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Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood

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Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood is a verbatim staging of a full half-hour episode of the eponymous television show (#1718: "Be Yourself, That's the Best"). The episode features Rogers’ visit to a string quartet and a trip to the neighborhood of make-believe.

The original television series, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, was and remains a near-universally-beloved American children's program, featuring a radically genuine host whose oddly postmodern refusal to engage in televisual spectacle (virtual absence of filmic cuts, direct address to an audience to whom he refers as "television neighbors", a relatively slow pace and conversational tone, subject matter of emotions and childhood fears, the use of simple puppets, etc.) stands in stark contrast to contemporary modes of discourse both on- and off-camera. As such, capturing Rogers' honesty and affect without veering into parody on one side, or nostalgia on the other, is a challenge: The performance, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, seeks to adhere to the original text, tone, and pacing, to re-approach Rogers' response to televisual culture as an embodied presence today.

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Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood featured Eric Mayson on piano, with Eric Larson, Rachel Petrie, and HATLO as Miss Paulificate; guests Lux String Quartet.

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