Vila Sésamo
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Vila Sesamo is the Brazilian co-production of Sesame Street, which ran from 1972 until 1977 on TV Globo. At the time, there was no color television in Brazil, so the show was broadcast in black and white.
The puppet characters in the series, created within Brazil, included the following: Garibaldo, a seven-foot tall blue bird equivalent to Big Bird; Gugu, a hairy green, yellow(plus other colors) Grouch; Funga Funga, a giant, red elephant; and Zé Das Latas, the street's resident robot. Three more characters were added during the show's final season. All of the puppets were created by local Brazilian designers, with no known involvement from the Muppet Workshop.
The series was successful, but was canceled due to overwhelming financial costs.
On October 29, 2007, TV Cultura launched a new Vila Sésamo. Rather than a full co-production, the series featured new host segments featuring Garibaldo (now a duplicate Big Bird puppet) and a new Muppet girl named Bel. The package consists of Portuguese-dubbed episodes of Elmo's World, Play With Me Sesame, and Global Grover, plus selections from the US Sesame Street and Sesame English. Seventy-eight new Brazilian live-action and animated inserts fill out the block.
The TV special 40 Years TV Cultura, which preceded the new series, featured a refurbished version of the original Garibaldo introducing the new bird. In 2008, the package began airing on TV Ra-Tim-Bum.
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Cast
- Laerte Morrone as Garibaldo
- Roberto Orozco as Gugu
- Marcos Miranda as Funga Funga
- Wilson Evangelina Costa as Zé Das Latas
- Aracy Balabanian as Gabriela
- Armando Bogus as Juca
- Sonia Braga as Ana Maria
- Milton Goncalves as Professor Leao
- Manuel Inocencio as Seu Almeida
- Ayres Pinto as Cuca
- Luiz Antonio Angelucci as Bruno
- Elany Del Vechio as Jujuba
- Teresa Cristina as Pipoca
Character Translations
- Grover
- Elmo
- Ênio e Beto (Ernie and Bert)
- Sofia Sabida (Prairie Dawn)
- Come-Come (Cookie Monster)
Merchandise
- Vila Sésamo Magazines
- Vila Sésamo finger puppets
- Vila Sésamo furniture (Multibrink)
- Vila Sésamo playhouse (Multibrink)
External links
- Sesame Workshop - Brazil
- InfanTv- Original series profile in Portuguese
- Vila Sésamo Estréia na TV Cultura
