OT: The Wiggles

Hi Jennifer, I wanted to take my DS to see them but they wanted $60 each ticket. I thought that was waaaaaaaaaay to high for the Wiggles. Where do you live? What was the local auditorium they were having the concert at? They were playing at Madison Square Garden here in NY.

TIA, Dorothy in NY

$60????? That is ridiculous! We paid $16 a piece. We live in Greenville, SC. We went to the BiLo Center to see them. Greg, the yellow Wiggle wasn't there because he was having a double hernia operation so another guy stood in for him named Sam. He did a great job although I would have loved to have heard Greg singing. I have posted the pictures in my webshots album if you'd like to look at them.

I have the pictures posted if you'd like to take a look! They were so much fun.

Beauty, mate! :-)

We were introduced to the Wiggles several years ago by my husband's parents, when they stayed with us just after Maya was born. They'd just come from staying at my brother-in-law's home for several months in Sydney, Australia, and they would sing "Wiggles" songs to Maya, the Wiggles being a group of guys who played music for kids around the city--I had never heard of 'em. After the in-laws left, I happened to be shopping at Walmart one day and saw a video of 4 silly looking guys on a shelf and looked at it, wondering if this was the group they'd been talking about. Checked the songs and sure enough, they were the same the grandparents were singing to Maya, so I bought it, it was only $2. The video was very amateurish, but Maya just loved it. :-) I swear we must have seen that tape over a thousand times (or maybe it just seemed like that much). Ever go to bed with a Wiggles song stuck in your head?? It ain't pretty. :-)

Anyway, when Maya was almost 18 months old, the Wiggles went on their first U.S. tour, and came to Sacramento, not far from where we lived. I got us some tickets and made DH go with us (him grumbling the whole time about 'it's for kids!' and 'I'm gonna be Soo bored!')--our tickets were ONLY $15 each--no service charges, nothing! And was in some old auditorium there in Sacramento (which is not a 'big' city, despite being the state's capital). Can I just say that not only did Maya have a great time, but DH had more fun than all of us put together! :-)

What was really REALLY cool, was that, during one of the songs, members of the group went out INTO the audience and shook hands with people, and we got to meet Murray up close and personal! DH was just beside himself, although Maya had this puzzled look on her face like she was trying to figure out how this little guy on the tv show had gotten out of the tv, LOL. :-)

Glad you had a great time. We still love the Wiggles to this day, and have almost all their tapes...we'd love to go to see them again, but sadly, like someone else pointed out, now it would cost us each about $60 a ticket! And that's a bunch of money to spend on a 45-min to hour long show!! A great show, but there's no way we're spending that much, especially since we saw them before they were famous. :-)

My personal favorite is Captain Feathersword. My husband thinks I have a crush on him. I think there's just something sexy about a guy wearing feathers, LOL. ;-)

Carolyne in TX, who knows all the words to "Toot, Toot, Chugga, Chugga, Big Red Car"

That looks like stacks of fun Jennifer! They are going to make fabulous Scrapbook pages! TFS :)

Judy, SA