The British regional newspaper the Weston & Somerset Mercury is reporting in the following article from their official website, thewestonmercury.co.uk, that Nick Jr. megastar "Dora the Explorer" will be bringing her live musical stage show, "Dora The Explorer LIVE! Search For The City Of Lost Toys", to the Bristol Hippodrome in Bristol, South West England, UK, where Nickelodeon's preschool superstar will be holding performances of her live musical stage show on Friday 26th July 2013 at 4:00pm, Saturday 27th July 2013 at 10:00am, 1:00pm and 4:00pm, and on Sunday 28th July 2013 at 10:00am and 1:00pm, as part of the venues Summer 2013 season of entertainment! Tickets for Dora the Explorer LIVE! at the Bristol Hippodrome are priced between £14-19 are are available from the box office on 08448 713012 and through the Bristol Hippodrome's official website, bristolhippodrome.org.uk!
Win tickets to see DoraAlso, below is a review of "Dora The Explorer LIVE! Search For The City Of Lost Toys" at the Bristol Hippodrome, from The Bristol Post, via This Is Bristol:
DORA the Explorer will be on stage in Bristol next month, in a singing and dancing spectacular - and your family could win tickets.
Dora the Explorer.
Following its UK premiere in London’s West End, the national tour of Nickelodeon’s Dora the Explorer Live! Search for the City of Lost Toys will soon hit the Hippodrome.
Fans of Dora will delight in this two-act, song and dance spectacular which invites them to think, sing and play along.
Dora the Explorer Live! is designed to teach kids to explore, communicate, overcome obstacles, solve puzzles and discover a diverse and exciting world full of fun.
In this show, which has been seen by more than two million people, Dora has lost her teddy bear, Osito, and the search is on to retrieve him.
With the help of the audience, Map, Backpack, Boots, Diego and their courageous friends, Dora uses her map-reading, counting, musical and language skills to successfully pass through the number pyramid and the mixed-up jungle to reach the City of Lost Toys.
But that sneaky fox Swiper is playing tricks along the way.
The show will be staged at the Hippodrome from July 26-28. Performances will take place at 4pm on July 26; 10am, 1pm and 4pm on July 27 and at 10am and 1pm on July 28.
Tickets, priced £14-19, are available from the box office on 08448 713012.
We have teamed up with the Bristol Hippodrome to offer the chance for readers to win two family tickets to the show at 10am on July 27.
To be in with a chance of winning a set of the family tickets, all you have to do is answer the following question: What item has Dora lost in the show?
Send your answer, along with your name, address, email address and a daytime telephone number to: Dora the Explorer competition, North Somerset Times, 32 Waterloo Street, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 1LW by 9am on July 5.
Usual Archant rules apply and the editor’s decision is final. By entering this competition you are agreeing to be contacted by Archant. You can also enter by clicking on the link [here].
REVIEW: Dora The Explorer at the Bristol Hippodrome, eight out of ten, by Martin Booth
AN adult approaching Dora the Explorer for the first time would be utterly bamboozled.
Dora is a young Mexican girl who talks in both Spanish and English.
Her best friend is a monkey called Boots, and he accompanies her on lots of adventures with the help of a talking map and backpack.
The show over the weekend at the Hippodrome was a stage version of the Nickelodeon cartoon, which has tapped in to the psyche of children of a certain age.
My two-and-a-half year-old daughter was enraptured throughout this performance.
With the other children in the audience she pointed and waved at the oversized characters on stage, she gesticulated wildly when Dora's nemesis, a sneaky fox called Swiper appeared, she clapped her hands, stamped her feet, held a star aloft when instructed, and spun round and round in the aisle even when not instructed.
There might have been talking monkeys and dancing cows, but this was also a production which had a story with a classic three-act structure.
Dora and some of her friends had lost their toys, the adventure took us to the Number Pyramid and Mixed-up Jungle, before the final reconciliation at the City of Lost Toys.
Turning a 20-minute television programme into a 90-minute stage show never felt forced.
Instead, this meant there was time for a few exuberant song and dance routines, and the introduction of more popular characters such as Azul the blue train and Dora's animal-loving cousin, Diego, who are usually more peripheral figures on the screen.
There would have been a lot of very happy youngsters in Bristol this weekend, thrilled to meet their bilingual heroine in this fun-filled and surprisingly educational show.
Any production that teaches children not just to count to three, but to count to three in Spanish with the help of a hyperactive monkey with a penchant for colourful footwear, should be applauded.
