Sleeping Gypsy Lullaby

"Sleeping Gypsy Lullaby" is a Sesame Street song conceived of by Tony Geiss for a segment in the Season 28 series of inserts taking place at the Museum of Modern Art.
At the museum, Big Bird and Chicago the Lion happen upon Henri Rousseau's The Sleeping Gypsy. Big Bird interprets the painting as the lion sniffing the person before gobbling them up. Chicago, a gentle soul, instead believes that the human plans to serenade the lion with a lullaby. He proceeds to sing it for Big Bird, who falls asleep standing up in the middle of the gallery.
The segment would get reworked before recording on location. With the song and curricular topic of "Consequent Events" dropped, the piece was rewritten to instead feature Baby Bear (another David Rudman character) alongside Big Bird. The theme was now "Sound Identification," as the pair imagine sounds emanating from the painting.
==Sources==
*Tony Geiss Papers at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
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Category:Unfinished Sesame Street Songs