[I/OOC] Incidental Bits

[Bob Schroeck]

I wouldn't call where Sesame Street seems to be a suburb. It's very much a part of Manhattan proper, although exactly where is a little hard to say -- the building styles wouldn't be out of place in Soho/Greenwich Village, but might also be found in parts of midtown or above Central Park.

And if Sesame Street is arriving, then I strongly suggest we have the Hundred Acre Wood show up in or near its real-world counterpart, the Five Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, England.

EDIT: While there is now an actual Sesame Street in NYC, the neighborhood doesn't actually match the set all that closely. According to Wikipedia:

The fictional Sesame Street is set to represent a neighborhood of New York City. The specific neighborhood that it is supposed to represent is disagreed upon. Art director Victor DiNapoli has stated that it is supposed to be located on the Upper West Side. Sesame Street's co-creator, Joan Ganz Cooney, stated in 1994 that she originally wanted to call the show 123 Avenue B, after the Alphabet City area of the Lower East Side and East Village.

Neither is close to the theatre district (roughly a block or so on either side of Broadway between 30nd and 60th streets), which is where the Muppet Theater would probably be. Unless you want to make it an Off-Broadway theater, in which case it can be practically anywhere in the city -- Little Shop of Horrors and The Fantasticks were/are both in theaters in the Village, for instance.

EDIT 2: Given the usual audience demographics for the Muppet Show, will a supporting nonhuman population come along with the theater?