Greatest Hits In The Round (partially lost Acer Arena performance of The Wiggles; 2010)

Poster for the Greatest Hits In The Round tour

Status: Partially Lost

The Wiggles is a popular children's group that formed in 1991 in Sydney, Australia. They are known for their hits Hot Potato, Get Ready To Wiggle, Fruit Salad and many others. Between 1991 and 1998, they mostly released albums and videos and toured heavily and would gain popularity in Australia. By the turn of the century, the group gained globe popularity and their albums, videos, television shows and tours would become hugely successful. On March 4, 2010, they released the compilation video "Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles" that featured the group's most famous songs up until that point. To promote the video and it's album that was released a year earlier, the group commenced on a Greatest Hits tour after they were done with the Wiggly Circus tour that would following after the video's release.

Background

The tour began on November 27th, 2010 at the Burswood Dome in Perth, Australia and would conclude at the Acer Arena in Sydney, Australia on December 20th, 2010. The tour would be notable for having past songs being performed live for the first time like the cover of The Seekers' Morningtown Ride and Fly Through The Sky. Five Little Joeys makes it's live return on this tour as well, having been last performed in 1997 as part of the Wake Up Jeff! Tour and the stage from the group's Big, Big Show In The Round tour from 2009 would be reused for this tour with a few differences. Future red wiggle Simon Pryce would return as his character Ringo The Ringmaster for the tour as well.

Availability

The December 19th show at the Acer Arena in Sydney would be recorded and most of the songs performed at the concert would appear on the 2011 video and album "The Wiggles' Big Birthday!" along with songs from the December 20th, 2009 show at the same venue from the Big, Big Show In The Round tour. Both shows would be made into specials that would be shown in theaters via CinemaLive. A separate show that was recorded from the Big, Big Show In The Round tour was recorded and was made available on the group's now-defunct interactive website Wiggle Time and the Greatest Hits special wasn't given the same treatment and was made unavailable after it's theatrical run. The Big, Big Show In The Round special would find it's way on YouTube after Wiggle Time was shut down in 2015. The songs that didn't appear in the Big Birthday album and video are Morningtown Ride, Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, Turn Around, Music Box Dancer, Clap Your Hands with Dorothy, Dorothy, Pick Roses with Me, The Fairy Dance, Humpty Dumpty, Can You (Point Your Fingers And Do The Twist?), Hula, Hula Baby, The Shimmie Shake!, Getting Strong!, Sing With Me, Wave to Wags, The Monkey Dance, Captain Feathersword Fell Asleep on His Pirate Ship (Quack Quack), Great Big Man In Red and the Fairy Dance. All that's left of the Greatest Hits Acer Arena performance is what was released in the Big Birthday video.

On November 17, 2020, Anthony Field posted two clips from the Sydney concert on both his Twitter and Instagram. The clips are nowhere to be found in the Big Birthday video, especially the clip where the plane prop fell on Anthony at the end of Fly Through The Sky. This has lead to speculation that another concert performed at the Acer Arena during the tour was recorded.

Videos

Big Birthday video

See Also

TV

• The Wiggles Live at Disneyland (found Australian TV special; 1998)
• The Wiggles (partially found alternate versions of episodes of children's show; 1998-2011)
• The Wiggles Series One (partially lost deleted scenes of children's live-action series; 1997-1998)
• The Wiggles Show (partially found animated songs from children's show; mid-2000s)
• The Wiggles (lost unaired ABC pilot featuring children's group; 1995)
• The Wiggles Show (found Latin American adaptation of children's series; 2006)
• Let's Wiggle (partially found short series for children's band; 1997-1999)
• The Wiggles (partially found Taiwanese adaptation of children's series; 2003-2007)
• Wiggle and Learn (lost unreleased original version of children's TV series; 2006)
• A Wiggly Postcard from Asia (lost TV special of The Wiggles tour; existence unconfirmed; 2003)
• Dorothy The Dinosaur (lost episodes of unreleased fourth season of children's TV series; 2016)
• The Wiggles (lost Indian adaptations of children TV series; existence unconfirmed; 2006)

Concerts

• The Wiggles Big Show (partially lost footage of Melbourne performance; 1997)
• Wiggly Party: Live in Concert (partially found footage of Vodafone Arena performance; 2001)
• Yule Be Wiggling Christmas Show (lost footage of "The Wiggles" live performance; existence unconfirmed; 2000)
• Toot Toot Show! (partially lost footage of The Wiggles performance; 1998)
• The Wiggles - NASA (lost footage of National Aeronautics and Space Administration performance; 2004)
• Santa's Rockin'! Live In Concert (partially lost footage of Sydney Entertainment Centre performance; 2004)
• Wiggly Safari Show (partially found footage of The Wiggles performances; 2002)
• Wiggledancing! Live On Stage (partially found pro-shot recordings of concert tour; 2006)
• Christmas Celebration (lost footage of The Wiggles final performance; 2012)
• The Wiggles LIVE In Concert Tsunami Relief Benefit Concert (partially found footage of Indian Ocean earthquake fundraiser performance; 2005)
• The Wiggly Big Show Tour (lost footage of "The Wiggles" live performance; 1999)
• The Wiggles Reunion Show (partially lost footage of Melbourne performance; 2016)
• Pop Go The Wiggles Show (partially found footage of The Wiggles tour; 2007)
• Sailing Around The World Live! (partially lost recordings of The Wiggles tour; 2005-2006)
• Big Red Car Tour (partially found footage of The Wiggles concert tour; 1995-1996)
• The Wiggles (lost video recordings from Wonderland Sydney concert; 2001)

Videos

• Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas (partially found original version of Wiggles video; 1996)
• Wake Up Jeff! (partially found original version of Wiggles video; 1996)
• A Wiggle Tale: Dorothy the Dinosaur Goes to Hospital (found promotional VHS tape; 1999)
• Getting Strong! (partially found original version of Wiggles video; 2006)
• The Wiggles (partially lost widescreen versions of children's videos; 2002-2004)
• Dancing Ride (found The Wiggles music video; 2001)
• LIVE Hot Potatoes! (found uncut version of Wiggles video; 2005)
• Overture Introductions (lost pre-show videos from The Wiggles tour; 2004)
• The Wiggles (partially found unreleased music videos of children's group; 2000s-2020s)
• Toot Toot! (found original version of The Wiggles video; 1998)
• Pop Go The Wiggles (lost unreleased version of The Wiggles video; existence unconfirmed; 2006)

Music

• Get Ready To Wiggle! (lost "The Wiggles" UK album; 1999)
• The Wiggles Show (partially lost songs from Latin American children's series; 2006)
• The Wiggles (partially lost re-recorded instrumentals of Australian children's band; 2000s)

Miscellaneous

• WiggleWorld (partially found interactive children's website; 2000-2001)
• Neighbours "Episode 3896" (partially found episode of Australian soap opera; 2001)
• Mister Moose's Fun Time (partially found spin-off of "The All New Captain Kangaroo" Fox Kids children's series reboot; late 1990s)