Saturday, August 7, 2021

The Original Sunshine Barn

 

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Madeline Fretz - The Sunshine Barn, the primary location of The Sunny Side Up Show from 2007 to 2015, was located on "Sprout Farm" somewhere in the hills of Sprout, but Sprout Farm was in the Comcast Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and later 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City. At first, the team behind the scenes rehearsed in a studio in Haddon Heights, New Jersey, and the set back then was very small. Sets of TV live programs are usually small.

This was back when The Sunny Side Up Show was low budget when compared to the one with the bigger set.

The original set consisted of a dresser to play "Dress Chica" games, a window with the sun (nighttime during birthday segments), the day of the week above the window, a scrambled egg clock, a birthday card billboard which also included pictures of the hosts, a desk crate for Chica and the hosts which usually displayed stickers of each week's theme, and toaster-like screen with cardboard bread popping out (it originally said "MAIL!"), and a door for Mr. Mailman to slide out. A lot of stuff for a cramped, cheap set if you ask me.

Image from YouTube

In January 2009, the set changed, and looked more like an actual barn than a decorated office. Kelly Vrooman was hysterical that week! (source)

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