Brady Shakespeare

"***Brady Shakespeare: World of Words & Poetry***" is the 4th episode to be released in the Brady Einstein TV series, 4th episode overall of [ Season 1] and and the final episode of the The Platinum (Or Diamond) Age. Almost all of it's music is by Ludwig Van Beethoven (except the main theme of the video and the alphabet song) and the visual content consists of nature, toys and puppet shows featuring Katie Mitchell and other classic B.E. puppets. It was released in theaters on June 18, 1999 with the movie this short accompanied, "*Tarzan*" despite the original tape saying 2000 and was later reissued that year. The counterpart CD is the Baby Beethoven 1999 CD. It was also sold in a 'special' pack including the VHS and the book. It was later re-released sometime in 2004 / 2014, with some alterations. It is released to universal panning and became Disney’s biggest box office disaster.

## Video Guide

### Opening

* Disney Fanfare, Debney: Walt Disney Pictures Logo (1990-2006) (replaced by the Pixar version of the Walt Disney Pictures Logo in 2004, the first current version of the Walt Disney Pictures Logo (2006-2011) in 2009, and another current Walt Disney Pictures Logo (2011-) in 2014 as well as the current fanfare composed by Mark Mancina)
* Theme from Symphony No. 9, 2nd Movement: The Tale of Custard the Dragon - Ogden Nash: Katie Mitchell's Introduction
* Baby Shakespeare Theme, Weisbach: Opening Titles (different version in 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2020)
* Bubbles
* The Alphabet Song - Pull Along ABC Block Cart (replaced by Wooden Block Cart with Bag O' Blocks and Big Blocks in 2004); The Baby Shakespeare Kids with Sunny Bunny, Bluebird, and Cud Cow:

* Applause

### Train

* Focus Pocus clicks to the word train
* Katie Orosco rides across the screen on the Sesame Street Express Train Ride-On (replaced by Casey Toy Train Engine, People Car, Smiley Face Gondola and Circus Caboose in 2004) The word "train" follows.
* A Modern Dragon - Rowena Bastin Bennett (Locomotive type: Truck Shay No. 14 from Georgetown Loop Railroad, Colorado)
* Rondo a Capriccio in G Major, Rage Over a Lost Penny, Op. 129: Pull Along Soft Cars, Playful Insects in 4 different angles (replaced by Gears! Gears! Gears! Dizzy Fun Land in 4 different angles in 2004), Pull Along Soft Cars, Gearation zoomed in with 3 different angles, Polaris Kinetic, Playful Insects in 2 different angles (replaced by Gears! Gears! Gears! Dizzy Fun Land in 3 different angles in 2004), Pull Along Soft Cars

### Flower

* Focus Pocus clicks to the word flower
* Katie Orosco sniffs and sneezes the word "flower" because of Sunny the Singing Sunflower (replaced by 50 Centimeter Sunflower in 2004)
* A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
* Bluebird attempts to rise a Bendy Flower, fails twice, and gets it up the third time.
* Ball Party: Round About Tower
* Applause

### Apple

* Focus Pocus clicks to the word apple
* Katie Orosco paints the word "apple" in Magnetic Letters. Then, and apple is painted on the easel, which may imply what Bard truly painted.
* The Apple Tree - Galway Kinnell
* Two Rondos Op. 51, No. 1 in C Major: Taggly, Butterfly Knob Puzzle, Taggly, Teaching Tower (replaced by IQ Baby Busy Box in 2004), Taggly
* Applause

### Cat

* Focus Pocus clicks to the word cat
* The Cat and the Moon - W. B. Yates
* Threading Apple

### Grass

* Focus Pocus clicks to the word grass
* Stripes the Tiger pops up and hops through the grass. He makes a big leap off screen and leaps back. He then walks away and a lawnmower is heard. The "lawnmower" appears to be the word "grass"
* Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor, Für Elise, WoO 59: Heavenly Grass - Tennessee Williams
* Stripes practices his roar, but is scared away by Quackamus Duck.
* Applause

### Frog

* Focus Pocus clicks to the word frog
* Katie Mitchell hops to the Frog-in-the-Box, dumps the frog into the water then laughs. She then goes away.
* Wadasa Nakamoon - Ray A. Young Bear
* The Alphabet Song - Pull Along ABC Block Cart (replaced by Wooden Block Cart with Bag O' Blocks and Big Blocks in 2004); The Baby Shakespeare Kids

 EFG
 Sing with me?

* Applause

### Leaf

* Focus Pocus clicks to the word leaf
* Katie Orosco dives into a pile of leaves, then the word "leaf" falls down.
* Nothing Gold Can Stay - Robert Frost
* Five Pieces for Mechanical Clock, WoO 33, No. 3 in C Major: Form C Kinetic, Pop Pop Top in 2 different angles (replaced by Dancing Teddy Push Toy in 2 different angles in 2004), Blacklight Mind Bender Blurz, Gearation zoomed out, SpinTrix Disc, Stacking Clown zoomed out then in
* Applause

### Snow

* Focus Pocus clicks to the word snow
* Katie Orosco plays in the snow, throws a snowball, and creates the word "snow".
* The Revival - Steve Crow
* Jane the Monkey plays in the snow, then gets buried by some snow that covers her. She pops out and laughs.
* Max the Pull-Along Dog chases Quack-Along Ducks

### Tree

* Focus Pocus clicks to the word tree
* Katie Orosco runs away from a tree after he hears an owl. The letters in "tree" then fall down.
* Loveliest of Trees, The Cherry Now - A.E. Housman
* Military March No. 1 in F Major, "For the Bohemian Guard", WoO 18: Mr. Monkey in 2 different angles, Pudgey Pig, Dancing Go-Go Gorilla, Pudgey Pig in a different angle, Mr. Monkey in a different angle, Pretty Kitty, Mr. Monkey with Dancing Go-Go Gorilla
* Applause

### Cow

* Focus Pocus clicks to the word cow
* Katie Orosco with straw hat finds the word cow with moos and paints it on the fence.
* The Calf-Path - Sam Walter Foss
* Quack-Along Ducks chases Max the Pull-Along Dog in a different angle

### Butterfly

* Focus Pocus clicks to the word butterfly
* Katie Mitchell chases the Red Butterfly Prop and breaks through the wall. As for Rick, Linda, Aaron, Deborahbeast 5000 and Eli as they hit each other, not so much. The word "butterfly" then falls down.
* The Butterfly - William Wordsworth
* Cud Cow (in a dual role) eats grass, but when Tooter the Cow shows up, she gets away. Tooter then flicks a Red Butterfly Prop off of her nose.
* The Ruins of Athens, Op. 113, "Turkish March": The Torpedo Run: Figure 8 Starter Set, with bright lights dome car and flashing caboose passes Little Knotties: Lion, Pig, and Rabbit Teddy Copter
* Applause

### Moon

* Focus Pocus clicks to the word moon
* My Loves - Langston Hughes, Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, "Pathetique", Op. 13, 2nd Movement: Katie Orosco yawns and smacks her lips. She then kisses his Beanie Baby: Curly good night. She yawns and smacks his lips again and lies down on his bed. The moon then is shown moving.

### Closing

* Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, "Chorale", 4th Movement, Op. 125: Markie with Katie Orosco and Bluebird (replaced by Bard dancing in 2004), Gabrielle and Stripes, Madeline and Sunny, Sierra dancing, Dylan and Dakota with Bluebird, Sunny, and Stripes, Aspen with Tooter, Katie Orosco, closing credits (different version in 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2020)

## Poems

* The Tale of Custard the Dragon - Ogden Nash
* A Modern Dragon - Rowena Bastin Bennett
* A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
* The Apple Tree - Galway Kinnell
* The Cat and the Moon - W. B. Yeats
* Heavenly Grass - Tennessee Williams
* Wadasa Nakamoon - Ray A. Young Bear
* Nothing Gold Can Stay - Robert Frost
* The Revival - Steve Crow
* Loveliest of Trees, The Cherry Now - A. E. Housman
* The Calf-Path - Sam Walter Foss
* The Butterfly - William Wordsworth
* My Loves - Langston Hughes

## Trivia

* The original VHS and DVD covers depicted Bard the Dragon, but later in 2001 (especially by the time Disney brought the rights), a gecko would be shown on the cover.
* This is the first video to have Katie Orosco (portrayed by Lindsay Lohan) as the puppeteer and to have kids other than Aspen and Sierra (not counting the *Baby Mozart* 1998 discussion).
* All of the kids in this video are girls (not counting stock footage).
* This is the first video to have classical music by Beethoven.
* This is the first educational video that teaches children about vocabulary and words.
* This video was originally going to be two videos because it was not originally planned to have all Beethoven music, as the Beethoven music in this video was originally going to have its own video titled "[ *Baby Beethoven*]" and was also going to reuse Bard's "*Baby Mozart*" scene, and the poetry part of the video was also going to be its own called *Baby Shakespeare* and was going to be a multi-composer video featuring music from not just Beethoven, but also Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Gioachino Rossini, but the two separate videos ended up being scrapped due to both videos both featuring similar Beethoven music and the two ideas for both videos ended up being merged together to create the Baby Shakespeare video as we see it today.
* In the 2003 of the Castilian Spanish & Chinese, there is no Alphabet Song and no Markie kids and the puppets.
* In the 2005 of the Brazilian and the Cantonese, there is no Alphabet Song.
* Some of these toys were later seen in other videos: The Big Blocks in Baby Einstein 2004, as well the Sesame Street Express Train Ride-On in the 1997 version, later replaced by the Casey Toy Train Engine, People Car, Smiley Face Gondola and Circus Caboose in the 2004 version; the Gearation in Baby Van Gogh and Baby da Vinci; yellow and orange versions of the Bender Blurz in Baby Van Gogh; Pudgey Pig in Neighborhood Animals; Mr. Monkey in World Animals and Little Knotties: Marley the Lion, Penelope the Pig and Whiskers the Rabbit are in Baby Beethoven.
* This is the debut of Sunny, Bluebird, Cud, Stripes, and Jane. This is the only appearance of Quackamus and Tooter (the footage of them was reused in World of Words).
* This is the only appearance of Dylan and Dakota Gonzalez; footage of them here was later reused in World of Words. This is the first appearance of Madeline and Gabrielle.
* World of Words was the latest version of this video.
* This video was the last video to have a "Stay Tuned Screen" at the beginning of some VHS Releases.
* Dylan Snider, one of the girls who sang the alphabet song, posted a picture on August 28, 2020 of her and her sister on her Instagram story, tagging their mom and asking "Mom who is who? Asking for myself. Pretty confident I'm in purple but it's a close call here."
* This is the last BE video on its original release to not have the Baby Einstein caterpillar logo.
* This is also the last BE video to be released in the 1990s decade, as it was released in 1999.
* This is also the last BE video to be released during the The Platinum (Or Diamond) Age.
* The *Baby Shakespeare* theme and the Alphabet song are the only two Non-Beethoven songs in this video.
* This is the second BE video to feature Katie Orosco, the first being the Academy Award winning "*Baby Mozart*".
	+ Bard is the only puppet in this video to not debut in this video.
* This is also the first BE video that featured classical music to not have an emphasis on it.
* This is also the first BE video where the opening and credits themes is are not in C major or G major. The opening theme is in A-flat major and the closing theme (Ode to Joy) is in D major.
* This is the first video since Baby Einstein where the opening and credits themes are not the same.
* This is the first BE video to be produced by The Baby Einstein Company, which was renamed from Aigner-Clark Productions 9 months before this video's release.
* The 2000 DVD Concert Hall has music from the Baby Beethoven Concert for Little Ears CD with Bedtime and Playtime.
* On top of that, the music heard on the Baby Shakespeare 2000 DVD Concert Hall Selection has the same music as the Baby Beethoven Concert for Little Ears CD with Bedtime and Playtime, Enclosed on the 2000 VHS with Bard the Dragon on the cover. But, on the VHS with the Gecko, the 2001-2002 VHS comes with the Baby Shakespeare Soundtrack CD, containing almost every Beethoven piece from Baby Shakespeare is heard on the CD, except the Sonata No. 8 Pathetique 2nd Movement, Op. 13 by Ludwig Van Beethoven, because the 3rd Movement of that piece takes place as an alternative on the Soundtrack CD. The Soundtrack CD is enclosed on the 2001 -2002 VHS with the Gecko on the cover. Some copies of the 2003 VHS come with the Baby Shakespeare Soundtrack CD because the 2003 VHS has the same video footage as 2002, besides the cover.
* The train footage was shot at the Georgetown Loop Railroad in Colorado.
* The audio clip of Bard yawning was later used in a high pitch for Baby Baaach the Lamb's yawn in "[ *Baby Lullaby*]".
* In the 2004 version of the flower intro and ending, the Bard puppet is a Pre-Disney bath puppet presumably with Playsoup eyes which was made the same way with [ Baby Newton the Lion] in Legends & Lore form in "[ *Baby Noah*]".
* Bard with Playsoup eyes appears in the 10 Years of Discovery documentary video.

## Puppets

* Katie Orosco (Host) (played by Katie Orosco (portrayed by Lindsay Lohan) & Bader Shammas) (second appearance)
* Rick Orosco (Co-Host) (played by Katie Orosco (portrayed by Lindsay Lohan) & Bader Shammas) (first appearance)
* Linda Orosco (Co-Host) (played by Katie Orosco (portrayed by Lindsay Lohan) & Bader Shammas) (first appearance)
* Aaron Orosco (Co-Host) (played by Katie Orosco (portrayed by Lindsay Lohan) & Bader Shammas) (first appearance)
* Deborahbeast 5000 The Koala (originally named Baby Mozart The Koala) (played by Katie Orosco (portrayed by Lindsay Lohan) & Bader Shammas) (first appearance)
* Eli the Giraffe (originally named Baby Beethoven the Giraffe) (played by Katie Orosco (portrayed by Lindsay Lohan) & Bader Shammas) (first appearance)
* Sunny Bunny (played by Markie Scholz) (first appearance)
* Bluebird (played by Markie Scholz) (first appearance)
* Cud Cow (played by Markie Scholz) (first appearance)
* Stripes the Tiger (played by Markie Scholz) (first appearance)
* Quackamus Duck (played by Markie Scholz) (only appearance)
* Jane the Monkey (played by Markie Scholz) (first appearance)
* Tooter the Cow (played by Markie Scholz) (only appearance)

## Kids

* Aspen Clark (wearing a blue sweatshirt and a black headband)
* Dylan and Dakota Gonzalez (wearing a purple and pink sweatshirts and hair tie khaki pants)
* Gabrielle Margas (wearing a yellow sweatshirt and blue jorts)
* Madeline Pluto (wearing a red sweatshirt, beige pants and yellow headband)
* Sierra Clark (wearing a green sweatshirt and pink pigtails)

## Puppeteer

* Katie Orosco (portrayed by Lindsay Lohan)

## Songs

### Video Songs

1. Them from Symphony No. 9, 2nd Movement (arr. by Liszt) (Opening)
2. Baby Shakespeare Theme, Weisbach (Opening Credits)
3. The Alphabet Song, Traditional (Acoustic Version)
4. Rondo a Capriccio in G Major, Rage Over a Lost Penny, Op. 129 (Train)
5. Rondo in C Major, Op. 51, No. 1 (Apple)
6. Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor, Für Elise, WoO 59 (Grass)
7. The Alphabet Song (Reprise), Traditional (Percussion Version) (Frog)
8. Five Pieces for Mechanical Clock, WoO 33, No. 3 in C Major (Leaf)
9. Military March No. 1 in F Major, "For the Bohemian Guard", WoO 18 (Tree)
10. The Ruins of Athens, Op. 113, "Turkish March" (Butterfly)
11. Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, "Pathetique", Op. 13, 2nd Movement (Moon)
12. Symphony No. 9 in D Major, "Chorale", Op. 125, 4th Movement (Closing Credits)

### Bonus Songs (Baby Beethoven CD and Concert Hall with Bedtime and Playtime)

1. Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21, 3rd Movement (found in Baby Beethoven)
2. Minuet in G Major, WoO 10, No. 2
3. Sonatina in F Major, WoO 50 (found in Baby Beethoven)
4. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C Sharp Minor, "Moonlight", Op. 27, 2nd Movement
5. Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, "Fate", Op. 67, 1st Movement (found in Neighborhood Animals and Baby Beethoven)
6. Sonatina in G Major, WoO, Anh. 5 (found in World of Words)
7. Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, "Pathetique", Op. 13, 3rd Movement
8. Piano Sonata No. 2 In A Major, Op. 2, No. 2, 1st Movement
9. Symphony No. 6 in F Major, "Pastorale", Op. 68, 3rd Movement (found in Baby Beethoven)
10. Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, "Chorale", Op. 125, Coda (found in Baby Beethoven)

## Discovery Cards

* Chalk
* Chalkboard
* Crayons
* Desk
* Easel
* Markers
* Notebooks
* Paper
* Pen
* Pencil
* Quill
* Scroll

## Crew

 Writer / Director
 Producer
 Video Producers
 Graphic design
Linda/Laura Koepke
 Music
 Kids
Dylan and Dakota Gonzalez
Gabrielle Margas
Madeline Pluto
Sierra Clark

## Release

The film subsequently accompanied "*Tarzan*" in theaters.

## Reception

### Box Office

"*Baby Shakespeare*" became a box office failure by grossing no money on the $130 million budget but the movie "*Tarzan*" did not grossing $448,191,819 on the $130 million budget.

### Response

"*Baby Shakespeare*" has an approval rating of 0% on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on nine reviews, with an average rating of 0/10, a 0/100 on Critic's Choice, a 0 on Metacritic and a F on CinemaScore.