Fresh off the back of their sell-out six week North American and Canadian tours, the world’s all-time favourite children’s entertainment group The Wiggles will return to Australia’s arenas and entertainment centres this December to perform their spectacular new live show, THE WIGGLES’ READY, STEADY, WIGGLE TOUR.
The show will wiggle its way through Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart and Canberra, plus regional centres including Newcastle, Wollongong and Launceston. Melbourne fans are in for an extra treat – The Wiggles will also be accompanied on stage by the incredible Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, further enhancing the wiggly experience through the wonders of a live, 60-piece orchestra.
Tickets will be on sale from Friday September 6 through Ticketek.*
2013 is indeed a new chapter in The Wiggles’ success story. Blue Wiggle Anthony enthuses, “We have a new energy that’s quite contagious! It’s been such an exciting year so far and we’re playing to a new generation of Wiggle fans. And we’re also thrilled to be able to share with Australian audiences our first new TV series in over six years, which will debut this September on ABC TV.”
After a hugely successful Canadian launch, this new TV show that shares the same name as the concerts, Ready Steady Wiggle, will bring more of the toe-tapping, laughter-inducing Wiggle-tastic excitement into the homes of families all over Australia.
Children will be kept dancing, singing and laughing during this colourful concert and TV series with Yellow (and first-ever female) Wiggle Emma, Red Wiggle Simon, Purple Wiggle Lachy and the last remaining original(and Blue) Wiggle Anthony. Fans will also have the opportunity to see all of their wiggly friends, Dorothy the Dinosaur, Wags the Dog, Henry the Octopus and Captain Feathersword and bop along to Hot Potato, Rock A Bye Your Bear and all their other cherished favourites as well as exciting new hits like Do the Propeller.
2013 has already seen serious success for The Wiggles in their new line up, from number one chart hits on iTunes, to packed out appearances and live shows around the world, to the emergence at shows of “the mini-Emma army” – girls dressed up just like their new role-model Emma. Even USA’s TIME and PEOPLE magazines have reported on the arrival of the first female Wiggle.
When The Wiggles recently travelled to the USA to launch the new show, they were asked to perform at the New York Mets baseball game, and were covered by national press including USA Today and Fox and Friends. And US entertainment TV’s OMG! Insider says it all;
“Yes – It’s the hottest celebrity ticket of the summer. Not Justin or Kanye… It’s The Wiggles!”
And in exciting news for fans of the original cast, former Red Wiggle Murray Cook has begun a new role as The Wiggles’ Head of Touring for Australia and NZ, with other original Wiggles Jeff Fat and Greg Page still involved with writing songs and making cameo appearances in the live shows and videos.
It’ll be a wiggly end to the year – it’s the perfect time for Australian audiences to be engaged and entertained, and to once again see what all the wiggly fuss is about!
About The Wiggles
After more than 21 years together, 7 million albums, 23 million DVDs and 8 million books sold, The Wiggles have performed to more than a million fans across the globe. And to put that into perspective, in the past 42 years, The Rolling Stones have done 987 shows. In 21 years – half that time – The Wiggles have performed in excess of 6000 shows!
Late last year the original all-male Wiggles line-up stepped aside to allow a new cast to take over their kid-errific work. Almost one year on and the world has embraced the new group with open arms and dancing feet.
Since releasing their self-titled album in 1991 the group has wiggled its way to worldwide fame. More than 50 CD and DVD releases later, they have earned 17 x gold, 12 x platinum, 3 x double-platinum, 10 x multi-platinum awards for their music and DVD sales and winning 11 x ARIA Awards for Best Children’s Album (making ARIA history as the most awarded ARIA winner in the one category.)
The Wiggles’ current CD ‘Pumpkin Face’ is out now. ‘Pumpkin Face’ DVD out September 4.
www.thewiggles.com.au
This article was gathered automatically by our news bot. We help YouTubers by driving traffic to them for free. The featured image in this article is the thumbnail of the embedded video.
