Buzzy Bee's Big Day Out Takes Flight

Buzzy Bee's Big Day Out Takes Flight

The multi-million dollar stage production of Buzzy Bee's Big Day Out took flight at the weekend with rapturous applause.

Hundreds of Auckland families have enjoyed the colorful production under the Buzzy Bee Big Top at Ellerslie Racecourse.

Reviewer Nik Smythe describes the show as quality family entertainment with massive potential to thrill audiences throughout New Zealand as it hits the road for 12 months.

"I regard Buzzy Bee to be an icon worthy of our children's attention, therefore I personally applaud the enterprise and wish it well," says Nik of Theatreview.

"This could become the new all-ages Rocky Horror Show! With a year on the road ahead, the sky is indeed the limit and to fly as it ought."

Tickets @ 027 BUZZY BEE or www.buzzybee.co.nz

"This could become the new all-ages Rocky Horror Show" -- Theatreview.org.nz

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More about Buzzy Bee and Buzzy Bee's Big Day Out

FOR 60 YEARS Buzzy Bee has brought delight to New Zealand children as a wooden toy. Now he, and his forgotten friends, are coming to life in a brand-new stage show Buzzy Bee's Big Day Out ... and they're on their way to a town near you!

Designed for all young children, their parents and their grand parents under a specially created "big top", the show will travel the country starting next month and involve some much-loved actors who will bring personality to these much-loved characters.

With a million dollar pre-production budget, the production values are first class and feature spectacularly colourful sets, dramatic costuming with a wonderful musical score that is largely original material.

Buzzy Bee's Big Day Out is a narrative story that follows an unusual day in the life of Buzzy Bee and his troupe of friends in their little town of Rolling Downs.

The prospect of being involved with a show where Buzzy Bee™ comes to life for the first time ever has attracted New Zealand's leading creative talent. The show was written by long-established children's writer Alan Trussell-Cullen and is being directed by the incomparably energetic Ben Crowder, whose last children's show was the sold out production of Bad Jelly the Witch.

The musical score is written by Michael O'Neill and Peter van der Fluit. Michael and Peter both have strong backgrounds in New Zealand music via their production company Liquid Studios and previously with a series of hits with their first band "The Screaming Meemees".

The first venue will be adjacent to the Southern Motorway in the grounds of the Ellerslie Racecourse in Auckland. The Show will present for three weeks during the school holidays and then move to various locations within the greater Auckland area before embarking on the national tour.

Confirmed Auckland venues include Albany, Devonport, Henderson, Manukau and Howick. The tour then heads to Northland during October and then back down through the central North Island during November and early December. The show will recommence in Napier following the New Year with the South Island planned for the warmer months of February through April 2008.

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