Elmo the Musical Elmo the Musical Elmo the Musical is a Sesame Street segment that began airing in Season 43. It appears in every episode until Season 46, where it alternated with Elmo's World. In the segment, Elmo teaches math skills while imagining himself in different musical situations, such as "Sea Captain the Musical", "Mountain Climber the Musical", "Prince Elmo the Musical" and "President the Musical". Joining Elmo in his adventures is Velvet, a talking set of curtains, and a series of animal and Anything Muppet friends. The segment's theme song was composed by Adam Schlesinger, while the legal registration ascribes lyrics to
Elmo's World segment presented Elmo moving between and combining two worlds of live action and computer-generated animation, which looked like "a child's squiggly crayon drawing come to life" created by the host, and with "a stream-of-consciousness feel to it". Elmo's pet goldfish Dorothy and the members of the Noodle family were silent in order to allow Elmo to do all the talking, and to give children the opportunity to respond to what they saw on the screen. In 2009, "Elmo's World" temporarily ceased production and was replaced by "Elmo the Musical" in 2012, until returning in 2017. By the early 1990s, "Sesame