Big Bird & Company Musical Review

Big Bird & Company was a stage show that opened in 1989 at the Big Bird Theater (today called the Monster Rock Theater.)

Image from YouTube

The 18 minute show featured Big Bird dancing the robot to Axel F and characters doing the moonwalk.

The show featured both Honkers, Ernie & Bert, Prairie Dawn, Cookie Monster, Grover and of course Big Bird.

The opening of the show went like this:

Big Bird: Hi everybody, my name is Big Bird. What's your name? 

(Every child in the audience shouts their name out) 

Big Bird: Well, nice to meet you Jim, Pat, Dave, Jan, Howie, Reuben, Jeanie, Frank, Debbie, Tommy, Michael, Lisa, Betsy, Warren, Clyde, Harold, Willie, Carol, Paul.  

(Axel F starts playing and Big Bird begins to do a robot dance with the Honkers.) 

Big Bird (sound robotic): Doug, Frank, Debbie, Jim, Pat, Dave, Howie, Rueben, Dee, Burl, Bret, Joel, Sherry, Jesus, Betsy, Warren, Clyde, Carol, Willie...

Image from Flickr

Muppet Wiki lists 1992 as the closing date, but a 1993 article about the park mentions the show.

Today the theater hosts the Elmo Rocks show.

The Grover Clock

The Grover Clock was an icon from the early days of the park.

 Image from YouTube

The tall clock was had a Grover face in the center and a Grover faced pendulum that hung below. As the pendulum would swing from side to side his eves would follow.

  Image from YouTube

 Today the clock image has been replaced with an image of Big Bird and still stands in front of the Monster Rock Theater.

 Image from Google Street Views

There is no pendulum anymore and no sign of the "eye holes" anymore.

 Image from YouTube and Flickr

I can only assume this is an item that broke and it wasn't deemed worthy of repairing. It's a shame. It's one of the few updates to the park that feels like a downgrade. 

Little touches like this really make a park vibrant and lively.