Cast members of  Sesame Street Live "Elmo’s Health Heroes,” which began a four-day run Sept. 9 at the 1st Mariner Arena in Baltimore, Md., the duo toured the hospital with Barbara Schreiber, executive director of the Starlight Children’s Foundation, Mid-Atlantic Chapter, which was treating some 100 area children with chronic and life-threatening diseases and their families to the show. 

“We asked the Sesame Street Live troupe if some of the gang could visit Johns Hopkins patients who can’t join us tomorrow,” she said. 

“You’re going to just freak when you see how I’ve decorated my room here,” an animated Iyana Brumfield, 5, told an attentive Elmo in the sixth floor playroom. “I can’t wait to show you.” 

She was among the many patients who trailed into the playrooms that morning to greet their colorful visitors once word got out that they’d landed, so to speak. Children arrived on foot, in wagons and wheelchairs, and in their parents’ arms.   

“What a crowd,” said Annie Beatson, Child Life’s TV and special events coordinator. “I did not expect so many kids. But I should have known better. Everyone loves Elmo and Grover!”