THROUGHOUT NORTH AMERICA BEGINNING JULY 3rd
The World’s Premiere Children’s Entertainers will Celebrate Their 20th Birthday In The United States And Canada This Summer
A Portion Of All Ticket Sales Will Be Donated To Reach Out And Read
(New York, NY) – The Fab Four from down under are back with this year’s most anticipated family event. It’s time for a party…The Wiggles Big Birthday party! Come along and “Sound Your Funky Horn,” “Clap Your Hands With Dorothy,” and do the “Hot Potato.” Join The Wiggles, Captain Feathersword, Dorothy the Dinosaur, Henry the Octopus, Wags the Dog and all the Wiggly Dancers as they celebrate their Big Birthday in your hometown!
The tour will visit 31 cities across North America including: Dallas, TX; Long Island, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA; Toronto, ON; Vancouver, BC and Edmonton, AB. The Wiggles are also proud to announce that they will visit Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, FL on July 3rd for a special performance following The Tampa Bay Rays vs. The St. Louis Cardinals game!
Come and wiggle in the aisles for the Big Birthday Tour. The Wiggles are excited to bring their highly interactive, fun and educational message throughout North America. Audience participation features include:
• Start the fun at home by creating a giant wiggly birthday card or sign!
• Having fun with your favorite wiggly pal as they sing and dance through the audience.
• Dress up as your favorite character.
• Yelling “Wake up, Jeff!” whenever the loveable Purple Wiggle falls asleep onstage.
Children can have even more wiggly fun while they wait for the Big Birthday celebration online with www.WiggleTime.com, The Wiggles’ very own virtual world created specifically for preschoolers and their parents. Parents can monitor their child’s progress and have access to premium promotional offers, contests, merchandise discounts and presale Wiggles tickets! You can also follow the gang on Twitter via Twitter.com/ItsWiggleTime or become a fan of the group’s official Facebook page Facebook.com/TheWiggles.
The Wiggles are proud to announce that the U.S. school readiness initiative Reach Out and Read will be the official charity partner of their 2011 American tour. Reach Out and Read prepares America’s youngest children to succeed in school by partnering with doctors to “prescribe” books and encourage families to read together. Together, Reach Out and Read and The Wiggles will work to raise awareness about the importance of parental involvement and reading aloud to young children. This year, Reach Out and Read will serve 4 million children and families nationwide through 4,600 hospitals, clinics, and medical practices. Parents who participate in the research-proven program read to their children more often, and their children enter kindergarten with larger vocabularies and a six-month developmental edge. A portion of the proceeds from all ticket sales will be used to support Reach Out and Read Programs across the United States.
Complete Tour Schedule:
07/03 St. Petersburg, FL Tropicana Field
07/08 Dallas, TX The Allen Event Center
07/09 Houston, TX Verizon Wireless Theater
07/10 New Orleans, LA Mahalia Jackson Theatre for the Performing Arts
07/12 Atlanta, GA Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center
07/13 Charlotte, NC Time Warner Cable Arena
07/14 Harrisburg, PA Hershey Theatre
07/15 Long Island, NY Theatre At Westbury
07/16 Philadelphia, PA Tower Theatre
07/17 East Rutherford, NJ IZOD Center
07/19 Hartford, CT Chevrolet Theatre
07/20 Cape Cod Cape Cod Melody Tent
07/21 Boston, MA South Shore Music Circus
07/23 & 07/24 Toronto, ON Ricoh Coliseum
07/26 Ottawa, ON Scotia Bank Place
07/27 Oshawa, ON General Motors Centre
07/28 Windsor, ON WFCU Centre
07/29 Detroit, MI Palace of Auburn Hills
07/30 Chicago, IL Rosemont Theatre
07/31 Wisconsin Dells, WI Crystal Grand Music Theatre
08/02 Minneapolis, MN The State Theatre
08/03 Grand Fork, ND Ralph Engelstad Arena
08/04 Winnipeg, MB MTS Centre
08/05 Saskatoon, SK Credit Union Centre
08/06 Calgary, AB Calgary Stampede Corral
08/07 Edmonton, AB Edmonton Expo Centre
08/09 Vancouver, BC Queen Elizabeth Theatre
08/10 Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre
8/12 Oakland-San Francisco Paramount Theatre
8/13 San Jose, CA San Jose Civic Auditorium
8/14 Los Angeles Gibson Amphitheatre
*** For complete ticket pricing and on-sale dates please visit www.thewiggles.com
About The Wiggles
The Wiggles, the world’s #1 preschool entertainers, performed over 350 shows to more than 1.5 million fans since 2005 in the United States alone. The Wiggles perform over 200 shows annually across four continents. The Wiggles are seen on TV in over 120 countries worldwide. Fans can catch The Wiggles on television exclusively in the U.S. on 24-hour preschool network Sprout as hosts of Sprout’s Wiggly Waffle, which airs every weekday morning from 6:00 – 9:00 a.m. ET. The Wiggles have sold more than 23 million DVDS and videos, 7 million CDs and 8 million books in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. You can also follow the gang on Twitter via www.Twitter.com/ItsWiggleTime or become a fan of their official Facebook page www.Facebook.com/TheWiggles.
About Reach Out and Read
Reach Out and Read is an evidence-based, national nonprofit organization that prepares America’s youngest children to succeed in school by partnering with doctors to prescribe books and encourage families to read together. Reach Out and Read currently serves one-third of the most impoverished children in the U.S. The Reach Out and Read model is endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the program has one of the strongest records of research support of any primary care intervention. This year, Reach Out and Read’s 27,000 volunteer doctors and nurse practitioners will provide 6.4 million new books to 3.9 million children at 4,654 healthcare locations in all 50 states. For further information, please visit Reach Out and Read’s website at www.reachoutandread.org or become a fan at facebook.com/reachoutandread.