuesday HBO said it would shoot the current Broadway production of “The Pee-wee Herman Show,” which stars Paul Reubens as that impish man-child of its title, for a special to be shown next year. Pee-wee historians – and you know who you are – may recall that HBO previously broadcast a “Pee-wee Herman Show” special back in 1981, taped at the Roxy Theater in Los Angeles. That show, which Mr. Reubens and his colleagues at the Groundlings comedy theater began performing in 1980, would go on to form the basis of the “Pee-wee Herman Show” currently being presented at the Stephen Sondheim Theater on Broadway. HBO said it would tape its new “Pee-wee” special immediately after the show’s Broadway run ends on Jan. 2; a broadcast date wasn’t announced.
So crazy … The Pee-Wee Herman Show started as stage performance that was broadcast on HBO then got turned into a TV series for kids (Pee-Wee’s Playhouse) which then got turned back into a stage show that will be, once again, broadcast on HBO. If the course trajectory holds, Pee-Wee Herman might get another kids’ show sometime soon. David and I were very lucky to get to see this new live version of The Pee-Wee Herman Show when it opened here in LA last January … and we had a blast! I’m sure the folks in NYC are enjoying it as well. Now, all the other folks who weren’t able to see the show live will at least get to see it on HBO next year. This is great news, yeah? Pee-Wee fans gotta be geeked about this news.
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