The Wiggles' Big Ballet Day! is the fifty-ninth Wiggles video special released on March 27, 2019, in collaboration with The Australian Ballet. The special was released in the US on August 6th, 2019.
Overview[]
The Wiggles are off to the ballet in this new release, The Wiggles' Big Ballet Day! Joining with dancers from The Australian Ballet, The Wiggles warm up, demi-plie and jete in joy! We hope this wiggly ballet special inspires dress ups, listening to ballet music and expressing yourself through their own form of ballet.
Songs[]
- Hello, We're The Wiggles
- The Alphabet Ballet
- The Garden Ballet
- Dance with Emma Ballerina (from The Emma! & Lachy! Show)
- Shirley Shawn the Unicorn
- Brisé in the Breeze
- The Magpie Song
- The Music of the Ballet Orchestra
- Captain Byng with a Y
- The Pirouette
- Oh, What Shall We Wear to the Ballet Today?
- Stop at the Lights
- Let's Put the Pop in the Popcorn!
- The Toilet Song
- Stand Up, Clap, Sit Down
- I Am A Dancer
- My Ballet Goat
- Dorothy Pas De Deux
- The Fairy King and Queen from Narrabeen
- La Paloma
- Picking All the Flowers
- Wags is Dancing in the Moonlight
- Hello to the Resting Cows
- Lachy's Lullaby
- Goodbye from the Ballet Today
CD Song[]
Plot[]
More coming soon!
TV Airdates[]
- April 11, 2019 (Treehouse TV)[citation needed]
Trivia[]
- This is the first appearance of Shirley Shawn the Unicorn, as well as their (her at the time) self-titled song.
- This is the first time since Yummy Yummy in 1998 where the song "I Am A Dancer" had The Wiggles in it.
- This is The Wiggles' third collaboration video, the first was Yummy Yummy with Paul Hester, and the second was Wiggly Safari with Steve Irwin.
- This is the first Wiggles video to use the current ABC DVD Logo.
- Anthony's Beatle outfit from You Make Me Feel Like Dancing ("The Shimmie Shake!") appears in Dance with Emma Ballerina.
- Anthony introduced Shirley Shawn in a video on The Wiggles' Facebook and Instagram, where he called them a "scrumptious Wiggly friend".
- This is the last Wiggles DVD to be filmed on location before the COVID-19 pandemic.
- This is the first video where Anthony is seen with a moustache for most of it. The only times in the video Anthony is not seen with a moustache include the introductions for Dance with Emma Ballerina, Shirley Shawn the Unicorn and Captain Byng with a Y.
- This is the first Wiggles video where Daniel Attard created the artwork.
- This is the only time Shirley Shawn uses she/her pronouns.
- This is Leanne Halloran's first studio video after 24 years since It's A Wiggly, Wiggly World.
Goofs[]
- John Field and Dominic Lindsay's names are listed in the song credits of "Hello, We're The Wiggles".
- Thérése Leuver's name is missing on the back cover on the US DVD.
- On the US DVD, the Kino Lorber logo plays before the warning screen rather than after.