April 12, 2007
G'Day, Sheila!
Somebody regularly shows up here trolling Google for Larissa Wiggles.
Well, we Llamas are nothing if not accommodating of our audience's tastes, so here ya go:
Larissa is one of the Red Coat Dancers seen in The Wiggles videos. In addition to being a dancer, she also plays Henry the Octopus at times.Growing up in Sydney, Australia, Larissa began dancing when she was just 3 years old with the Halloran School of Dance. Learning Irish, ballet, tap and jazz dancing, Larissa was quite accomplished at a rather young age, earning second place in an Irish Dance Competition when she was 16.
Larissa actually began her career with The Wiggles at an early age, when she became a child dancer for one of their early videos.
In addition to her work with The Wiggles, Larissa has also done a few other dancing projects. One, as a dancer in Haste to the Wedding, which was a theatrical show that was produced by Anthony and Paul Field, the Blue Wiggle and The Wiggles General Manager. She has also done a K-mart commercial, has danced in Australia for Australia Fashion Week, and has had some parts in short films and movies.
While Larissa Wright will no longer be touring with The Wiggles, she will continue to do shows and videos, so will not be leaving them (or us) completely.
Videos Larissa Wright appears in
Wiggle Bay
Cold Spaghetti Western
Top of the Tots
Wiggly Safari
Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins
Santa's Rockin!
Wiggly Wiggly Christmas (Feliz Navidad Dancer)
Yule Be Wiggling (as a reindeer)
Toot Toot! (as a dancer)
(Info filched directly from the Wiggles Dancers homepage. Highlighted videos are the ones I know we own off the top of my head - and there are more - so please, Wiggly lawyers, don't make a stink about us lifting your copy. We've donated plenty to your empire. Fair dinkum.)
I can only assume Larissa didn't do the voice of Henry the Octopus, along with Wags the Dog one of the few truly annoying bits about the show.
While we went through an all-things-Wiggly stage at Orgle Manor, we've long sailed out of those waters. (Other than the five year old's occassional requests that I do the voices - do you know how hard it is for an average 'Murican to make a convincing vocal distinction between Anthony and Murray?) On the one hand, this is something of a pity - I always enjoyed their music and I thought all the other stuff pretty harmless. On the other hand, I'm rayther glad we didn't have to get into this whole New Yellow Wiggle thing.
Lucky bugger! Daughter is just getting into The Wiggles.
Posted by: GroovyVic at April 12, 2007 12:52 PMJust remember - Fruit salad. Yummy, yummy.
Posted by: Robbo the LB at April 12, 2007 01:41 PMHave two moving out of the Wiggles phase and one moving in. I find Dorothy the Dinosaur to be much more annoying that Wags - Wags doesn't talk. If the Kids like the Wiggles intro them to the , GroovyVic. I spent an 10 hour car ride listening to Under A Shady Tree and Elvis with the Tots and managed to keep my sanity.
Posted by: Taleena at April 12, 2007 08:59 PMI've got two Wiggles CD's in my vehicle, because Son loved them when he was younger. So I'm all too familiar with Fruit Salad and all that.
What was really funny was that Son would recite that song about those Hebrew words.
I had to listen to that for a five hour drive to MI.
Posted by: GroovyVic at April 13, 2007 06:48 AM
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