Pee-wee's Playhouse is Back!

Pee-wee Herman recently told MTV that he is launching a new live stage show -- "I'm going to be performing downtown live, here in Los Angeles at Club Nokia. The show opens January 12 and runs till the 14th of February. It's incredible, it's incredible, it's incredible. The show is just — can I say — incredible."

The Pee-wee Herman Show will feature Broadway-scale production values, music and singing — as well as 11 actors, 19 puppets and 7 puppeteers.

"The basic plot of the show is Pee-wee Herman — played by myself — wishes that he could fly. Which is kind of taken from real life. It's a case of art imitating life."

Returning to the show will be Jambi, Conky, Magic Screen, Globey, Cowboy Curtis, Chairry, the King of Cartoons Flowers and his big ball of foil.

"The foil ball is the biggest improvement, literally, in this show from the original show, because the foil ball is about [knee high] in the original show. And I'm not going to say how big it is now — I'd like people to come and see for themselves — but let's just say it's big. The aluminum-foil budget alone for this show was staggering!"