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Songbirds of a Feather The team behind Amazon and Gaumont’s Do, Re & Mi sing the praises of their new musical preschool show. By Ramin Zahed
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mazon Prime Video’s preschool lineup gets a big musical boost as Gaumont Animation’s charming new preschool show Do, Re & Mi hits the right notes on the streamer this month. The show, which follows the adventures of the three titular best bird friends, aims to teach kids about music while entertaining them with their colorful adventures at the same time. The series, which is the brainchild of Jackie Tohn (American Idol) and Michael Scharf (The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation), along with Ivan Askwith and Kristen Bell, evolved quite organically as the extension of the friendship between Tohn, Scharf and Bell. Tohn and Bell also voice the characters Re and Mi, respectively, alongside Luke Youngblood (Galavant, Fast & Furious: Spy Racers) as Do. As Tohn tells us, “Mike and I had been friends for a couple years when he asked me to meet him at a coffee shop on Sunset Boulevard in 2014 to talk about a project. We hit the ground running that day, with Mike sketching and drawing nonstop, and me and Dave Schuler
‘We hope that kids will get acquainted with and want to listen to all different genres of music. And mostly that they will then want to make music of their own!’
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— Co-creator Jackie Tohn
Fine Tuned: The show developed as an extension of the friendship between creators Jackie Tohn, Michael Scharf and Kristen Bell. september|october 21
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