“The Pee-wee Herman Show” big comeback next month

“The Pee-wee Herman Show” will open next month in Los Angeles at Club Nokia theater.

Paul Reubens said in an interview:  ”Well, you know, I really want to make a movie version of ‘The Playhouse,’ my Saturday morning kid show. This seemed like a great way to do it: Reintroduce it, get back out there, introduce Pee-wee to the new generation that didn’t know about it”.

Pee Wee Herman

“The Pee-wee Herman Show” debuted at Groundlings theater in Los Angeles in 1981. The Pee-wee gospel across the country later that year and a 1985 Tim Burton-directed feature film, “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure”  was an acclaimed and popular success.

In July 1991 Pee-wee was shelved after Reubens arrest for indecent exposure in an adult-movie house in Sarasota. Reubens continued to act, playing characters other than Pee-wee, having a great success as the Penguin’s father in “Batman Returns”.

Reubens said “Well, I went back and forth between wanting to do it and not wanting to do. I had a producer that was calling me every two months for two years. And every two months, I would change my mind. And then, finally, one day I woke up and decided, ‘This is it, I’m coming back.”

“I think I am grateful for my friends. I am grateful for my fans. I am grateful that people still support me. I am grateful that people are going to buy tickets to come see my fabulous, fantastic, unbelievably incredible show at Club Nokia. … I hope people have tickets and that is pretty much what I am thankful for”, Reubens declared to the press.