High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Johnny and the Sprites is a musical television show aimed for preschoolers that airs every weekend on the "Playhouse Disney" program of The Disney Channel. The show was created for, is produced by, and stars John Tartaglia (of Avenue Q fame). The show`s theme song was written by Stephen Schwartz. Each episode of the show features a musical number, many of which are written by various notable Broadway composers such as Gary Adler, Bobby Lopez, Laurence O`Keefe, Michael Patrick Walker, and others. The Sprites and all of the other creatures that inhabit Johnny`s world were designed by Michael Schupbach. The set was designed by Laura Brock.