Gallery[]
MCA Version[]
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
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 control room crew
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
The empty auditorium
A playbill graphic
A playbill graphic of "Raffi on Broadway"
Title card
Title card #2
The stage set
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, will you please give a warm welcome for Raffi?"
Raffi arriving on stage
The audience
"Hello, my friends."
"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 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"
"And love in my family"
"Join us now."
"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"
"And love in my family"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah"
"Love in my family"
"Come on now, let me hear you singing."
"Love in my family"
"For the brothers and sisters."
"Love in my family"
"Love in my family"
"For the mamas and papas."
"Love in my family"
"Rise with the blue bird, shine like the sun"
"The world is turning"
"And everyone is waking"
"Rise and shine"
"On this new day, the morning light is breaking"
The lights
"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"
"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 and Connie
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."
Raffi and the audience
"You know, today we have quite a show for you. We got some old songs and we got some new songs."
"We have bad jokes."
"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
"Hmm."
"How about something smaller, maybe a smaller drum? Let's hear that."
Michael playing the bongo drums
"Yeah, very bongo-like."
"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."
Michael shrugging
"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."
"Okay, you ready?"
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 breathing in
Raffi breathing out
Raffi putting his guitar back on
Raffi putting his guitar capo down on the stool
Raffi hearing birds whistling and twittering
A drawing of the Earth
The footage's fade error
A little girl and her mother
Raffi humming
"Sing it for America!"
"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."
Another little girl
"Now, friends,"
"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
"You know..."
Philip holding a bag
"Now what?"
Raffi and Philip
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
"What do we have here?"
"Connie, look."
"Hmm."
"Hmm."
The banana ringing
"Hello? Hello?"
"It's a bananaphone!"
"A phone with a peal!"
"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!"
"Day-O!" (Notice that another bananaphone is on the keyboards.)
"Me say Day-O!"
"Me say Day-O!"
"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!"
"Day!"
"Me say Day, Me say Day,"
"Me say Day, Me say Day, Me Say Daaaaaay-OOOOOOOO"
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"
"BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR"
"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."
Two boys in Raffi shirts
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?"
Michael and Raffi
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 trumpeting
Raffi, Michael, and Connie trumpeting
A boy in the audience playing the guitar
Michael trumpeting
The audience trumpeting
Raffi trumpeting in close-up
Raffi, Michael, and the third Baby Beluga drawing
Raffi, Michael, and the fourth Baby Beluga drawing
"Thank you."
Raffi walking back down his center stage section
Raffi after he put away his microphone stand
Raffi and his guitars
"Sometimes, I wonder how Bob Dylan would sing "Baby Beluga"?
"You're just a little white whale on the go"
"Yeah, Beluga Babe"
"Baby Beluga, ah"
"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
"Hello."
"Hi. Hello, hello."
"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
The lights
One Light, One Sun (Notice that we see a drawing of Raffi from the album: Singable Songs for the Very Young)
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
Another little girl
A girl in the glasses and a Raffi on Broadway shirt
Another little girl
"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
"Everyday, everyday"
"I'm"
"Gonna let my little light shine"
Raffi bowing
Raffi taking off his alternative guitar
Raffi putting away his alternative guitar
The audience standing up
Raffi kissing goodbye
Connie and Michael playing the instrumental reprise
Raffi waving goodbye
Raffi leaving the stage
Raffi arriving back on stage
"Well, well, well."
"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
Rappin' Raffi
"Yo!"
"Yo, what's up? You wanna hear me do a rap number?"
"Yo, Michael, give me a rhythm, man."
"You're on."
Michael putting on his rap glasses
Michael wearing his rap glasses
Michael turning on the rap drums
The middle planet sets glowing
Rappin' Raffi dancing
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"
"Yo, brush your teeth!"
"Yo, brush your teeth!"
Connie holding a giant toothbrush while wearing rap glasses
Michael, Raffi, and Connie wearing rap glasses
Connie brushing Rappin' Raffi's teeth
Rappin' Raffi and Connie
Another little girl
"Did you ever see a goose kissing a moose
down by the bay?"
"Did you ever see a fly wearing a tie down by the bay?"
"Did you ever see a whale with a polka dot tail
down by the bay?"
"Did you ever see Connie with Bugs Bunny
down by the bay?"
"Did you ever see a bear shampooing his hair
down by the bay?"
"Did you ever see Michael unicycle down by the bay?"
Raffi barking like a dog
Raffi singing like Dylan
"Did you ever see Raffi covered in taffy
down by the bay?"
"Did you ever see a snail delivering the mail
down by the bay?"
"Did you ever see llamas eating their pajamas
down by the bay?"
"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..."
"No!"
"Down by the..."
Connie nodding no
"Did you ever see a guitar going shopping down by the..."
"No!"
"Down by the..."
"It doesn't rhyme."
"Did you ever have a time when you couldn't make it rhyme"
"down by the bay?"
"HEY!"
Michael doing a piano flourish
Raffi, Michael, and his guitars
Raffi and his microphone
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"
"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 waving goodbye
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 end credits
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
The endboard
![A text about the Raffi on Broadway soundtrack]](/wiki/File:RaffionBroadwaySoundtrackText.png "RaffionBroadwaySoundtrackText.png (96 KB)")
A text about the Raffi on Broadway soundtrack]
Creditless[]
A complete creditless version of the far freeze frame shot
Rounder Records Version[]
"What I also find encouraging is that"
"children are getting together on their own"
"and forming groups to help clean up their world."
"And uh, it's true."
.png "RaffionBroadway434(AlternateAngle).png (318 KB)")
Alternate angle ("And I've asked some local kids to come up on stage, take a bow, and sing with me tonight."
Alternate angle
Alternate angle
.png "RaffionBroadway436(AlternateAngle).png (394 KB)")
Alternate angle
.png "RaffionBroadway437(AlternateAngle).png (434 KB)")
Alternate angle
.png "RaffionBroadway465(AlternateAngle).png (277 KB)")
Alternate angle
Alternate angle
.png "RaffionBroadway467(AlternateAngle).png (418 KB)")
Alternate angle
.png "RaffionBroadway470(Re-edited).png (398 KB)")
Re-edited shot (Notice that the censor bar covers the Kids for Saving Earth logo)
.png "RaffionBroadway470(AlternateAngle).png (324 KB)")
Alternate angle
.png "RaffionBroadway471(AlternateAngle).png (340 KB)")
Alternate angle
2.png "RaffionBroadway471(AlternateAngle)2.png (383 KB)")
Alternate angle
3.png "RaffionBroadway471(AlternateAngle)3.png (367 KB)")
Alternate angle
Alternate angle
.png "RaffionBroadway472(AlternateAngle).png (407 KB)")
Alternate angle
.png "RaffionBroadway473(Re-edited).png (331 KB)")
Re-edited shot
Extended shot, although re-edited
.png "RaffionBroadway475(AlternateAngle).png (385 KB)")
Alternate angle, although re-edited
Extended shot, although re-edited
.png "RaffionBroadway479(Re-edited).png (410 KB)")
Re-edited shot
.png "RaffionBroadway480(AlternateAngle).png (242 KB)")
Alternate angle
.png "RaffionBroadway482(AlternateAngle).png (420 KB)")
Alternate angle
.png "RaffionBroadway487(AlternateAngle).png (391 KB)")
Alternate angle, although re-edited
.png "RaffionBroadway488(Re-edited).png (379 KB)")
Re-edited shot
.png "RaffionBroadway489(Re-edited).png (386 KB)")
Re-edited shot
.png "RaffionBroadway491(Re-edited).png (383 KB)")
Re-edited shot
.png "RaffionBroadway493(Re-edited).png (390 KB)")
Re-edited shot
.png "RaffionBroadway495(AlternateAngle).png (401 KB)")
Alternate angle, although re-edited
.png "RaffionBroadway496(AlternateAngle).png (386 KB)")
Alternate angle, although re-edited
.png "RaffionBroadway497(AlternateAngle).png (232 KB)")
Alternate angle
.png "RaffionBroadway498(AlternateAngle).png (463 KB)")
Alternate angle
.png "RaffionBroadway501(AlternateAngle).png (220 KB)")
Alternate angle
.png "RaffionBroadway502(AlternateAngle).png (386 KB)")
Alternate angle
.png "RaffionBroadway503(AlternateAngle).png (380 KB)")
Alternate angle
.png "RaffionBroadway505(AlternateAngle).png (396 KB)")
Alternate angle
.png "RaffionBroadway506(AlternateAngle).png (263 KB)")
Alternate angle
.png "RaffionBroadway507(Re-edited).png (367 KB)")
Re-edited shot
.png "RaffionBroadway510(AlternateAngle).png (377 KB)")
Alternate angle, although re-edited
.png "RaffionBroadway511(AlternateAngle).png (213 KB)")
Alternate angle
.png "RaffionBroadway515(AlternateAngle).png (386 KB)")
Alternate angle
.png "RaffionBroadway516(AlternateAngle).png (393 KB)")
Alternate angle
Alternate angle
.png "RaffionBroadway518(Re-edited).png (383 KB)")
Re-edited shot
.png "RaffionBroadway520(Re-edited).png (344 KB)")
Re-edited shot
.png "RaffionBroadway521(AlternateAngle).png (245 KB)")
Alternate angle
.png "RaffionBroadway522(AlternateAngle).png (255 KB)")
Alternate angle
.png "RaffionBroadway523(AlternateAngle).png (456 KB)")
Alternate angle
.png "RaffionBroadway524(AlternateAngle).png (312 KB)")
Alternate angle
.png "RaffionBroadwayendcredits8(RounderRecords).png (251 KB)")
.png "RaffionBroadwayendcredits9(RounderRecords).png (278 KB)")
.png "RaffionBroadwayendcredits10(RounderRecords).png (311 KB)")
.png "RaffionBroadwayendcredits11(RounderRecords).png (309 KB)")
.png "RaffionBroadwayendcredits12(RounderRecords).png (317 KB)")
.png "RaffionBroadwayendcredits13(RounderRecords).png (332 KB)")
.png "RaffionBroadwayendcredits14(RounderRecords).png (378 KB)")
.png "RaffionBroadwayendcredits15(RounderRecords).png (287 KB)")
Notice that the Line Producer credit is added, unlike the MCA version.
.png "RaffionBroadwayendcredits16(RounderRecords).png (292 KB)")
.png "RaffionBroadwayendcredits17(RounderRecords).png (302 KB)")
.png "RaffionBroadwayendcredits18(RounderRecords).png (330 KB)")
.png "RaffionBroadwayendcredits19(RounderRecords).png (332 KB)")
.png "RaffionBroadwayendcredits20(RounderRecords).png (345 KB)")
.png "RaffionBroadwayendcredits21(RounderRecords).png (419 KB)")
.png "RaffionBroadwayendcredits22(RounderRecords).png (324 KB)")
.png "RaffionBroadwayendcredits23(RounderRecords).png (340 KB)")
.png "RaffionBroadwayTextFact(RounderRecords).png (308 KB)")
Promotional Photos[]
Raffi and the Kids for Saving Earth singers
Raffi and his poster outside the Gershwin Theatre
All I Really Need (Reprise)
Michael, Mr. Ramone, Raffi, and Connie
A black and white photo of Raffi and his poster outside the Gershwin Theatre
Raffi playing his Takamine EF349 prototype guitar
Michael and Raffi
Raffi and Connie backstage
Promo photo montage
Planet-Shaped Screen Drawings[]
A Kids for Saving Earth logo
VHS/DVD Gallery[]
1993 MCA VHS
1993 MCA VHS back cover
1993 MCA VHS spine
1993 MCA VHS top
1993 VHS tape
1993 VHS tape label
1999 Rounder Records edition
1999 Rounder Records edition back cover
1999 Rounder Records tape
The video in the Rounder poster
DVD
DVD back cover
DVD disc
Troubadour DVD
Troubadour DVD back cover
Amazon cover
The DVD in Raffi Renaissance
Promotions[]
Press photo #1
Press photo #2
Playbill
Playbill ticket
DVD Menu[]
DVD menu
Song selection menu #1
Song selection menu #2