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Barney Live in New York City

1994 film in season 3

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ4861745 ↗
Source-derived summary

Barney Live In New York City (originally titled Barney Live! At Radio City, also known as Barney & Friends: Live in New York City) is a Barney & Friends stage show, taped at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on March 6, 1994 and released on video on August 26, 1994. It was also the largest Barney & Friends stage show.

Plot

Barney and his friends take the stage to delight and entertain everyone at Radio City Music Hall. They all work together to make a special surprise for the audience using items from "The Barney Bag". But before they are able to share it, a new visitor, The Winkster, steals the bag and runs away with it. Throughout the show, the gang tries to catch The Winkster and teach him that it is important to have friends and to share. Also, the chase takes everyone to "Barney's Imagination Circus" with fun-loving clowns and some dancing bears.

Cast

Barney (voice) - Bob West

Barney (costume) - David Joyner/Carey Stinson

Baby Bop (voice) - Julie Johnson

Baby Bop (costume) - Jeff Ayers

B.J. (voice) - Patty Wirtz

B.J. (costume) - Jeff Brooks

The Winkster - David Voss/Ashley Wood

Barney understudy - Alan Bruce

B.J. and Baby Bop understudy - Carol Farabee

Shawn - John David Bennett, II

Derek - Rickey Carter

Tosha - Hope Cervantes

Kathy - Lauren King

Carlos - Corey Lopez

Min - Pia Manalo

Julie - Susannah Wetzel

Kelly - Rebecca Wilson

Dancers

Barbara Angeline

Joe Bowerman

Tina Bush

Garland Days

David DeCooman

Vivien Eng

Raymond Harris

Steven Petrillo

Carolyn Ockert

Michelle Robinson

Amy Shure

Kristin Willits

Dana Zell

Guest - Morgan Jordan

Narrator - Charles Edward Hall

Songs

Act One

Barney Theme Song (Tune: Yankee Doodle)

The More We Get Together

Mr. Knickerbocker

Ring Around the Rosie

My Yellow Blankey

The Barney Bag

The Winkster

She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain

B.J.'s Song

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Rain Medley (Rain Rain Go Away and It's Raining, It's Pouring)

If all the Raindrops

And the Green Grass Grows All Around

I Am a Fine Musician

Act Two

Boom, Boom, Ain't It Great to Be Crazy?

Editorial summary

“Barney Live in New York City” enters the record as 1994 film in season 3. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Barney, Live and York can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1994-08-03. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Barney, Live and York.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4861745. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994.

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