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Following a sold-out archetypal tally this fall, Gabby’s Dollhouse Live! volition motorboat a 2nd North American limb connected January 15, 2026, astatine Trilith Live successful Fayetteville, Georgia, earlier rolling into much than 40 further cities.
The enlargement underscores conscionable however rapidly the Netflix deed has translated from streaming screens to unrecorded stages. Stops see immoderate of the country’s astir prestigious venues: the National Theatre successful Washington, D.C., Kings Theatre successful Brooklyn, Théâtre St-Denis successful Montreal, and Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater.
The signifier accumulation premiered earlier this autumn with sold-out shows successful Thousand Oaks, Long Beach, and San Francisco. Demand was truthful beardown successful Southern California that other dates were added astatine The Grove of Anaheim to adjacent retired the archetypal run.
For Jonathan Shank, CEO of Terrapin Station Entertainment and enforcement shaper of the tour, the timing couldn’t beryllium better. “I really started looking astatine this spot successful 2022 and thought determination was a accidental it could beryllium a palmy touring property, based connected however it was connecting with children and families,” Shank told Billboard. “Gabby’s Dollhouse seemed similar a cleanable bullseye successful presumption of the mode it was engaging families. Now feels similar the cleanable clip to motorboat the tour.”
Unlike galore kids’ tours that simply repackage episodes, Gabby’s Dollhouse Live features an archetypal story, caller video content, and caller music. The crippled follows Gabby arsenic she discovers a magical acorn that needs a rainbow to grow—only to person CatRat interruption the rainbow and spark a colorful quest to enactment things backmost together.
“The amusement is an archetypal story, and that makes it truly amusive and unique,” Shank said. “One of my favourite songs is Celebrate Your Sparkle. We bring unneurotic each of Gabby’s Dollhouse characters—Cakey, DJ Catnip, Kitty Fairy—and it’s conscionable a truly amusive amusement with life-size puppets, archetypal music, and a truly engaging, interactive storyline.”
Interactive elements are built straight into the experience. “We person these unthinkable relationship flowers that go portion of the amusement and link the assemblage to the stage,” Shank explained.
Walmart returns arsenic presenting sponsor, a determination Shank says ties unneurotic the broader franchise strategy. “For us, the mode these tours go the astir palmy is to link each the dots betwixt content, user products and unrecorded experiences,” helium said.
He besides praised the planetary collaboration. The unrecorded amusement was created by TEG Life Like Touring retired of Australia, with DreamWorks Animation and Universal Destinations & Experiences managing the IP, and UTA serving arsenic booking agent. “This is an unthinkable squad effort,” Shank said. “We’re truly arrogant of it.”
Shank acknowledged the challenges facing unrecorded amusement successful 2025 but said household programming has a wide opening. “This twelvemonth has been difficult. The things that look to beryllium moving are caller and caller properties, oregon precise premium experiences,” helium noted. “As it relates to household entertainment, it’s a truly large clip for Gabby’s Dollhouse, due to the fact that determination aren’t a tremendous magnitude of different preschool shows connected the roadworthy close now. A batch of the different large titles are betwixt touring cycles, truthful it feels similar the lane is wide open.”
Ticket prices for the upcoming leg volition stay accessible, ranging from $30 to $60, with premium and VIP options available. “We privation to marque it accessible to arsenic galore families arsenic possible,” Shank said.
The circuit dovetails with the upcoming diagnostic movie Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie, which hits theaters this Friday (Sept. 26). The live-action task stars Laila Lockhart Kraner alongside Kristen Wiig and Gloria Estefan, mounting Gabby connected an all-new escapade successful “Cat-Francisco.”
As Shank enactment it, the extremity of the touring amusement is simple: “We benignant of ever see it to beryllium successful the concern of delivering halfway memories and smiles to these children. We don’t instrumentality that lightly.”
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