Cinder Elmo: Elmo's World A Day On The Set Beach.

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00:00Shhh, come on in!

00:04Come on, come on!

00:06Oh boy, this is where we're doing Cinderella!

00:10Yeah, come on!

00:16Very nice!

00:24And cut!

00:26Oh, welcome to the set of Cinder Elmo!

00:32Where Elmo and his friends at Sesame Street are performing in the great musical fairy tale,

00:38Cinder Elmo!

00:40Which is like the fairy tale Cinderella!

00:42See, Elmo gets to wear costumes and make up and pretend!

00:46Oh, Elmo has to go back now!

00:48Watch, watch, watch!

00:50Hey, Cinder!

00:54Well, you know, it's kind of a whole new experience for all my Sesame Street pals to do a show of their own.

00:59You know, it's amazing to work on a TV show, you know?

01:02Yeah, there's a lot of people running around and, you know, there's always something happening, you know?

01:07There's always lights are being moved and there's microphones.

01:12Yeah, look at that!

01:13I didn't know it took this many people to put on a play for television.

01:17Well, there's Hank.

01:18Hi, Hank!

01:19Oh, there's, that's Hank.

01:20He's the stage manager.

01:21Oh, hi.

01:22Say hello to the people.

01:23What are we on next, Hank?

01:24Um, in 30 seconds.

01:26Ooh!

01:29See, over there, there's the director.

01:32And he tells me when I have to talk and say my lines.

01:37And, and right now what they're doing is they're rehearsing, and that means they're practicing their lines and everything.

01:45Polish my shoes!

01:47Cinder Elmo, dust the cheese!

01:50Cinder Elmo, don't go there, you little...

01:54Oh, it's very hard to learn your lines.

01:56Sure.

01:57Yeah, sure.

01:58You're learning the words to a song, right?

01:59Mm-hmm.

02:00They feed me basically a syllable at a time.

02:02I can, I can retain that much.

02:04You know, it takes a little, little, little bit of practice.

02:06Yep.

02:07But we get the hang of it after a while.

02:08Yep, yep.

02:09We're actually in the palace ballroom, where we, um, Elmo and I have some very,

02:14romantic duets.

02:16Dance duets.

02:17Three common sticks.

02:19Action!

02:21My knight in shining armor.

02:24At your service, princess.

02:26I've been expecting you.

02:27Shall we dance?

02:28Yeah!

02:29So first, how was that?

02:31Did Elmo say the lines right?

02:33No, it's, uh, at your service, princess.

02:36Are you sure?

02:37Yeah.

02:38It's not at your service, princess.

02:39Yeah.

02:40It's at your service, princess.

02:41Yeah.

02:42It's at your service, princess.

02:43You know, I think that you need to be a little bit more, uh, pleading.

02:46What?

02:47A little bit more desperate.

02:48You know?

02:49Testament?

02:50Yeah.

02:51What's that word?

02:52Desperate.

02:53Oh, desperate.

02:54Yeah.

02:55Oh, Elmo can play desperate.

02:56Okay, Elmo go back and try it again.

02:57It's a dream come true, dancing with you at the palace.

03:02I think Elmo's great.

03:04And, uh, Elmo's definitely the sweet and most childlike of all of them.

03:10You know, the kid's got talent.

03:11That's all I can say.

03:12Especially for a three-year-old.

03:13I don't think I've ever met any three-year-olds who have the kind of natural stage presence

03:18and kind of relaxation.

03:20Elmo's a giver.

03:22And I will, uh, I'll just say that up front.

03:24Elmo gives and gives and gives and it's all about his craft.

03:27Sometimes you walk up and it's like, hey, Elmo, how's it going?

03:30You want to go, shh.

03:31You know, I'm thinking.

03:33That type of thing.

03:34You know, he's sitting there and he's getting into character and then afterwards you can't

03:37talk to him because he's trying to shake it off.

03:39So, uh, yeah, I, uh, you know, I, I hope to have the chance to work with Elmo again,

03:44you know, in Shakespeare in the Park, whatever.

03:46It's always intimidating on some level working with a huge international superstar like Elmo,

03:51but he's, he's what we call in the business a very generous performer.

03:56Stop it, please.

03:57As far as I, I'm concerned, it's Pacino, Brando, maybe Meryl Streep, Elmo.

04:06I love working with actors.

04:08Mm-hmm.

04:09Yep, yep.

04:10Yeah, me too.

04:11It's, um, you know, it's, uh, it's, it's fine.

04:13It's, um, it's different.

04:15It's, um, unusual.

04:16It's, uh, you know.

04:17Some of them are very tall.

04:18They're very tall.

04:19And they blink a lot.

04:20Mm-hmm.

04:21You see, when Baby Bear and I act, we never blink.

04:23No, no.

04:24Never once.

04:25It's very important to not blink.

04:26Make eye contact.

04:27It's a very important acting skill.

04:28Yeah, we're really good at staring contests.

04:30That's right.

04:31Ready?

04:32Go.

04:33Yeah.

04:34See there?

04:35Ernie knows where I'm coming from, and I know where he's coming from.

04:38He's really shaped up, and, uh, I think you're gonna see some of his best work in this film.

04:42Oh, oh, Princess, I can't offer you diamonds and rubies, but if you marry me, you can have

04:48Rubber Ducky.

04:49Oh.

04:51I would never give away Rubber Ducky.

04:54No.

04:55I mean, I, I do offer Rubber Ducky to the Princess if she chooses to marry me, but, you

04:59know, it's only a play.

05:00I would never actually give away Rubber Ducky.

05:02In real life, there's no way you'd do that.

05:04That's right.

05:05That's right.

05:06And this way, Rubber Ducky gets to be in the show.

05:07Mm-hmm.

05:08It's a joy.

05:09It's a little bit of a, of a different rhythm that the Muppets work in.

05:13Ugh.

05:14Tough day at work.

05:15Time to kick back.

05:16Yeah, baby.

05:17Whoa!

05:18And I told my momma on the day I was born, I said, don't juice it on my head.

05:25Yeah!

05:26Uh, where's the porridge?

05:28I, I, I had it in my contract that there would be porridge out here in the craft services.

05:33A little porridge, please?

05:35Maybe some porridge parmesan?

05:37Keep it down over there.

05:40Jeez.

05:41Elmo, we need you out of wardrobe on set in three minutes.

05:44Oh, you, you're putting something?

05:46Oh, there you go.

05:47Oh, see, this is Elmo when he's dirty.

05:50Elmo loves this part.

05:51Yeah, this is before the very odd person comes and changes Elmo into his ball outfit,

05:57which is very pretty.

05:58It's so great to wear costumes, isn't it, Baby Bear?

06:08Yeah, it's, you know, it's, it's not easy for a bear to wear a costume.

06:11You know, generally I'm naked.

06:13I, I myself have a beautiful costume and, uh, and a lot of work has gone into these costumes.

06:18You'll see, see a lot of very, uh, very expensive imported fabrics all the way from New Jersey.

06:23Really nice stuff.

06:24See, now, isn't this great?

06:25And this doubles like if you're hungry for breakfast, it's a Danish.

06:28This is so exciting!

06:30I just love it.

06:32I could sit here, do nothing, and be excited wearing this.

06:36Aren't we supposed to have cheers with our names on it?

06:39Oh, I didn't get that in my contract.

06:42You got a contract?

06:43I actually was honored to work with the Muppets.

06:45I mean, these guys are legendary.

06:47They've been around forever, and I grew up with them, as did everyone.

06:51So, to have the opportunity to work with, you know, all of them.

06:55Bert, Ernie, Cookie, Count, Big Bird, you know, Elmo, of course.

06:59Was, it's just fabulous.

07:04That's a wrap, everybody.

07:05Thank you very much.

07:06Nice job.

07:25Thank you very much.

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