Barney's Musical Castle

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Barney's Musical Castle
Directed byJim Rowley
Written byEvan Viola
Produced byJeff Gittle
StarringBob West
Carey Stinson
Antwaun Steele
Julie Johnson
Jennifer Gibel
Jill Nelson
Patty Wirtz
Kyle Nelson
Charles Shaw
Talia Davis
Westly Farnsworth
Hayley Greenbauer
Fernando Moguel
Cecil Fulfer
Derrick Graves
Jay Benson
Dewayne Hambrick
Camille Pritchett
David Voss
Music byJoe Phillips
Production
company
Lyons Partnership L.P.
Distributed by Lyrick Studios
Release date
  • March 6, 2001 (2001-03-06)
Running time
65 minutes
LanguageEnglish

Barney's Musical Castle, also called Barney's Musical Castle LIVE and El Castillo Musical de Barney (Spanish), was Barney's fourth concert and his second US tour. The tour began on September 8, 1999, and the video was released in 2001. In this stage show tour, Barney, Baby Bop, BJ and kids go to the forest to visit the king. The home video was taped at the Rosemont Theater.

Contents

Cast

Songs

Act One

  1. Barney Is A Dinosaur (tune: Yankee Doodle)
  2. Musical Castle Sing-Along Medley (Everyone is Special, If All the Raindrops and Mr. Knickerbocker)
  3. Castles So High
  4. What Makes A Flower So Pretty?
  5. Look At Me, I'm Three!
  6. You Can Count On Me
  7. Here In The Forest
  8. And The Green Grass Grows All Around
  9. It's A Great Day
  10. If You're Happy and You Know It

Act Two

  1. Castles So High (reprise)
  2. Wave The Flags
  3. Musical Castle Nursery Rhymes Sing-Along (Little Bo-Peep, Hickory Dickory Dock, Pat-a-cake, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Jack and Jill, This Little Piggy (Rap vision))
  4. Knight's Dance
  5. Musical Castle Costume Parade (Noble Duke of York, A Silly Hat, and Boom Boom, Ain't it Great to Be Crazy)
  6. I Put A Smile On
  7. I'm The King
  8. Musical Castle Celebration Medley (Tah-Rah-Rah-Boom-De-Ay, When I'm Old Enough to Join the Band, Wave the Flags(reprise))
  9. It's A Great Day (reprise)
  10. I Love You (tune: This Old Man)

Production

Writing

The show's original vision was from writer Stephen White. The show was turned over to multiple writers in order to put the script together. [3]

Announcements

In November 1998, Mary Ann Dudko made her appearance in Crook & Chase to talk about Barney and his 10th anniversary, but it mentioned when Mary talks about a big news about Barney's new stage show and about to touring in major cities in Fall 1999 to Spring 2001.

Release

The show made its world premiere on September 15, 1999 at the Reunion Arena in Dallas, Texas. [4] The show toured in North America until 2001 and was nationally sponsored by Luvs. [5] The show was announced to play in eighty cities over the course of the original run. During the show's original run, it drew more than nine hundred ten thousand attendees to two hundred forty-three performances and saw $17.5 million in ticket grosses. [5] Following North America, the show toured in Mexico in 2000 in its initial run, it was later performed in Asia in 2005 and 2012, Mexico, Central America and Latin America from 2006 to 2007, and the Middle East from 2009 to 2010. A portion of the proceeds from the tour benefited the National Children’s Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating child abuse. [6]

See also

References

  1. St. Louis native helps Barney improve his dance moves
  2. Churnin, Nancy (January 7, 2011). "Purple reign: Barney and friends celebrate his birthday with a kids' rock concert". The Dallas Morning News . Archived from the original on April 16, 2021. Retrieved January 31, 2022.
  3. Stephen White (June 22, 2020). "Stephen White - Barney & Friends Writer". YouTube . Retrieved September 1, 2025.
  4. "Barney Online" . Retrieved September 1, 2025.
  5. 1 2 Haman, Andrea (February 1, 2001). "New kids theatrical players take the stage". Kidscreen . Retrieved September 1, 2025.
  6. Bishop, Robert (April 26, 2001). "Purple Reign". The Pitch. Retrieved September 1, 2025.