PictureLux on the red carpet report: Opening night at the Pee Wee Herman Show

Live onstage in Hollywood, “The Pee-wee Herman Show,” starring Paul Reubens, will have a limited engagement at Club Nokia at L.A. Live. That's where the red carpet was rolled out to commemorate the opening night. Among the various guests attending the premiere were Marisa Tomei, Patricia Arquette, Ellen Page, Drew Carey, Debi Mazar, David Arquette and an assortment of Celebrity fans and well wishers.

“It’s time,” said Reubens. “My Pee-wee suit and red bow tie are at the ready - and this is proof that white shoes are cool past Labor Day.”

To the generation that grew up with his groundbreaking Saturday morning television show, Pee-wee Herman is an icon. Revered by media theorists and studied in colleges, his enormous cultural influence continues to reverberate in fashion, film and television.

When asked to comment, Herman himself simply said, “I know you are, but what am I?!”

This new version of “The Pee-wee Herman Show,” still about a wish, includes Miss Yvonne, Mailman Mike, Cowboy Curtis and Jambi the Genie, as well as Pee-wee’s talking chair, Chairry, Pterri the pterodactyl, robot Conky, Magic Screen, Randy, and many more. The show opens tonight and runs through February 7, 2010. (Photo © 2010 Joe Martinez/PictureLux)

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