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The Wiggles | The Wiggles are children's entertainers that have rewritten the book about how children can be entertained with song and dance. Greg (Yellow), Murray (Red), Jeff (Purple) and Anthony (Blue) and the characters they have created are now a part of the lives of so many children. |
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Oct 23, 2008
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The Wiggles
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Wolstein Center- CSU Convocation
Cleveland, OH |  |
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Thursday
Oct 23, 2008
3:00 PM |
The Wiggles
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Wolstein Center- CSU Convocation
Cleveland, OH | |
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Friday
Oct 24, 2008
6:30 PM |
The Wiggles
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Rogers Centre
Toronto, ON | |
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Friday
Oct 24, 2008
3:00 PM |
The Wiggles
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Rogers Centre
Toronto, ON | |
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Saturday
Oct 25, 2008
2:30 PM |
The Wiggles
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Rogers Centre
Toronto, ON | |
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Saturday
Oct 25, 2008
11:00 AM |
The Wiggles
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Rogers Centre
Toronto, ON | |
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Sunday
Oct 26, 2008
5:00 PM |
The Wiggles
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Scotiabank Place
Kanata, ON | |
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Tuesday
Oct 28, 2008
6:30 PM |
The Wiggles
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Kingston Regional Sports & Entertainment Centre
Kingston, ON | |
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Thursday
Oct 30, 2008
6:30 PM |
The Wiggles
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Verizon Wireless Arena-NH
Manchester, NH | |
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Thursday
Oct 30, 2008
3:00 PM |
The Wiggles
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Verizon Wireless Arena-NH
Manchester, NH | |
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Saturday
Nov 1, 2008
11:00 AM |
The Wiggles
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Chevrolet Theatre
Wallingford, CT | |
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Saturday
Nov 1, 2008
2:00 PM |
The Wiggles
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Chevrolet Theatre
Wallingford, CT | |
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Sunday
Nov 2, 2008
1:30 PM |
The Wiggles
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Times Union Center
Albany, NY | |
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Monday
Nov 3, 2008
6:30 PM |
The Wiggles
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HSBC Arena
Buffalo, NY | |
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Wednesday
Nov 5, 2008
3:00 PM |
The Wiggles
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Sovereign Bank Arena
Trenton, NJ | |
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Wednesday
Nov 5, 2008
6:30 PM |
The Wiggles
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Sovereign Bank Arena
Trenton, NJ | |
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Thursday
Nov 6, 2008
6:30 PM |
The Wiggles
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Hampton Coliseum
Hampton, VA | |
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Friday
Nov 7, 2008
6:30 PM |
The Wiggles
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Bryce Jordan Center
University Park, PA | |
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Saturday
Nov 8, 2008
1:30 PM |
The Wiggles
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DCU Center
Worcester, MA | |
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Saturday
Nov 8, 2008
5:00 PM |
The Wiggles
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DCU Center
Worcester, MA | |
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Sunday
Nov 9, 2008
1:30 PM |
The Wiggles
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Wachovia Arena
Wilkes Barre, PA | |
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Sunday
Nov 9, 2008
5:00 PM |
The Wiggles
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Wachovia Arena
Wilkes Barre, PA | |
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Tuesday
Nov 11, 2008
6:30 PM |
The Wiggles
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The Bank of Kentucky Center
Newport, KY | |
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Wednesday
Nov 12, 2008
6:30 PM |
The Wiggles
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Rupp Arena
Lexington, KY | |
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Sunday
Nov 16, 2008
1:30 PM |
The Wiggles
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Gwinnett Center
Duluth, GA | |
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Sunday
Nov 16, 2008
5:00 PM |
The Wiggles
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Gwinnett Center
Duluth, GA | |
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Thursday
Nov 20, 2008
3:00 PM |
The Wiggles
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Amway Arena
Orlando, FL | |
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Thursday
Nov 20, 2008
6:30 PM |
The Wiggles
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Amway Arena
Orlando, FL | |
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Friday
Nov 21, 2008
6:30 PM |
The Wiggles
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Leon County Civic Center
Tallahassee, FL | |
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Saturday
Nov 22, 2008
5:00 PM |
The Wiggles
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St. Pete Times Forum
Tampa, FL | |
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Saturday
Nov 22, 2008
1:30 PM |
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St. Pete Times Forum
Tampa, FL | |
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Sunday
Nov 23, 2008
1:30 PM |
The Wiggles
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American Airlines Arena - FL
Miami, FL | |
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Sunday
Nov 23, 2008
5:00 PM |
The Wiggles
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American Airlines Arena - FL
Miami, FL | |
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Sunday
Nov 23, 2008
1:30 PM |
The Wiggles
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American Airlines Center - TX
Dallas, TX | |
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The Wiggles is a children's musical group formed in Sydney, Australia, in 1991. It was founded by Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Greg Page, and Jeff Fatt. The group has achieved worldwide success with its children's albums, videos, television series and concert appearances. According to Business Review Weekly, The Wiggles were Australia's "richest entertainers" for the year 2005, earning more than AC/DC and Nicole Kidman combined. In 2006, it was reported that they earned AUS$50 million.
The Wiggles combine music and child development research in their videos, television programmes, and live shows. Field and Fatt were members of the Australian pub rock band The Cockroaches in the 1980s, and Cook was a member of several bands before meeting Field and Page at Macquarie University, where they were studying to become pre-school teachers. A school project led to the recording of their first album and tour in 1991. Their basic act expanded to include other characters (Captain Feathersword, Dorothy the Dinosaur, Henry the Octopus, and Wags the Dog) and a troupe of dancers.
By 2002, The Wiggles became the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's most successful pre-school property. The group also began to franchise The Wiggles' concepts to other countries, developed Wiggles sections in amusement parks in Australia and America, and won several awards from the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) and the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). In 2006, founding member Page was forced to retire from the group and was replaced by former dancer Sam Moran.
Anthony Field and Jeff Fatt had been members of the Cockroaches, a popular pub rock band that had scored a number of Top 40 hits in Australia during the 1980s. After the Cockroaches disbanded in 1988, Field enrolled at the Institute of Early Childhood Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney. One of only half a dozen men in a program with roughly 500 women, Field soon met Page and Cook, former musicians. Cook was the guitarist in a minor Sydney pop band, Bang Shang a Lang, while also working as a clerk at the Australian Taxation Office. The group first produced a music project for school and soon included early education concepts in their plans to become entertainers of children. Motivated to create high-quality children's music, they produced their first self-titled album in 1991.
Needing a keyboardist, Field asked his old band mate, Fatt, to help out. (Fatt's reply was "Sure, but how long will it take...?") The group received song writing help from John Field, Anthony's brother and former band mate, as they reworked a few of the old Cockroaches tunes into children's songs. For example, "Do the Monkey" was originally a Cockroaches song with different lyrics. Another Cockroaches song, "Get Ready to Wiggle", inspired the new band's name. In addition, the band received keyboards and songwriting assistance from fellow Macquarie student Phillip Wilcher, whose departure from the group shortly before they achieved international fame brought comparisons to Pete Best, the "fifth Beatle".
From the beginning of The Wiggles' inception, everything they did was rooted in child development research and from the premise that "a young child has a short attention span, is curious about a limited number of objects and activities, loves having a job to do and is thrilled by mastering basic movements". All their songs, based on pop music, were short and featured simple body movements and familiar activities. It was also the reason they stared continually into the camera in their videos and TV shows, and why their stage shows were full of audience participation.
Using his connections with the Cockroaches, Anthony Field arranged with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) to distribute the Wiggles album in Australia. On their manager's advice, they toured in unusual settings throughout Eastern Australia. For example, their public debut was at a pre-school in Randwick. Early in their career, they busked at places in Sydney such as Circular Quay, performing to crowds debarking from Manly Ferry. After their first compact disc (CD) was released, their first tour consisted of Westfield shopping centres around Sydney. They also performed throughout New South Wales at shows promoted by local playgroups or nursing mothers' associations with whom they split their proceeds. John Field and Mick Conway, who later became The Wiggles' general manager, also performed with them.
As Fatt reported, "it was very much a cottage industry." They were their own roadies and travelled in Fatt's van, towing a trailer with their borrowed equipment. Their basic act was later augmented with supporting characters—the "friendly pirate" Captain Feathersword (played by Paul Paddick since 1993) and the animal characters Dorothy the Dinosaur, Henry the Octopus, and Wags the Dog. These characters were initially performed by the members of the band. Field played Captain Feathersword and Wags; Cook played Dorothy, and Fatt played Henry.
Early on, they adopted colour-coded shirts: Page in yellow, Cook in red, Fatt in purple, and Field in blue. Field originally wore a green shirt but changed to avoid clashing with Dorothy the Dinosaur. The colours assisted their recognition by very young children, and they wear this "uniform" when appearing as The Wiggles in the media or in public.
Each Wiggle also developed a "schtick". Page's was performing magic tricks; Cook's was playing the guitar; Fatt's was falling asleep; Field's was eating. The schticks were based on actual behaviours of each member of the group. (As Moran said, "Jeff really does fall asleep.") These behaviours, turned into caricatures, served the same purpose as the uniforms in differentiating the characters and making them memorable to young children.
The Wiggles also made a decision to do not, as Cook has said, "just go down the route of what people think is kids' music". Three albums' worth of original children's music, drawing upon several kinds of genres of music and types of instruments, were written during marathon songwriting sessions for a month each summer. Their songs were based on simple concepts familiar to young children; simple movements were developed by choreographer Leeanne Ashley to accompany each song. One of these simple movements, their signature index finger-wagging move, was created by Cook after seeing professional bowlers do it on television, and it became Wiggles policy, when photographed with children, to adopt this move. The group insisted that touching children, no matter how innocently, was inappropriate. (As Paul Paddick has explained, "there is no doubting where their hands are". It also protected them from possible litigation.)
Early on, The Wiggles regularly invited children with special needs and their families to pre-concert "meet and greet" sessions. Since 1995, The Wiggles have visited and performed for patients at the Sydney Children's Hospital every Christmas morning. In addition, the group has always had a strict code of conduct based on zero tolerance of drug use, drinking, smoking, or bad language by any employee or crew member.
Through the rest of the 1990s, The Wiggles maintained a busy recording and touring schedule, releasing multiple albums and home videos, and performing to increasingly large audiences in Australia and New Zealand. Unable to get a television programme produced through the ABC because of "irreconcilable artistic differences", they filmed two self-produced television series in the late 90s. The band gained popularity in the United States beginning in 1998 by piggybacking on the success of the popular television programme Barney & Friends. Lyrick Studios, the producers of Barney, began distributing Wiggles videos in the U.S. and advertising them in Barney videos. (Lyrick Studios was later acquired by HIT Entertainment). The Wiggles also opened for Barney during U.S. tours.
Twentieth Century Fox produced a feature-length film The Wiggles Movie, which premiered in Australia in December 1997 and went on to become the fifth-highest grossing Australian film of 1998. By the late 90s, The Wiggles had grown so successful in America and in the UK that for a few years they travelled separately, in two separate planes and on two different buses, so that if disaster occurred, "at least half of them would survive and carry on." After it proved to be a logistical nightmare, they ended the practice, although by 2007, they travelled in two separate buses between cities.
Their strong connection with the U.S. was "forged in the shell-shocked weeks after the terrorist attacks on New York in 2001," when The Wiggles travelled to America to perform despite the stated risks. Paul Field reported that "New York has really embraced them. It was a kind of watershed." The decision earned them respect and loyalty in the U.S., and strong U.S. sales of The Wiggles videos eventually caught the attention of the Disney Channel. In January 2002, that channel began showing a Wiggles video clip between programmes of its morning Playhouse Disney block. By June of that year, the popularity of these interstitials prompted the Disney Channel to add The Wiggles television series to the Playhouse Disney programme schedule, showing full episodes multiple times per day. By 2002, The Wiggles began to film their television series exclusively with ABC and became "the most successful property that the ABC has represented in the pre-school genre."
The Wiggles have performed 12 sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden in 2003, and have been in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the first time in 2001. As of 2005, worldwide sales of their DVDs and videos exceeded 17 million, and they had performed in front of more than a million people across the globe.
The Wiggles' success in music and television has led to extensive merchandising of Wiggles-branded books, toys, clothing, and other products for children. Since 2003, their toys were manufactured and sold by the Toronto-based toy company Spin Master. Beginning in 2003, the group began franchising its concept to other countries, branching into Taiwan and Latin American markets with versions of Mandarin- and Spanish-speaking Wiggles.
In September 2005, Australia's largest theme park, Dreamworld in Queensland, opened a "Wiggles World" section. Driven by the Dreamworld success, Six Flags opened its first "Wiggles World" section in April 2007 and by the end of the year had made plans to open 20 more at its parks across the U.S. The sections emphasize family involvement; they offer joint rides, for example, as opposed to rides in parks where "parents might stick their kid on a ride and sit back and watch."
By 2007, The Wiggles employed 20 full-time workers in offices in Sydney and Dallas, Texas, as well as another 30 employees on their tours. They became formally consolidated in 2005. The original four members serve as the group's only directors; Paul Field has been general manager of operations since the group was formed. Mike Conway has been general manager since 2001. At the end of 2007, The Wiggles donated their complete back catalogue of 27 master tapes to Australia's National Film and Sound Archive.
In December 2005, lead singer and founding member Greg Page, at age 33, underwent a double hernia operation. He withdrew from The Wiggles' U.S. tour in June 2006 after suffering fainting spells, lethargy, nausea, and loss of balance. He returned to Australia, where doctors diagnosed his condition as orthostatic intolerance, a chronic but not life-threatening condition.
In November 30, 2006, the Wiggles announced Page's retirement from the group "to focus on managing his health." Page was replaced by Sam Moran, who had served as an understudy for The Wiggles for five years and had already stood in for Page on 150 shows. Page officially handed over his yellow skivvy (shirt) to Moran in a video posted on the Wiggles' official website.
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