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Not to be confused with Wiggledancing! Live In Concert.

Wiggledancing! Live In The U.S.A. is the Twenty-fourth Wiggles video special, released exclusively in North America on August 15th, 2006. The video showcases the November 4th, 2005 Wallingford, Connecticut concert from the Sailing Around the World tour and was one of Greg's last taped concert appearances before he left the group.

It is the fourth live concert special after LIVE Hot Potatoes!.

Overview[]

Each year, The Wiggles perform to sold-out crowds on their USA tours, with shows in Los Angeles, New York and cities in between! Now The Wiggles bring the magic of their live show to your living room with Wiggledancing, filmed in High Definition at Connecticut's Chevrolet Theater.

Songs[]

  1. Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car
  2. Look Both Ways
  3. Rock-A-Bye Your Bear
  4. Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles!
  5. Move Your Arms Like Henry
  6. Can You (Point Your Fingers And Do The Twist?)
  7. Music Box Dancer
  8. Hoop Dee Doo
  9. The Monkey Dance
  10. Brown Girl In The Ring
  11. Fruit Salad
  12. Sailing Around The World
  13. Wiggle Bay
  14. Swim Like A Fish
  15. Mop Mop
  16. Dancing In The Sand
  17. Agapame Tin Athena (We Love Athens)
  18. Bow Wow Wow
  19. Play Your Guitar With Murray
  20. Sydney Barcarolle
  21. Dorothy (Would You Like To Dance?)
  22. Captain Feathersword Fell Asleep on His Pirate Ship
  23. Hot Potato
  24. Wiggly Go-Go Medley
  25. Sailing Around The World (Chorus Reprise)
  26. Let's Have A Party (Instrumental)

Plot[]

The opening credits list the Wiggles by name, and then the mascots and the dancers.

The Wiggles are in the Big Red Car outside the arena. Greg, Murray, and Anthony introduce themselves, but notice Jeff is asleep. Greg tells everybody to wake him up. 1, 2, 3. Wake up, Jeff! After waking him up, they drive into the backstage area of the arena.

The Wiggles greet the audience. Greg says that they enjoy riding in the Big Red Car, but they enjoy walking because you never know what you might find.

The dancers leave. Anthony tells everyone that today all about having a good time. If they feel like singing, they can sing as loud as they like. If they feel like dancing, they can dance as fast as they like. He then tells the audience to keep an eye on Jeff and tell them if he falls asleep because they need him for the show. Jeff says "Beauty, Mate!"

Jeff falls asleep. Greg asks everyone to wake him up. 1, 2, 3. Wake up, Jeff! Jeff says now that he's awake, he has a question that the audience can answer as loud as they like. After jumping up and down two times saying "Would you like to meet?" he says "Would you like to meet Dorothy the Dinosaur?" The audience yells "YES!" Greg asks the same questions in the same way but he asks if they want to meet Wags the Dog. Murray asks if they want to meet Captain Feathersword. When it's Anthony's turn he's so excited he leaves the stage, does a bunch of flips and cartwheels onto the stage and back, and returns. He asks if they want to meet Henry the Octopus. The Wiggles explain how to do the Lights, Camera, Action dance.

Henry leaves. Jeff introduces the next song.

Murray invites everyone to dance the ballet with Dorothy and friends.

Jeff comes out and says how great the dancers were fantastic, but then he falls asleep! The Wiggles plan on waking Jeff up but want him to do a bunch of stunts when he does. Jeff starts chuckling, and The Wiggles say he's sleep-laughing. Greg tells everybody to wake him up again. 1, 2, 3. Wake up, Jeff! Jeff jumps around saying Hoop-dee-doo! and asks the audience if they want to dance with him. Well, pokey-pokey-pokey, let's dance. And Jeff runs to the top balcony of the audience.

After the song, Anthony notes that Jeff has fallen asleep in the audience. Murray tells everybody to wake him up again. 1, 2, 3. Wake up, Jeff! After he gets woken up, he does the monkey dance.

Greg announces the next song is a folk song all the way from the Caribbean. One of the Wiggly Dancers, Lucy, is dressed in brown clothes and when she comes through the Wiggly door, they should wave to her because she looks fantastic. As the music starts, Lucy enters the stage.

Greg remarks how all the singing and dancing is making him hungry. It's time to sing about their favourite food; healthy and yummy yummy.

Murray introduces Captain Feathersword. Everyone's waving to the captain. Anthony asks Captain to take a bow but Captain loses his hat. As Anthony gives the hat to Captain, he tosses his sword, and this exchange goes on several times. Anthony tells Captain to take three steps back and tosses the sword to Captain but it lands on his head. Captain loses his hat once more. Greg brings Captain a hat with a bunch of flags. Anthony tells everyone to put on their sailor hats and cheer for their favourite flag in the next song.

Murray introduces the next song and Dorothy arrives while dancing the hula.

Anthony teaches everyone how to get ready to swim like a fish and look out for Ben-Fish!

The dancers set up two trampolines and a large mat for the next song.

  • Song #15: Mop Mop - the dancers start doing flips and jump from the mini-tramps onto the mat. Captain wants to try a flip but he flops twice. Then he gets it right on the third try.

Jeff talks about running up and rolling down the sandhills and dancing in the sand. He runs up the stage, but while running back, falls over.

Greg introduces the next dance which is from Greece and teaches everyone to say "Opa" when Captain holds up a sign.

Murray introduces the next song with Wags the Dog.

Murray points out that some people have brought bones of Wags. He tells everyone that the Wiggly Dancers will collect them. It's time for Music with Murray. Murray has everyone play air guitar.

  • Song #19: Play Your Guitar With Murray - Anthony tries to put up the Murray balloon but it keeps falling on him until the very end of the song.

Professor Singalottasonga joins the Wiggles and dancers for a hometown favourite as everyone sways back and forth.

Murray introduces Dorothy the Dinosaur. Everyone's waving to Dorothy. Anthony asks Dorothy that she loves roses. He also tries to read some of the signs and roses from the audience. One of the kids named Laila presents a bouquet to Dorothy and she thanks her.

Murray reintroduces Captain Feathersword and his favourite song, Quack Quack. Anthony pushes some of Captain's magic buttons to sing Quack Quack in different ways. At the end of the segment, confetti blows into the audience out of Captain's Feathersword.

Murray introduces the next song.

  • Song #23: Hot Potato - Dorothy, Wags, and Henry come out to dance to this one.

Anthony reads a bunch of the signs from the audience and thanks to everyone for coming. They want everyone to stand up and dance with the kids to the big finale.

Wiggly Medley consists of the following songs:

  1. Can You (Point Your Fingers And Do The Twist?)
  2. Here Come The Chicken
  3. Hot Potato
  4. Dancing In The Sand
  5. Move Your Arms Like Henry
  6. Bow Wow Wow
  7. D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favourite Dinosaur)
  8. The Captain's Wavy Walk
  9. Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles!

After the Medley, a reprise of the final chorus of Sailing Around The World is played with the US and Australian flags.

It's time to wave goodbye, to the mascots, the dancers, and The Wiggles! The closing credits features clips from the show with the instrumental of Wags the Dog playing over them.

Trivia[]

  • The video was originally planned to be released in Australia in March 2007, as seen on the Racing to the Rainbow Show Programme and the Happy 15th Birthday! DVD. But it was cancelled and replaced with Wiggledancing! Live In Concert.
    • Because of this, the DVD was released in Canada under the name of "Wiggledancing! Live In Concert" (not to be confused with the video). The menus kept the "Live In The USA" subtitle, while the video itself never features a subtitle anyway. The Warner Home Video re-release in Canada kept the "Live in the USA" subtitle.
  • Alex Keller makes a cameo in Look Both Ways.
  • This is the first live video (and first Wiggles video in general) to be filmed in High Definition. In addition, it's also the first video to run at 60 frames per second.
  • Caterina only appears in Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car, despite her name being listed in The Wiggly Dancers' credits. That's why only Lyn Stuckey appears as the main Wiggly Dancer.
  • This was the last concert video in with Greg before his retirement. The last concert video with Greg (and Murray and Jeff for that matter) is Celebration!.
  • This concert features many songs from Wiggle Bay and Sailing Around the World (which the tour was named after) that had never been performed in concert before or since.
  • If you look closely, you can see that the concert footage in this video was the same footage shown on the jumbotron.
  • In Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car, Murray plays Anthony's blue acoustic guitar instead of his usual red guitar.
  • In a scene featuring Dorothy, Zoe Velez does the voice-over.
  • This is the third video to be exclusive to North America, the first was Wiggly Play Time which was a compilation of 3 episodes of TV Series 2 and the second was Lights, Camera, Action! which was a compilation of 4 episodes (including two from TV Series 2 and two from TV Series 3 (11-minute versions)).
  • This is the last video to have the 2001-2006 HIT Entertainment logo.
  • This is also the last video in North America to have the trailers of Barney, Bob the Builder, and Thomas & Friends.
  • This is the first and only video to have both the HIT Entertainment warning screen and The Wiggles’ Copyright Screen stretched to fit the anamorphic 16:9 widescreen format.
  • This is the last DVD to have the feature bonus Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles! episode and the only one to feature a complete 22-minute version.
  • Digital platforms such as Amazon and iTunes seemingly had this video available at the time Warner Home Video and later NCircle Entertainment had distribution rights in the United States and Canada, but in fact, it was the Australian video Wiggledancing! Live In Concert using this video's title and artwork. Exactly why this was the case is unknown, but presumably, Warner had the two videos confused when they first made it available.
  • This video is yet to be uploaded on YouTube as part of Classic Wiggles.
  • The DVD files was created on June 23, 2006, a little more than a month before its release.
  • The DVD was originally called Dancing Fun! according to the file name of the DVD.
  • Promotional images show that the DVD was intended to use a yellow case, though most copies come in red cases, some copies did come in a yellow case though.
  • Henry the Octopus is voiced by Paul Paddick in this concert.

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