- Prairie Dawn
Prairie Dawn is a
fictional character , a rather mature seven-year-oldMuppet girl on the children's television program "Sesame Street ". She is similar in appearance to a character from theAnything Muppets . She is famous for writingschool pageant s (e.g., Sesame Street Little Theater) for her friends, mostlyErnie and Bert , Herry,Grover , andCookie Monster . She also plays thepiano during these pageants as well. She has appeared on Sesame Street since early in the show's history. Prairie is puppeteered and voiced byFran Brill who also performs the more recently introduced character Zoe.On the revamped "Sesame Street", she helps Cookie Monster during his
Letter of the Day segments.She can also be seen on the TV series
Play With Me Sesame , which airs on Noggin. A younger version of Prairie appeared in "Sesame Beginnings ".According to the website of
Leslie Carrara-Rudolph , who voices Prairie Dawn's mother in "Sesame Beginnings", her mother's name is Delta [http://www.lesliecarrara-rudolph.com/Leslie%20Screen.html] , a reference to the song "Delta Dawn ".External links
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