Barney: Barney's Big Surprise! His All New Live Stage Show

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In the Barney News on the 1996 Family Magazine, the songs, " John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" and " Everyone is Special", were mentioned, but they do not appear in this live show. This is also the first Barney live show to feature kids that never appeared in the television series. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon.

He tells them that thanks to his balloon machine, they can chose any color balloon they like, leading into the song “The Rainbow Song”. After the song, Barney and the children tell BJ to stand away from them so they can discuss plans for BJ’s birthday party. Everyone waves goodbye after the song and Barney blows a kiss to the audience, drawing the show to a close. After the song, they gang gets into the topic of BJ’s birthday party, in which Professor Tinkerputt tells Barney that he’ll need his car to drive BJ’s surprise back to the treehouse due to its size.After the song, Baby Bop skips onto the stage but proceeds to hide behind Barney due to her being shy in front of the audience. The show made its world premiere on September 10, 1996 at Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas.

Due to her being the last in line, Baby Bop proceeds to question as to why she’s in the back and seeing it as unfair. It's unknown as to which child actors portrayed which specific characters as their title was only referred to as child performers in print for the cast personnel. After the song ends, Barney notices that he has so many friends in the audience, that he can’t see everyone’s smiles, leading him into the song, “If You’re Happy and You Know It”, so he knows that everyone is happy.The voice of Professor Tinkerputt was done by Blas García as well, while Barry Pearl would still be on stage. It was released in 1998 when the show toured in Mexico, and was later released in Colombia in 2000 and in 2005 when the show toured in Argentina. Soon, Baby Bop wonders if the audience his here for the big surprise, in which Barney tells them that they don’t know about it. He then takes the audience to the treehouse where they’re introduced to Kevin, Cindy, Tony, and Rachel respectively. Cut before Barney's Big Surprise was released on home video, " Listen to the Night Time" was removed from the tour due to the energy it brought down for the show.

Barney proceeds to tell her that the people in the audience are friends, making her more comfortable in front of them. Originally meant to tour in sixty cities, the tour performed in over eighty cities during its original run. A retail version of the album was released on May 6, 1997 (the same day as Barney's Musical Scrapbook). The audio track on the screener version of the video was a work in progress, as the final audio wasn't completed yet at the time. Dick Leach, the chairman of Lyrick Studios (the company that owned Barney at the time), and his daughter, Sheryl Leach, the creator of Barney, at first envisioned a show that would play in theaters, much like the performance at Radio City Music Hall in 1994, however, Barney's Big Surprise was too big to play in theaters.During the song, all the children come out in corn costumes, along with Baby Bop, holding up signs of various farm animals. From 1996-1997, some performances would feature the costumes based on the season three Barney costume and the 1996 Baby Bop and BJ costumes, but sometimes they use the 1995 Baby Bop and BJ costumes on the tour. Specializing in the sale of collector's items such as VHS tapes, music in various formats such as vinyl records, cassette tapes, CDs and various types of magazines and books. After the song, Barney says that it would make him happy if he introduced the audience to some other friends of his.