The camera crane operator's shadow on the sun drawing
Raffi playing his guitar at the show's rehearsal
Behind the Scenes of the show's set
The audience outside the Gershwin Theatre
A crew member constructing the set
The kids (AKA the Kids For Saving Earth singers) in the dressing room
The audience in the Gershwin Theatre's lobby
Raffi in a sweater at the show's rehearsal
Michael, Raffi, and Connie bowing at the show's rehearsal
Raffi at the show's rehearsal
Raffi and the Kids for Saving Earth singers at the show's rehearsal
A Raffi on Broadway playbill
Raffi, Michael, and Connie backstage
The sound lever thermometers
The camera screen monitors
A little girl and her big brother outside the Gershwin Theatre
A Raffi on Broadway poster
Some audience members on the escalator
Some KSE singers conga sway dancing
A camera crane operator on the set
A camera attached to the crane
A playbill graphic of "Raffi on Broadway"
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, will you please give a warm welcome for Raffi?"
"Food in my belly and love in my family"
"All I really need is a song in my heart and love in my family"
"And I need the rain to fall"
"Oh, I need the sun to shine"
"To give life to the seeds we sow, to give the food we need to grow"
"All I really need is a song in my heart"
"All I really need is a song in my heart"
"Food in my belly and love in my family"
"All I really need is a song in my heart and love in my family"
"And I need some clean water for drinking, yeah, yeah, yeah"
"Oh, I need some clean air for breathing"
"So that I can grow up strong and take my place where I belong"
"All I really need is a song in my heart"
"Come on now, let me hear you singing."
"For the brothers and sisters."
"Love in my family"
"For the mamas and papas."
"Rise with the blue bird, shine like the sun"
"On this new day, the morning light is breaking"
"So rise with the rest of the"
"Shine like a pearl rise"
"And show you love all around the world"
"Oh, rise with the bluebird, shine like the sun"
"Now's the time to rise and shine"
"Today is calling and this is what it's saying"
"Rise and shine, your friends are waking"
"It's time for work and playing"
Raffi taking off his guitar
Raffi fetching his microphone
"Thank you very much and hello, everyone."
"I've waited a long time for this..."
"...to be here with you on Broadway."
"You know, today we have quite a show for you. We got some old songs and we got some new songs."
"But before I go any further, let me introduce the fine members of this band."
"On bass, Connie Lebeau."
"And on the keyboards, Michael Creber."
"And Michael has with him a magical little box that can make any sound you want to hear."
"N-now listen to this. Uh, let's hear the sound of a big bass drum, Michael."
Michael playing the bass drum
"How about something smaller, maybe a smaller drum? Let's hear that."
Michael playing the bongo drums
"Or should I say bongo-esk?"
"Um, let's hear the sound of a cowbell."
Michael playing the cowbell and mooing
"Just the bell, just the bell, please."
"He can make the sound of bowling, ladies and gentlemen."
"Well, there's the strike."
"We're gonna be hearing all kinds of sounds from Michael all through the show. But right now, I want you and I to make a sound together that you've probably never heard before. Just using our hands and our bodies, we're gonna make the sound of a rainstorm right inside this theater. How about that? Let me see your hands ready. Alright."
Stage director Philip Adelman holding an umbrella
Michael, Raffi, Philip, and Connie
"No, no, no, we won't need that, we're just pretending."
Raffi snapping his fingers for the raindrops
The audience snapping their fingers for the raindrops
Raffi, Michael, and Connie snapping their fingers for the raindrops
Raffi clapping his hands for the rain
The audience clapping their hands for the rain
Raffi and the audience clapping their hands for the rain
Raffi patting his knees for the thunder
The audience patting their knees for the thunder
Raffi and the audience patting their knees for the thunder
Raffi clapping his hands again for the rain
Raffi, Michael, and Connie clapping their hands for the rain
Raffi snapping his fingers again for the raindrops
Raffi snapping his fingers on the left side
Raffi putting his guitar back on
Raffi putting his guitar capo down on the stool
Raffi hearing birds whistling and twittering
A little girl and her mother
"Let's sing it for the world's rainforest!"
"You know, I've got an unusual song for you coming up next."
"We thought it would be fun to send this one when you're away with a country twang and it goes like this."
"when you have yourself one of them days, nothing seems to be going right,"
"and you don't know what to do; you just feel twisted."
"Well, don't despair, hop on down to your neighborhood bowling alley."
"You're sure to find some pins"
"standing up for you to knock them down."
Michael turning off the drum button
Michael doing a piano flourish
A drawing of different kids
Raffi signing his name on Philip's checklist
Raffi, Philip, and Connie
Raffi shrugging speechlessly
"Oh, it says here "Organically Grown Bananas."
Raffi and the Organically Grown Bananas bag
"Here's a family that looks like it could use a bananular phone."
Raffi throwing the bananaphone
A man in the audience catching the bananaphone
"Day-O!" (Notice that another bananaphone is on the keyboards.)
"Daylight come and me want go home"
"What? You want to sing this together?"
"Yeah? Okay. Give us some rhythm, Michael."
Michael playing the percussion track
"We could and sing and dance to this one, yeah."
"Day! Me say Day, me say Day-O!"
"Me say Day, Me say Day,"
"Me say Day, Me say Day, Me Say Daaaaaay-OOOOOOOO"
"On the next song, Connie's gonna play you a beautiful instrument called the accordion."
"And it's an instrument that I love because
my father used to play it when I was little."
"We're gonna sing for you a song all about the great love of colors, celebrating all the beauty of how rich our lives are with the colors of the world."
"And it's in Spanish. (La cancion esta en español.)"
Connie playing the accordion
"Muchas gracias." ("Thank you.")
"You know, some years ago, my friends asked me to write a song for all of us who dream of a bright and nuclear free world for our children to grow up in."
Connie putting the accordion down
Philip returning Connie's Steinberger bass
Philip putting the accordion away
Michael playing a piano solo
Raffi going up to another microphone stand
"Do you think it's time to sing Baby Beluga together?"
Raffi, Michael, and a drawing of Baby Beluga
Notice that the drawing of Baby Beluga on the left side planet-shaped screen is changed from first to second.
Raffi, Michael, and Connie trumpeting
A boy in the audience playing the guitar
Raffi trumpeting in close-up
Raffi, Michael, and the third Baby Beluga drawing
Raffi, Michael, and the fourth Baby Beluga drawing
Raffi walking back down his center stage section
Raffi after he put away his microphone stand
"Sometimes, I wonder how
Bob Dylan would sing "Baby Beluga"?
"You're just a little white whale on the go"
"I grew up listening to Bob Dylan so I think about him once in a while, y'know?"
"I want to tell you something. In the
St. Lawrence River, there used to be 5,000 belugas swimming about 50 years ago. And nowadays, because that great river is so polluted,"
"the beluga numbers have declined so much that they are on the Endangered Species List."
"It's quite sad. But what gives me hope is that everywhere I go,"
"I meet people who now understand that it's how we live. That affects the world around us, and those that we love."
"Tonight, I want to tell you about a very special group called"
"started by an 11-year-old boy from Minnesota named
Clinton Hill."
"And what started as a small club has now grown into 45 countries around the world."
"And I've asked some of the local members of K.S.E."
"to come up on stage, take a bow, and sing a couple of songs with me tonight. Would you help me please welcome
Kids for Saving Earth?"
The K.S.E. singers coming up on stage
Raffi, Michael, Connie, and the K.S.E. singers
"Well now, the first song we're gonna sing tonight is the Kids for Saving Earth Promise Song."
"And this is a musical pledge to the Earth."
A White Kids for Saving Earth logo
Raffi, Connie, and the K.S.E. singers
Some K.S.E. singers walking over to another stage area to sit down
Philip returning Raffi's microphone stand
A black Kids for Saving Earth logo
"Well done. That was wonderful hearing your voices with me"
"and I'm really glad to have you up on this stage because I think the work you're doing is very important. The work of energy conservation and recycling, planting trees reducing pollution. That's wonderful."
"And as they... as they leave the stage, how about another fine hand for them?"
"For the kids of "Kids for Saving Earth"?"
Some K.S.E. singers leaving the stage on one side
Some K.S.E. singers leaving the stage on another side
Philip taking the two-headed microphone stand away
Michael playing the synthesizer strings
Notice that the drawing of Raffi is replaced with a drawing of a mountain
Notice that the planet-shape screen is about to change from a Smiley sun to a sunrise
We see a sunrise drawing and a kite flying drawing
A girl in the glasses and a Raffi on Broadway shirt
"Let's just hear the children singing this time. Are you ready, kids? Here we go. Just the children."
The kids in the audience singing the song
"Gonna let my little light shine"
Raffi taking off his alternative guitar
Raffi putting away his alternative guitar
Connie and Michael playing the instrumental reprise
Raffi arriving back on stage
"I have a surprise for you. I bet you don't know that I sing rap songs."
"Rappin' Raffi? Hang on, watch this."
Raffi putting on his rap glasses in his rear
"Yo, what's up? You wanna hear me do a rap number?"
"Yo, Michael, give me a rhythm, man."
Michael putting on his rap glasses
Michael wearing his rap glasses
Michael turning on the rap drums
The middle planet sets glowing
A little girl wearing sunglasses
"When you wake up in the morning, it's a quarter to 1"
"You want to have a little fun"
"Yo, brush your teeth! Yo, brush your teeth!"
"When you wake up in the morning, it's a quarter to 2, you want to find something hip to do"
Connie holding a giant toothbrush while wearing rap glasses
Michael, Raffi, and Connie wearing rap glasses
Connie brushing Rappin' Raffi's teeth
"Did you ever see a goose kissing a moose
"Did you ever see a fly wearing a tie down by the bay?"
"Did you ever see a whale with a polka dot tail
"Did you ever see Connie with Bugs Bunny
"Did you ever see a bear shampooing his hair
"Did you ever see Michael unicycle down by the bay?"
"Did you ever see Raffi covered in taffy
"Did you ever see a snail delivering the mail
"Did you ever see llamas eating their pajamas
"Did you ever see a teacher kissing a creature down by the bay?"
A Minnie Mouse on a sweater
"Did you ever see a chair rolling up a hill down b..."
"Did you ever see a guitar going shopping down by the..."
"Did you ever have a time when you couldn't make it rhyme"
Michael doing a piano flourish
Raffi, Michael, and his guitars
Michael turning on the drum machine
Raffi putting away his microphone stand
The K.S.E. singers singing while returning on stage
"Yeah, put your hands together."
The K.S.E singers clapping along
"All I really, really need"
The K.S.E. singers doing their group hug movement positions
"All I really need is love"
"All I really, really need"
"All I really need is love"
"Mmm, she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah"
"All I really need is love"
"All I really need is love"
The K.S.E. singers' hands
Connie and Michael joining Raffi on his stage center
Michael, Raffi, Connie, and the K.S.E. singers
Michael, Raffi, and Connie bowing
The K.S.E. singer applauding and cheering
Connie, Raffi, Michael, and the audience
The K.S.E. singers bowing
Connie and Michael taking one final bow
Connie and Michael leaving the front stage side
Raffi, the K.S.E singers and the audience
Raffi taking one final bow while the starring credit shows his name
Raffi blowing a kiss goodbye
Raffi and the K.S.E singers
Raffi and the K.S.E. singers leaving the stage together
Keyboards & Vocals: Michael Creber
Bass, Accordion & Vocals: Connie Lebeau
The audience in the freeze frame shot
A text fact about Raffi who was appointed Goodwill Ambassador in 1992
"This is a beautiful Japanese song, a traditional folk song about springtime coming."
Raffi in the bonus segment
Michael playing the keyboard flute
Bonus segment footage error
Raffi, Connie, and Michael in the bonus segment
Michael playing the keyboard flute during the instrumental break
Raffi singing wordlessly during the instrumental break
Michael playing the outro on the keyboard flute
Raffi, Connie, Michael, and the audience in the bonus segment
"And this song is one that I first heard
Pete Seeger sing, and he tells me that it was written by a 4-year-old boy in Russia."
"And it's just got four lines and it's been translated into a number of languages."
Raffi and Connie in the bonus segment
Raffi singing the song in Russian
Raffi singing the song in English
Raffi singing the song in Spanish
Raffi singing the song in French
Michael and Raffi in the bonus segment
The following additional end credits
The endboard before the far freeze frame shot fades out