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Turn the Music Up! | Hi-5Photo – Cynthia Sciberras

So silly, enthusiastic, dazzling and catchy it's contagious and entertaining, Turn the Music Up! is the latest offering from children’s favourites Hi-5.

The music, dancing and singing is deceptively simple but also a fun take on songs for pre-schoolers. This up-to-the-minute show is up to the usual standards and Stevie, Lauren, Fely, Casey and Tim are appropriately smiley, animated, loud and jolly as they work around a brightly coloured set. Although, of course, being a Hi-5 show there are plenty of surprises in store for the audience of excited toddlers and understanding parents. There are chants, back-slapping, audience participation and bad jokes galore as the actors jump on the “Dancing Bus” in search of songs for the biggest, loudest, bestest and most fun house party in the world. Their journey takes them from the “Happy House” and the “Toybox” to a hoe-down on the “Hi-5 Farm” where they also “Swish, Swish, Swish” with fishing rods in the hope of catching some fish. After finding some L.O.V.E. and waking up Chatterbox (the puppet), the crew find themselves on Mars where they learn the “Martian Groove” and with the use of a wound up imagination return home to the happy house. Here the bouncing, giant bears, Jup Jup the Martian puppet and the general narrative come together in a party of genuine warmth from a group that duly delivers what its audience wants.

Endlessly light, this is Hi-5 and it’s all hit with no miss with a great pace and true pantomiming style. The result is a bubbly, hippy, happy day had by all. Even the adults walk away with infectious smiles.


Turn the Music Up!
Hi-5

Tickets: Premium $45.90 Price includes a Hi-5 gift to the value of $15.00 | A Reserve $34.90


TOUR DATES

NEW SOUTH WALES
8 & 14 April PENRITH Panthers
Tickets on sale December 6 2010
1800 061 991 www.panthersworld.panthers.com.au

9 April ENMORE Enmore Theatre
Tickets on sale December 15 2010
02 9550 3666 www.ticketek.com.au / www.enmoretheatre.com.au

11 April NEWCASTLE Civic Theatre
Tickets on sale December 15 2010
02 4929 1977 www.ticketek.com.au / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

12 April SUTHERLAND Sutherland Entertainment Centre
Tickets on sale December 8 2010
02 9521 8888 / www.suthentcent.com.au

13 April CAMPBELLTOWN The Cube
Tickets on sale December 10 2010
02 4625 0000 www.thecube.net.au

27 April KINGSFORD The Juniors
Tickets on sale December 2 2010
02 9349 7555 www.southsjuniors.org.au

29 April WOLLONGONG Illawarra PAC
Tickets on sale December 15 2010
02 4224 5999 www.ipac.org.au

VICTORIA
15 April MELBOURNE Dallas Brooks Hall
Tickets on sale December 15 2010
132 849 www.ticketek.com.au

16 April DANDENONG Drum Theatre
Tickets on sale December 15 2010
03 9771 6666 www.drumtheatre.com.au

18 April FRANKSTON Arts Centre
Tickets on sale December 8 2010
03 9784 1060 www.artscentre.frankston.vic.gov.au

19 April MONASH Robert Blackwood Concert Hall
Tickets on sale December 15 2010
03 9905 1111 www.monash.edu.au/monart

20- 21 April MOONEE PONDS The Clocktower Centre
Tickets on sale December 8 2010
03 9243 9191 www.clocktowercentre.com.au

ACT
28 April CANBERRA Theatre
Tickets on sale December 8 2010
02 6275 2700 www.canberratheatre.org.au

SOUTH AUSTRALIA
1 May ADELAIDE Her Maj
Tickets on sale December 11 2010
131 246 www.bass.net.au

WESTERN AUSTRALIA
7 May BUNBURY Bunbury Entertainment Centre
Tickets on sale December 8 2010
1300 661 272 www.bunburyentertainment.com

8 May PERTH Concert Hall
Tickets on sale December 8 2010
08 9484 1133 www.bocsticketing.com.au

QUEENSLAND
13 May NAMBOUR Nambour Civic Centre
Tickets on sale December 8 2010
07 5475 7777 www.nambourciviccentre.com.au

14 May LOGAN Logan Entertainment Centre
Tickets on sale December 15 2010
07 3412 5626 www.logan.qld.gov.au/lec

15 May GOLD COAST Arts Centre
Tickets on sale December 16 2010
07 5588 4000 www.theartscentregc.com.au

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