RETURNING TO SYDNEY, CANBERRA AND NEWCASTLE
JANUARY 2025
Wackadoo! Tickets for hit theatre show Bluey’s Big Play The Stage Showare on sale now. The live show is returning to New South Wales and Canberra in January 2025, following a global tour across Australia, UK, Ireland, Singapore and North America, where audiences young and old fell in love all over again with our favourite family of Blue Heelers.
Bluey’s Big Play, a theatrical adaptation of the BAFTA & Emmy® award-winning children’s television series produced by Ludo Studio, is coming back to Australia in 2025 and will open at the Theatre Royal, Sydney on Thursday 2 January before moving onto Canberra and Newcastle.
★★★★★ “A Glorious Celebration of everything you love about the show” – The Guardian
“Bluey’s Big Play may be her first theatrical experiment, but I doubt it will be the last” – The Australian Review
“There’s no better show to inspire a lifelong love of the stage in your littlies” – Courier Mail, Brisbane
Audiences of all ages will get to see Bluey, Bingo, Bandit and Chilli, as they’ve never seen them before, as the Heeler family embark on this unique live show featuring brilliantly created puppets and iconic sets.
Based on an original new story written by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, the theatrical adaptation contains music by Bluey composer, Joff Bush. For more information and to purchase tickets visit blueylive.com.
“We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Bluey’s Big Play back to Australia. The enthusiastic reception and remarkable success this show has received internationally has been nothing short of extraordinary, and we can’t wait for fans in Sydney, Newcastle and Canberra to experience the magic and joy of Bluey’s Big Play once again on home turf,” said Kate O’Connor, Director of Brands and Licensing BBC Studios ANZ.
Bluey’s Big Play The Stage Show is directed by Rosemary Myers of Windmill Theatre Company, and is presented by BBC Studios and Andrew Kay in association with Windmill Theatre Co.
“Following the Australian premiere season of Bluey’s Big Play, the show has visited venues across the world delighting a huge global audience of Bluey fans. It’s great to bring the show back to Australia with newly added audience participation, making it an even more thrilling experience to be with the Heeler family in real life,” said director Rosemary Myers, Director of Bluey’s Big Play.
“After numerous successful tours internationally including the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland and Singapore, the show has been seen by close to 2 million patrons. We are very proud to bring Bluey’s Big Play back home,” said Andrew Kay, Producer, Bluey’s Big Play.
The stage show enjoyed success in Australia, where it premiered in Bluey’s hometown of Brisbane and went on to perform 447 times across 65 venues, including the Sydney Opera House. Bluey’s Big Play The Stage Show has since travelled across the world. It has toured across the United States and Canada where it has been performed over 600 times in venues such as the Hulu Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York, the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles and the iconic Kennedy Centre Eisenhower Theatre in Washington. It went on to play across the UK and Ireland where it premiered at the iconic Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London and was also nominated for a prestigious 2024 Olivier Award in the Best Family Show category earlier this year. In June 2024, Bluey’s Big Play made its premiere in Asia, opening in Singapore at the Sands Theatre, Marina Bay Sands. It will premiere in Europe across Spain from 21 September 2024 and Paris from 21 December 2024 as well as in the Middle East at the Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi from 30 August 2024.
Since bursting on to TV screens in Australia in 2018, Bluey has enjoyed a plethora of critical success at home and abroad, most recently winning Best Children’s Program at the 2024 TV WEEK Logie Awards. Bluey has also won a 2022 BAFTA Children & Young People Award in the International category and picked up its consecutive fifth AACTA Best Children’s Programme award to add to an International Emmy. Additionally, it has won APRA screen music awards, ARIA music awards, Australian Directors Guild Award and more.
Last year, Bluey was the #1 series for preschoolers and kids and #2 most-streamed series across all audiences in the U.S. with 43.9 billion minutes viewed*. In Australia, Bluey airs on ABC where it is #1 children’s show and is also rated #1 show on CBeebies and Disney+ in the UK. *Source: Nielsen
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For further information about Bluey’s Big Play The Stage Show please contact:
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Bluey’s Big Play The Stage Show
Tickets on sale now
TOUR DETAILS
SYDNEY:
From Thursday 2 January – Saturday 18 January 2025 (excluding Sundays)
Theatre Royal Sydney
108 King Street, Sydney
Tickets via Theatre Royal
CANBERRA:
From Tuesday 21 January – Saturday 25 January 2025
Canberra Theatre Centre
Civic Square, London Circuit
Tickets via Canberra Theatre
NEWCASTLE:
From Wednesday 29 January – Sunday 2 February
Civic Theatre Newcastle
375 Hunter Street, Newcastle
Tickets via Civic Theatre Newcastle
NOTES TO EDITORS
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About Bluey
Bluey is produced by BAFTA & Multi Emmy® Award-winning Ludo Studio for ABC KIDS (Australia) and co-commissioned by ABC Children’s and BBC Studios Kids & Family. Financed in association with Screen Australia, Bluey is proudly 100% created, written, animated, and post produced in Brisbane Queensland, Australia, with funding from the Queensland Government through Screen Queensland and the Australian Government.
About Ludo Studio
Ludo Studio is a BAFTA, multi-Emmy®, Logie and Peabody award-winning Australian studio and one of TIME’s Most Influential Companies of 2024, that creates and produces original scripted drama, animation and digital stories that are authored by incredible local talent, distributed globally and loved by audiences everywhere. ludostudio.com.au
About BBC Studios Kids & Family
BBC Studios Kids & Family is an integral part of the BBC Studios content powerhouse – a commercial subsidiary of the BBC Group which produces, invests and distributes content globally.
With specialist knowledge of what makes young audiences tick, BBC Studios Kids & Family identifies, nurtures and invests in great projects and turns them into global hits, seamlessly taking content from conception, development and production to franchise management and distribution.
The division’s multi-genre portfolio includes some of the most exciting and successful franchises in the world with BAFTA and International Emmy winning craft and storytelling, including Bluey, Hey Duggee, Hey Duggee’s Squirrel Club, Deadly Mission Shark, Andy’s Amazing Adventures, Supertato, and Popularity Papers.
The division’s ever-growing slate also includes Rafi the Wishing Wizard, Stan Can, Peter & The Wolf, and Pickle Storm, as well as established UK hits and iconic shows such as Blue Peter, The Dumping Ground, JoJo & Gran Gran, The Beaker Girls, Lagging and CBeebies: Shakespeare at the Globe.
Its productions air on channels and leading content platforms around the world including CBeebies, CBBC, Disney, ABC Australia, Tencent China and Nickelodeon.
About BBC Studios Brands & Licensing
BBC Studios Brands & Licensing is the driving force behind innovative brand extensions that excite audiences across the world. We excel at amplifying and extending BBC Studios IP in creative ways that develop and deepen fan engagement across our iconic brands including: Doctor Who, Bluey, Strictly Come Dancing / Dancing With The Stars, Top Gear and BBC Earth.
Our extensive portfolio spans Consumer Products and Licensing (CP&L), including: live entertainment and attractions such as Bluey’s Big Play, Doctor Who’s World of Wonder and the Planet Earth III Live in Concert tour; branded merchandise including fashion, toys and homeware licensed to best-in-class partners; publishing that spans magazines, books, audio books and music releases; plus gaming and interactive experiences. Supported by award-winning teams, we focus on finding visionary opportunities to enhance global brand impact, digital growth and the business models of the future.
We also operate BBC Studios Social, a digital powerhouse commissioning, curating and commercializing the digital footprint of our much-loved brands, connecting global audiences to safe, high-quality content with advertising, sponsorship, and branded content with over 6.5 billion social video views in 2023. Recognized for its excellence, BBC Studios was named the Inaugural European Publisher of the Year at the Lovies 2023.
About HVK Productions
HVK Productions is part of the Andrew Kay group of companies, an international theatre Producer and concert Promoter based in Melbourne, Australia. Andrew Kay, AM has presented, produced and co-produced countless award-winning theatrical, musical and live stage events. Andrew has been one of Australia’s leading producers and presenters of children’s theatre including Hi-5, Bananas in Pyjamas, Cat in The Hat, Giggle and Hoot, Hairy Maclary, The Fairies, LazyTown, ABC Christmas Spectaculars, Horrible Histories – Awful Egyptians and Barmy Britain, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, the very popular Dan TDM Live and multiple tours of Operation Ouch Live and Steve Backshall’s Deadly 60 Live. HVK Productions is the co-producer with BBCS of Bluey’s Big Play across North America, United Kingdom, Singapore and soon throughout Europe and the Middle East.
Other notable artists presented include three-time Grammy winners the Soweto Gospel Choir, Kathleen Battle, Nigel Kennedy, Kevin McCloud, Yehudi Menuin, David Helfgott, Maggie Smith, Ian McKellen, Patricia Routlege, Wynton Marsalis and Louis Theroux.
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About Windmill Theatre Company
Based in Adelaide, South Australia, Windmill Theatre Company has a global reputation as a leading producer of theater for children, teenagers and families. Each year the company performs in its hometown, and tours across Australia and around the world. Over the last 17 years, Windmill has presented 63 productions including 36 brand new Australian works, performing to young audiences in 287 cities and towns across 30 countries.
windmill.org.au
