OCTONAUTS LIVE! Releases Final Metro Shows and Announces New Regional Dates

Due to overwhelming demand, new dates and shows have been added to the world premiere of OCTONAUTS LIVE! OPERATION REEF SHIELD, touring Australia from 21 February 2015.

New dates and times are on sale via OctonautsLive.com.au.

Developed from a special new episode of the worldwide hit children's animation series The Octonauts (ABC For Kids), OCTONAUTS LIVE! OPERATION REEF SHIELD is a live adventure musical touring Australia's premier theatres.

Valiant polar bear Captain Barnacles and his team of undersea adventurers have won countless tiny hearts across Australia with their mission to Explore! Rescue! Protect! the world's marine life. The OCTONAUTS is the second most watched children's TV show in the country, seen daily on ABC2 by 257,000 viewers nationally.

The beloved animated characters have been re-imagined for the live stage and transformed into impressive lifelike walkaround costumes of the pedigree that has made Life Like Touring Australia's leading producer of family theatre.

In OCTONAUTS LIVE! OPERATION REEF SHIELD, Captain Barnacles, the daring cat Lieutenant Kwazii and Medic Peso the big-hearted penguin join forces with a host of colourful Australian reef dwellers on a mission to save the Great Barrier Reef!

"Some of the most unusual creatures in the world live in Australia, so you never know what we'll encounter there. I look forward to it!" says Captain Barnacles.

Entirely created and produced in Australia, OCTONAUTS LIVE! OPERATION REEF SHIELD! is written and directed by Life Like Touring's Theresa Borg, who wrote and directed acclaimed internationally touring productions Scooby-Doo Live! Musical Mysteries, which toured to Australia, North America, Middle East and Europe, and Sesame Street Presents Elmo's World Tour that toured Australia and Asia.

When the Octonauts deploy a new undersea medical station designed to keep the reef clean and healthy, they discover a problem that threatens the reef dwellers and their home. An outbreak of spiky and very hungry Crown of Thorns Starfish are on their way to eat the reef!

It will take all the Octonauts, their Gups, and a rag-tag crew of sea creatures to ward off the advancing starfish and save the Great Barrier Reef!

OCTONAUTS LIVE! OPERATION REEF SHIELD is a live on stage underwater spectacular full of interactive and educational fun, special effects and a musical score.

A mix of science fiction technology and biology, the subject matter of The OCTONAUTS is said to be reminiscent of Star Trek and Thunderbirds blended with Jacques Cousteau.

"Octonauts, to your stations! Protect the reef, every fish and every crustacean!" - Captain Barnacles.

New tour dates and more information available via OctonautsLive.com.au

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OCTONAUTS LIVE! OPERATION REEF SHIELD
2015 Australian Extended Tour Dates and Tickets

Saturday 21 February
Drum Theatre, Dandenong
*Exclusive preview shows selling fast!

Wednesday 25 to Saturday 28 February
QUT Garden Theatre, Brisbane
*New Wednesday shows released!

Friday 6 to Sunday 8 March
Capitol Theatre, Sydney
*Last seats selling fast!

Thursday 12 to Sun 15 March
Comedy Theatre, Melbourne
*Final 4pm Sunday show released!

Wednesday 18 to Friday 20 March
Adelaide Festival Centre
*New Wednesday shows released!

Thursday 16 to Saturday 28 March
Crown Theatre Perth
*New Thursday shows released!

Tuesday 9 June 2015
Wendouree Centre for the Performing Arts, Ballarat
*On sale now

Wednesday, 10 June 2015
Geelong Performing Arts Centre
*On sale 18 February

Saturday, 13 June 2015
Ulumbarra Theatre, Bendigo
*On sale 18 February

Monday, 15 June
Wangaratta Performing Arts Centre
*On sale 18 February

Wednesday, 17 June
Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre
*On sale now

Friday, 19 June
Orange Civic Theatre
*On sale 18 February

Saturday, 20 June
Canberra Theatre Centre
*On sale Wednesday 18 February

Monday, 22 June
Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre, Nowra
*On sale 18 February

Tuesday, 23 June
Illawarra Performing Arts Centre
*On sale 18 February

Monday, 29 June
The Glasshouse, Port Macquarie
*On sale 18 February

Wednesday, 01 July
The Events Centre, Caloundra
*On sale now

Thursday, 02 July
Nambour Civic Centre
*On sale now

Saturday, 04 July
Pilbeam Theatre, Rockhampton
*On sale now

Tuesday, 07 July
Moncrieff Theatre Entertainment Centre, Bundaberg
*On sale now

Wednesday, 08 July
The J Theatre, Noosa
*On sale now

Thursday, 09 July
Empire Theatre, Toowoomba
*On sale now

Saturday, 11 July
Ipswich Civic Theatre
*On sale now

Thursday, 16 July
Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre
*On sale now

Saturday, 18 July
Griffith Regional Theatre
*On sale now

Monday, 20 July
Eastbank Centre, Riverlinks
*On sale now

Wednesday, 22 July
Wagga Wagga Civic Theatre
*On sale 18 February

Thursday, 23 July
Albury Entertainment Centre
*On sale 18 February

Saturday, 25 July
West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul
*On sale now