Live Action Heroes

Live Action Heroes
Show by Hi-5
Start Date:	18/03/2006
End Date:	25/04/2007 (Main Tour)
Leg(s):	03
Shows:	United Kingdom; South Africa; Singapore; Australia; New Zealand
DVD:	Action Heroes
Chronology by Hi-5
Before Tour:	Space Magic: Live in Concert
This tour:	Live Action Heroes
Next Tour:	The Hi-5 Circus Stageshow

Live Action Heroes is the seventh Hi-5 concert, that began on the 18 to the 19th of March 2006 at the The Lowry in Salford, and later toured the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Singapore, and Australia that year. It was later brought to New Zealand the following year, from the 11th of April in Auckland to the 25th that month in Invercargill, where the tour concluded.

This tour notably marks the last concert tour for Kathleen de Leon Jones, who was pregnant during the first half of the United Kingdom and Ireland tour and had her last shows with the group at the Hammersmith Apollo in London from the 7-9th April, 2006. Sun Pezzimenti, who was then hired as a understudy, took over her for the rest of the tour's run and subsequently succeeded her in Hi-5 from that tour onwards. This was also the last concert tour that Tim Harding participated in as well as a presenter and voice/puppeteer for Jup Jup, as he would later end up in a motorcycle accident in 2007 before the start of the group's next tour, to which the injuries suffered resulted in his departure from Hi-5 later that year.

Furthermore, this tour also marks the last time that Hi-5 would tour the United Kingdom, Ireland and South Africa. For the United Kingdom and Ireland however, these efforts would later be succeeded from 2008 to 2010 with a localised version of the group.

Setlist[]

NOTE: Songs in bold highlight the Songs of the Week featured in this concert.

Original Tour (2006-2007)[]

Act 1[]

Act 2[]

"Super Active" Mini Tour (2007)[]

Action Hero
E-N-E-R-G-Y
Super Hero Warm-Up
Come Around To My Place
Gi-Normous
Racing Car Driver
L.O.V.E.
Roller Coaster
Give Them A Cheer
T.E.A.M.
Making Music

Cast[]

Presenters[]

Kathleen de Leon Jones (up until Hammersmith Apollo)
Nathan Foley
Tim Harding
Kellie Crawford
Charli Robinson
Sun Pezzimenti (originally an understudy, later an official presenter from Turnbridge Wells onwards)

Puppeteers[]

Noni McCallum as Chatterbox and Jup Jup (also understudy for all members)
Tim Harding as Jup Jup

Other Understudies[]

Stevie Nicholson (Super Active Mini Tour version only)

Tour Dates[]

South Africa (2006)[]

March 2006 - Gauteng, Johannesburg Expo Centre, Johannesburg

United Kingdom, Ireland and Singapore (2006)[]

March 18-19th, 2006 - Salford, The Lowry
March 22nd, 2006 - Derby Assembly Rooms
March 23rd, 2006 - North West England, Blackpool, Opera House
March 24-25th, 2006 - Bradford, St. George's Hall
March 27th-31st, 2006 - Dublin, Olympia Theatre
April 1st-2nd, 2006 - Ireland, Killarney, Gleneagle INEC Arena
April 4th, 2006 - Norwich, Theatre Royal
April 5th, 2006 - Cambridge Corn Exchange
April 7-9th, 2006 - London, Hammersmith Apollo (last shows with Kathleen)
April 11th, 2006 - South East England, Turnbridge Wells, Assembly Hall Theatre
April 12-13th, 2006 - South West England, Bournemouth, Pavillion Theatre
April 15th, 2006 - South East England, Reading, The Hexagon
April 16th, 2006 - Bristol Hippodrome
April 17th, 2006 - South West England, Torquay, Princess Theatre
April 18th, 2006 - Cardiff, St. David's Hall
April 20th-21st, 2006 - Wales, Llandudno, Venue Cymru
April 22nd, 2006 - Stoke-on-Trent, Victoria Theatre
April 23rd, 2006 - Southampton, Mayflower Theatre
April 25th, 2006 - East Midlands, Grimsby Auditorium
April 26th, 2006 - York, Grand Opera House
April 29th, 2006 - Birmingham, Alexandra Theatre
April 30th, 2006 - Glasgow, Royal Concert Hall
May 1st, 2006 - Liverpool Empire Theatre
May 27th-June 4th, 2006 - Singapore Expo, Hall 3

Australia (2006)[]

October 21st-22nd, 2006 - Sydney Super Dome
October 25th, 2006 - Adelaide Entertainment Centre
October 28-29th, 2006 - Perth, Burswood Dome
October 30th, 2006 - Mandurah Performing Arts Centre
November 4th, 2006 - Toowoomba, QL, Empire Theatre
November 6th, 2006 - Brisbane Entertainment Centre
November 8th, 2006 - QL, Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre
November 11th, 2006 - Newcastle Entertainment Centre
November 12th, 2006 - Wollongong Entertainment Centre
November 14th, 2006 - Canberra, AIS Arena
November 17-19th, 2006 - Melbourne, John Cain Arena

New Zealand (2007)[]

April 11th, 2007 - Auckland, Civic Theatre
April 14th, 2007 - Hamilton Founders Theatre
April 16th, 2007 - Palmerston North, Regent on Broadway
April 17th, 2007 - Hastings Performing Arts Centre
April 19th, 2007 - Wellington, St. James Theatre
April 22nd, 2007 - Christchurch Town Hall
April 24th, 2007 - Dunedin Town Hall
April 25th, 2007 - Invercargill, ILT Stadium Southland

Unknown Dates (2007)[]

2007, Hunter Valley (recorded for the 2007 promotional DVD)
All other locations for the Super Active Mini Tour (2007)

Trivia[]

This Hi-5 tour marks the first use of digital screen projections as opposed to the projection scrims used in previous tours, and is also the only tour featuring the original members to do so.
- Furthermore, the projections used mostly recycles visuals, animations and transitions from past seasons, in combination with new animation done by ZSpace. These aforementioned animations include Songs of the Week introductions from Series 7 (which this tour mostly represents), transitions from Series 3 and opening animations from Playing Cool.
- Speaking of new animations, the tour also marks the first formal public usage of the opening theme animation used on Series 8, even before its actual debut in the series.

Though not a full member at the time, the South African, United Kingdom and Ireland stops of the tour marks the only shows in the region to feature Sun.
The New Zealand leg of the tour also marks the last shows in that region to feature Charli as a presenter, alongside Tim.
In a 2006 radio interview with Alan Jones, the tour was supposed to expanded to other Asian countries including the Philippines, Hong Kong and a return to Malaysia, but these plans were never materialised.
A shortened mini version of this tour would later travel across several small suburbs in Australia and was dubbed as the "Super Active Tour". It was from that point that Tim barely appeared on stage with the group, and was substituted by Noni McCallum and later Stevie Nicholson, the latter who would officially take over from him in Hi-5 later that year. One of these shows in the Hunter Valley would later be recorded and placed as one the main features on the 2007 Promo DVD.
- The stage backgrounds on this tour utilises the cartoon designs of the members from the cover art from the WOW! album.