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Back in January of this year, Pee-Wee Herman (née Paul Reubens) triumphantly opened his stage production The Pee-Wee Herman Show here in Los Angeles, CA. A few weeks later, David and I saw and LOVED the show. Last night, Pee-Wee officially opened the show on Broadway at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre … here are a few photos from the red carpet arrivals:

I just KNEW that the live incarnation of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse would be destined for Broadway. The show was such a huge success here in LA that I was sure it would be a big hit on Broadway as well. The show is a deffo must see for Pee-Wee fans and for fans of his Saturday morning show Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. I don’t know how long the show is scheduled to run but if you can see it, see it … it’s really fun and it will bring back a lot of great memories (hopefully, it will not bring back memories of Reubens‘s embarrassing arrest in the mid-90′s). It’s one of those shows that you only need to see once … but deffo see it at least once, ya hear?

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Last night David and I made our way out to Club Nokia in LA Live in downtown Los Angeles, CA to see The Pee Wee Herman Show live on stage. David got us tickets a few months ago and it turns out he got us front row center seats!!

The last two photos are not mine, I found them on Twitter because from our vantage point, we could not sneak cameraphone pics at all. The show is basically a live action version of the famed Pee Wee’s Playhouse TV show with all of the characters we know and love from the show. We had a blast!! To be honest, tho, this show is really for fans of the TV show. The fun came from remembering how much you loved the show as a kid … the humor, by today’s standards, is very tame. It’s deffo a must see if you are a Pee Wee Herman fan. The theater was full of adults, clearly the target audience ;)

Oh and the secret word of the day was: Fun!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

We had a blast.

Tonight, David and I will be call in guests on KNEWS FM 94.3 here in SoCal (you can listen online HERE) at 9PM PT and you can call in with questions as well (1-888-589-6397). Our friend and author Christopher Rice is hosting the show and we’re gonna help him talk about pop culture stuff. Should be fun :)

UPDATE: Anne Rice just announced that she will also be a guest on Christoper‘s show at 7PM PT on KNEWS 94.3 tonight!! Now you have to tune in!!

The day that Pee-Wee Herman fans have been dreaming about has finally come … Paul Reubens has brought back to life his famous character Pee-Wee Herman in a new live action stage show at the Nokia Theater based roughly on his long-running TV series Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. The show has been in previews for about a week now but last night was the big premiere. Here are a few photos of Pee-Wee and some of his character friends as they made their arrivals last night on the red carpet:

The Pee-wee Herman Show officially [opened] at Club Nokia @ L.A. LIVE Jan. 20. Directed by Alex Timbers, the production, which began previews Jan. 12, will continue through Feb. 7. In addition to Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman, the cast also features Lynne Marie Stewart as Miss Yvonne; Phil LaMarr as Cowboy Curtis; Jesse Garcia as Sergio, a new character; Josh Meyers as Firefighter; John Moody as Mailman Mike; John Paragon as Jambi; Drew Powell as Bear; Lance Roberts as King of Cartoons; and Lori Alan and Maceo Oliver as voices. Pee-wee’s talking chair Chairry, Pterri the pterodactyl, Conky the robot, Magic Screen and Randy, are also on stage at Club Nokia. “Pee-wee dreams that one day he can fly,” according to press notes. “The play follows Pee-wee’s quest to see this lifelong wish fulfilled. Pee-wee is torn when he has to choose to have his wish granted or better the lives of his friends. Along the way he embarks on hilarious adventures filled with his playhouse friends and some new ones. Throw in some funny pop culture references, and of course, your favorite Pee-wee-isms.” The production features scenic design by David Korins with original music by Jay Cotton. Tickets are available by calling (800) 745-3000 or by visiting ticketmaster.com. Club Nokia @ L.A. LIVE is located at 800 West Olympic Blvd. in Los Angeles.

This show was originally meant to open last October at the much smaller Henry Fonda Theater but due to popular demand, it got moved to the larger Nokia Theater and was upgraded to the nth degree. A who’s who of celebs braved the rain last night to attend this red carpet premiere event. After the jump, find out who showed up …

Paul Reubens, better known to the world as Pee Wee Herman, is starting to ride a wave of popularity these days now that he has decided to revive his Pee Wee character after many years on hiatus. As some of you may recall, Reubens was arrested in in the early 90′s when he was found to be “pleasuring himself” in an adult video theater. The arrest ruined his career and sent him underground ever since (tho, Reubens has popped up on occasion in various projects … not the least of which was the original movie version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Here is our first look at Reubens as Pee Wee Herman in the new issue of Details magazine … are y’all ready for the comeback?

Paul Reubens is doing one of the things he does best: obsessing. “I am constantly hoping that, like, I’m still relevant at all,” he says in a voice—higher than most men’s, slightly nasal—that’s still familiar, even after all these years. Wandering around the Hollywood Museum, just a few blocks from his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, he has lingered over the red-and-white vintage bicycle that he rode in his 1985 movie Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. He has appraised the display containing the skinny gray suit (with red bow tie) that was his uniform on his Saturday-morning TV show, Pee-wee’s Playhouse, which aired on CBS from 1986 to 1991. But it’s not the Pee-wee Herman memorabilia, which sits near W.C. Fields’ top hat and Brendan Fraser’s George of the Jungle loincloth, that sets off Reubens OCD. Instead, the trigger is Bob Hope’s honorary Oscar. “When I was a kid, I’d always watch Bob Hope and go, like, ‘I know he must’ve been funny, but is he past his prime?’” Reubens says. “What I’m trying to prove now is that I still have it, I’m still around—I still am Pee-wee Herman, and Pee-wee Herman is still funny. So I’m feeling very Bob Hope—hoping I don’t see a parallel.” Yes, that’s right: The 57-year-old actor, best known for embodying the oddball man-child with the puppet friends (and also for two tawdry scrapes with the law), is about to don the skinny suit again to perform as Pee-wee for the first time in 19 years. Starting in early January in Los Angeles, Reubens will star in an elaborate live show in which Pee-wee yearns to fly, gets his wish, and then gives it away. For anyone who likes allegories, as Reubens does, this one is a doozy … In July 1991 Reubens was arrested for indecent exposure in an adult theater in Sarasota, Florida. He pleaded no contest while maintaining his innocence, but the resulting media feeding frenzy derailed all things Pee-wee. With his alter ego sidelined, Reubens spent several years out of the public eye, writing and collecting—obsessively. He fervently hoards everything from sunglasses to foot-measuring devices, fake food to yearbooks (he has amassed 8,000 of them). He played the occasional bit part before finally landing a career-resurrecting role: as a hairdresser turned drug dealer in Ted Demme’s 2001 drama Blow. Then, just when things were looking up, police raided Reubens’ house and, in 2002, arrested him for having what authorities called a collection of child pornography. In fact, the offending “collection” comprised a VHS tape of Rob Lowe’s sex romp and turn-of-the-century erotica images featuring men and women—but no children. Friends vouched for Reubens, saying he was an insatiable collector who often bought in bulk, books and magazines in particular, and that there was no way he could know everything he’d amassed. It didn’t matter. Even though his child-porn charges were ultimately reduced, 16 months later, to a misdemeanor possession-of-obscenity rap, the damage was done. To most people, Pee-wee was a kiddie-porn-purveying perv. “All this stuff that happened—the quote-unquote treatment I received—was not an inducement to come back to work,” Reubens says now. He looks good—clean-shaven and pale, with a closely shorn Pee-wee ‘do, trim blue jeans, a black-and-green retro short-sleeved button-down, and black Cole Haans. “To wait for somebody to give me permission to have a career wasn’t going to happen, you know?” … “I don’t want anyone for one second to think that I am titillated by images of children,” Reubens said on Dateline NBC. “The public may think I’m weird. They may think I’m crazy. . . . That’s all fine. As long as one of the things you’re not thinking about me is that I’m a pedophile. Because that’s not true.” But Reubens’ fondness for Pee-wee never went away. “I always loved being that character,” he tells me, his eyes tearing up as he recounts his previous evening’s activity: introducing the annual outdoor screening of Pee-wee’s Big Adventure at the Hollywood Forever cemetery. ‘There were 3,000 people there,’ he says. “I could feel the love.” Pee-wee never seems to have been far from his mind … The new stage show—which will have about a dozen cast members, including puppeteers (and will feature familiar memes like “today’s secret word”)—will be true to that spirit. Out of respect for his slain friend Phil Hartman, who played Captain Carl, that character has been retired; Cowboy Curtis, the part Fishburne played, will get a larger role in his place. Reubens has also struck a first-of-its-kind pact with Ticketmaster to reach out to diverse audiences. When e-mail alerts appeared to be sent to mostly white consumers, one of the show’s producers complained to the booking company; the employee he reached revealed she was African-American and that she had grown up watching Pee-wee. “She said, ‘It was not lost on me that the King of Cartoons was a black man, and that had a big meaning for me.’ It doesn’t cost anything to be nice to somebody versus being ugly,” Reubens says, turning introspective. “This is where Pee-wee and me may not be relevant anymore, seriously.” I posit that kindness, pluralism, and fun with tape might be just the balm for what ails us today. Pee-wee won’t be our savior, Reubens says. “I can’t be that, because that doesn’t work for comedy.” But isn’t the resuscitation of this eighties-era Peter Pan itself a quixotic rescue mission? The question prompts a duh-Dottie-don’t-you-know rejoinder that sounds more like Pee-wee than Paul Reubens: “You can’t save the world.”

This article fails to mention that Reubens booked and sold tickets for a string of shows to take place here in LA in November at The Henry Fonda Theater (David and I had tickets) but he canceled all those shows and postponed his performances until January. It’s unclear if Reubens just wasn’t ready to the perform live or if the fast sale of all available tickets at the smaller theater inspired him to move the shows to a bigger venue (and therefore more money) but there is interest to see him perform live again. David and I haven’t decided if we’re going to try and buy tickets for the new shows just yet … we were intrigued when it was just a tiny show for fans. I fear it’s now become a bigger spectacle for money and I’m not sure I’m all that interested any more.

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