Pee-wee is back, boys and girls

November 14, 2010 at 4:49AM
Paul Reubends as Pee-wee in the "Pee-wee Herman Show" at the Sondheim Theater in New York, Nov. 9, 2010. The show, created and conceived by Reubens, and directed by Alex Timbers, opened Thursday night for a limited run through Jan. 2.
Paul Reubends as Pee-wee in the "Pee-wee Herman Show" at the Sondheim Theater in New York, Nov. 9, 2010. The show, created and conceived by Reubens, and directed by Alex Timbers, opened Thursday night for a limited run through Jan. 2. (Atom - Associated Press - Nyt/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The sounds filling the Stephen Sondheim Theater are not the melodies you might expect to hear in a house recently renamed for the revered master of the American musical. They are, instead, the happy sounds and raucous cheers of a thousand reborn inner children romping around a favorite playground.Pee-wee Herman is back, boys and girls! The man-child in the skinny suit and red bow tie, the helium-voiced idol of the snark generation has been sprung from a time machine and has parked his playhouse on Broadway for a spell, bringing his fanciful menagerie of talking furniture and friendly sidekicks along for the ride.

"The Pee-wee Herman Show," which opened Thursday night for a limited run through Jan. 2, is a bubble bath of nostalgia for the many adoring fans of Pee-wee, the sweet 'n' snickery alter ego of comic Paul Reubens. Created and conceived by Reubens, the show resembles an extended episode of "Pee-wee's Playhouse," his children's TV show that had its debut in 1986 and ran for five seasons on CBS.

Reconstituted more than two decades later, the original recipe is essentially unaltered.

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