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Bob the Builder LIVE! is a Bob the Builder stage show. It was later released as a video in the United Kingdom and in North America.

Description

2002 UK VHS and DVD

Fun & Excitement from Bob's 1st ever LIVE show!

Hang onto your hard hats! You're about to enjoy Bob the Builder's 1st ever LIVE arena tour!

Mr. Bentley has asked Bob to turn some waste ground into a fun place to hold the town's jamboree, which takes place the following day. They'd better get to work! Can Bob fix it? Yes he can! And can you help? Yes you can! By singing and dancing along, by hammering, sawing, and telling Spud to stay out of trouble!

Enjoy the excitement of Bob, Wendy and their friends singing and dancing their way through a fun-packed, larger-than-life adventures in front of your very eyes. There are 10 fantastic songs including 4 brand new tracks, and of course Bob's 2 number-one hit singles, "Can we fix it?" and "Mambo No. 5."

So, come and join Bob and his team in this musical extravaganza that can now be enjoyed over and over again!

2004 US/Canada VHS and DVD

Hang onto your hard hats! It's exciting! It's New! It's Bob the Builder: LIVE!, the friendly builder's first-ever live stage show! Bob, Wendy and their friends are revved up and ready for a fun-packed stage show that brings the wildly popular Bob the Builder television series to life. Bob and his partner, Wendy, invite children to sing and dance along with them, the mischievous Spud, and Bob's crew of fun-loving machines - Lofty, Muck, Scoop, Roley and Dizzy. When given the challenge to transform a junkyard into a bandstand, Bob and the crew entertain children while showing them how much fun it is to work together, solve problems, and build friendships. Can we do it? Yes, we can!

Plot

Bob and the team are asked to transform a heap pile into something more productive. Meanwhile, Spud wants apples from an apple tree, so he steals Bob's ladder while Bob is at the top of the rubbish pile. Also at this time, Pilchard disappears so Wendy and Roley go off to look for her. Then, while Spud is eating apples at the top of the apple tree, Mr. Bentley comes and takes the ladder back to Bob. Then once Bob finally gets down (after Scoop recommends that he slides down one of the poles) a Storm starts. Then after the storm, the team gets back to work, when Wendy notices that the rubbish heap, is a bandstand. So Bob and the team restore it. Meanwhile, Wendy helps Spud get down from the apple tree, and at the end of the show, Pilchard turns up. So overall, things turned out okay in the end.

Characters

Character Introduced

The Announcer

Songs

Act I

Act II

Cast

UK

Neil Morrissey as Bob, Roley, and Lofty
Rob Rackstraw as Scoop, Muck, Spud, Announcer, Mr. Bentley, and Squawk
Kate Harbour as Wendy, Dizzy, Pilchard and Bird

US

William Dufris as Bob
Lorelei King as Wendy
Alan Marriott as Scoop, Spud, Announcer, and Mr. Bentley
Lachele Carl as Muck
Maria Darling as Dizzy and Roley
Sonya Leite as Lofty
Kate Harbour as Pilchard and Bird (Uncredited)
Rob Rackstraw as Squawk (Uncredited)

Tour Dates

United Kingdom

February 22-24, 2002 at the Sheffield Arena
March 1-3, 2002 at the Nottingham Arena
March 6-10, 2002 at the London Arena
March 13-17, 2002 at the Newcastle Arena
March 20-24, 2002 at the Manchester Ena
March 27-31, 2002 at the Cardiff Arena
April 3-7, 2002 at the Glasgow SECC
April 10-21, 2002 at the Wembley Arena (recorded)
April 24-28, 2002 at the Birmingham NEC

Australia

North America

Leg 1

March 7-9, 2003 Nashville, TN at the Municipal Auditorium
March 11-12, 2003 Macon, GA at the Macon Centreplex
March 14-16, 2003 Charlotte, NC at the Charlotte Coliseum
March 18-19, 2003 Huntsville, AL at the Von Braun Center
March 21-23, 2003 Cincinnati, OH at the Cincinnati Gardens
March 25-26, 2003 Wichita, KS at the Kansas Coliseum
March 28-29, 2003 Denver, CO at the Denver Coliseum
April 4-6, 2003 Sacramento, CA at the Arco Arena
April 11-13, 2003 San Diego, CA at the Sports Arena
April 18-20, 2003 Phoenix, AZ at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum
April 24-26, 2003 Las Vegas, NV at the Thomas & Mack Center
April 28-29, 2003 Salt Lake City, UT at the E Center
May 2-4, 2003 Oakland, CA at the Oakland County Alameda Coliseum
May 7-8, 2003 Fresno, CA at the Selland Arena
May 9-11, 2003 San Francisco, CA at the Cow Palace
May 13-14, 2003 Boise, ID at the Idaho Center
May 16-18, 2003 Portland, OR at the Memorial Coliseum
May 20-21, 2003 Spokane, WA at the Spokane Arena
May 23-25, 2003 Vancouver, BC at the PNE Coliseum
May 30-June 1, 2003 Tacoma, WA at the Tacoma Dome

Leg 2

September 12-14, 2003 Albany, NY at the Pepsi Arena
September 16-17, 2003 Wilkes Barre, PA at the Wachovia Arena
September 19-21, 2003 Trenton, NJ at the Sovereign Bank Arena
September 23-24, 2003 Dayton, OH at the Nutter Center
September 26-28, 2003 Detroit, MI at the Cobo Arena
September 30-October 1, 2003 Peoria, IL at the Peoria Civic Center
October 3-5, 2003 Minneapolis, MN at the Target Center
October 9-11, 2003 Uniondale, NY at the Nassau Coliseum
October 14-15, 2003 Columbus, OH at the Nationwide Arena
October 17-19, 2003 Greenville, SC at the BI-LO Center
October 21-22, 2003 Ft Wayne, IN at the Memorial Coliseum
October 24-26, 2003 Huntington, WV at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena
November 1-2, 2003 Atlanta, GA at the Gwinnett Civic Center
November 4-5, 2003 Mobile, AL at the Mobile Civic Center
November 7-9, 2003 Baton Rouge, LA at the Riverside Centroplex
November 11-12, 2003 Tallahassee, FL at the Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center
November 14-16, 2003 Miami, FL at the University of Miami Convocation Center
November 18-19, 2003 Ft Myers, FL at the TECO Arena
November 21-23, 2003 Kissimmee, FL at the Silver Spurs Arena
December 2-3, 2003 Providence, RI at the Ryan Center
December 5-7, 2003 Pittsburgh, PA at the Mellon Arena
December 9-10, 2003 Richmond, VA at the Richmond Coliseum
December 12-14, 2003 Toronto, ON at the Ricoh Coliseum
December 16-17, 2003 Wheeling, WV at the Wheeling Civic Center
December 19-20, 2003 Kansas City, MO at the Kemper Arena

Trivia

The episodes that were referenced in the live show were "Pilchard in a Pickle" (Series 1), "Scary Spud" (Series 1), "Spud and Squawk" (Series 3), "Bob and the Bandstand" (Series 4) and "Naughty Spud" (Series 1).
This tour played in the United Kingdom and Australia in 2002, while it played in the United States and Canada during March-December 2003.
The show used for this special was the Wembley Arena show, in which said location is next door to Wembley Stadium in London, England.
All non-human characters in this show (except Spud) are portrayed as animatronics.
All the Machines had actual drivers controlling them from inside (except Dizzy, who was remote controlled).
This is the last Bob the Builder VHS to be released in America that comes in a clamshell case.
On North American home media releases, this is called "Bob the Builder: The Live Show!" (although the opening title card still says "Bob the Builder LIVE!").
All the songs in the show are from the franchise's first studio album Bob the Builder: The Album, with the exceptions of "An Apple a Day", "I Can't Get Down", "Bob's Brass Band" and "Find That Cat". The latter 4 are later adaptated into a series of 4 musical animated Bob the Builder shorts known as Bob Stars!.
The costumes and props from this show were sent to a recycling plant and recycled (along with one of Skip's models though he was spared from the process) around 2010.
The songs from The Album were actually redubbed by the American actors for the US version, unlike on the actual album.
In the US dub, some of the original UK voices can be heard in the credits.
This is one of the first few Bob the Builder USA DVDs to feature a preview of Barney, the previous DVDs of 2002 and 2003 only had previews of Kipper, Angelina Ballerina, The Wiggles, and Bob the Builder
It's also the last Bob the Builder USA VHS to only show previews of Bob the Builder and Rubbadubbers, starting with the next USA VHS, Snowed Under, the previews of Angelina Ballerina, The Wiggles, and Kipper make a return, and the previews of Thomas and Friends, Pingu, and Barney are added.
In the tour, Spud and Mr. Bentley steal Bob's ladder from the apple tree and Squawk steals Spud's nose when Spud tosses it to Squawk's feet.
In the Dizzy's Sandwich Rescue part, Dizzy imitates a sad siren wail.
Early US promos for the home media release of this special use the UK version of Bob's Brass Band.
At the beginning, a child can be seen wearing a shirt with The Powerpuff Girls on it.