Live on Stage!

So your show (or Show Within a Show) is hugely popular among a wide audience. For example, Tropey the Wonder Dog. So what do you do next? Well, it's only natural that you produce Tropey The Wonder Dog Live! and tour it in major arenas! When your work gets turned into a live stage show featuring people in costumes, you've officially made it in showbiz.

Live on Stage! are stage productions based on directly or indirectly on licensed properties. The differences between this and a Screen-to-Stage Adaptation is that this type of show:

• Often comes from production companies who produce many shows like this a year
• Is usually intended to be temporary from the get-go, either as a touring production or a limited local production
• May create an entirely new plot rather than try to adapt the original source material, though some shows do simply re-enact the media.
• Especially for kids shows, it will include the most popular songs from the series, usually with at least one unique song, so the "live show" CD can be sold in the lobby.

If the show adapted is a cartoon, also expect it to:

• Have comparatively cheap costumes, with (non-human) cartoon characters usually being replicated with mascot costumes that sometimes don't translate well to real life.
• Is clearly intended for young children, and often interacts with the children in the audience.
• Often rely on voice-recordings rather than live acting, since the stage actors are not the original voice actors, and the audience would otherwise notice the difference in voice.

And as with many Show-Within-A-Shows, a in-universe Live on Stage! show may be rife with Adaptation Decay and Stylistic Suck, as well as lots of Camp.

For adult fan targeted stage adaptations of anime, see the 2.5D Theater section of Screen-to-Stage Adaptation.

Sub-Trope of Recycled with a Gimmick, and may overlap with Hero Stage Show. This trope's own Sub-Trope is On Ice.

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Real-Life Examples

Anime & Manga

• There are usually two small stage shows for each season of Pretty Cure, and a larger one feature more elaborate performances- for example, the normal stage shows feature one villain, while larger ones tend to feature multiple villains.
• Pokémon Live! was an American-produced live action stage musical of the Pokémon IP that toured September 2000 - January 2001. It featured larger-than-life puppets and actors in full-body mascot suits to depict over a dozen species of puppets. A Mexican version of the musical was also made that toured Mexico that same period. The only difference is that the cast all wore masks and had their lines dubbed over by their Mexican voice actors for the anime.
• Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirō has the Shimajiro Concert shows, hour-long stage plays involving the cast of the Shimajiro franchise. Some shows were filmed and put up on Amazon Prime Video in Japan.

Comic Books

• Garfield had many costumed live shows throughout the strip's run, but a musical adaptation was performed in 2017 called Garfield: The Musical with Catitude that mostly follows an original story about Garfield's birthday, and him realizing what The Power of Friendship truly is.
• Marvel Universe Live, a live show based on the Marvel Comics universe.
• Monica's Gang: Many stage adaptations featuring Monica and her friends were played through over the decades, but the most famous stage performance is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet titled Mônica e Cebolinha: No Mundo de Romeu e Julieta,^{Rough translation}Monica and Jimmy Five: In the World of Romeo and Juliet which was first performed in theaters across São Paulo in 1978 before being filmed Direct to Video in 1979. Unlike other stage adaptations based on the comic, this one proved to be so popular that an updated version was performed in 2013 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the franchise. This version would be played again in 2016 and 2018.
• The Smurfs gained a live show called "The Smurfs" which toured across the globe in 2014.
• Before Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Spider-Man had a short-lived live show called Spider Man Live.

Films

• Avatar: Toruk — The First Flight by Cirque du Soleil, a Distant Prequel to the film.
• How to Train Your Dragon has produced not one, but two live shows:
  • How to Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular (originally "How to Train Your Dragon Arena Spectacular") is an arena show adaptation of the original feature film produced by the team behind "Walking with Dinosaurs Arena Spectacular", featuring several original new dragon species puppets.
  • A Broadway-style production named How To Train Your Dragon ON ICE was performed on Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas cruise ship ice rink.
• The Now You See Me films had Now You See Me Live, which is a Defictionalization of the Four Horsemen's magic show (albeit minus actually pulling off the heists).
• The Trolls franchise had a live show known as Trolls Live! in 2020. It involves Poppy trying to save Hug Time from disappearing.
• Ice Age recieved the show Ice Age Live! A Mammoth Adventure in 2012. In the show, Peaches gets kidnapped by a new character named Shadow. It's now up to the herd to rescue her.
• Madagascar Live was a Broadway-esque retelling of the first movie. After a successful tour in 2011, the script became available for licensing through Music Theatre International. It's since become a popular choice for local community theatre and school productions.
• Jurassic World received Jurassic World Live Tour in 2019. It's produced by Feld Entertainment who previously worked on the aforementioned Marvel Universe Live.

Literature

• Arthur had two live shows: Arthur: A Live Adventure and Arthur Tricks The Tooth Fairy.
• Clifford the Big Red Dog had a live stage show that was also a musical, which had elements of the 2000 Animated Adaptation of the series.
• Curious George had one adapting the PBS Kids series.
• The Japanese children's book Chirin no Suzu by Takashi Yanase has gained several stage shows and theater shows across Japan. These include school plays, puppet shows, dramatic readings, and a street performance by Team Swit©h.
• Franklin had a few live shows produced by Koba Entertainment that mainly toured Canada.
• Max and Ruby had three productions produced by Koba Entertainment, one of which was a retelling of The Nutcracker.
• Little Bear had a Canadian-exclusive show called Winter Tails produced by Koba Entertainment.
• Noddy:
  • The first one was based on Toyland Adventures and titled Noddy LIVE, which toured the United Kingdom in 1994 and also combined elements of the original books. It was then released on home video after its' run.
  • The Noddy Shop had two shows of this kind, which were comprised of people singing musical numbers from the show. The first had the Non Singing Voices for Johnny Crawfish (Percy Travis III) and Gertie Gator (Paula Chavis) with Dennis Scott and a costumed Noddy character (whose voice was provided by Cindy Bandes Furman, also the singing voice of Island Princess), while the second show, performed at the 2000 Canadian National Exhibition, just featured an unknown female presenter and a Noddy costume character (still voiced by Furman) doing the songs.
  • Make Way For Noddy got one in 2005 also titled Noddy LIVE!, and also toured in Brazil and France, getting a soundtrack album in the latter country.
  • In France, Noddy In Toyland gained two French exclusive shows but used Sly and Gobbo's previous designs instead of their redesign for the 2009 incarnation. The first was "Oui-Oui El Le Cadeau Surprise" ("Noddy And The Surprise Gift") which honored the franchise' 60th anniversary which ran from 2009 till 2011. The second was "Oui-Oui Et Le Grand Carnaval" ("Noddy And The Big Carnaval" ) which ran from 2012 till 2013. The French live shows is notable for having some of the French voice actors (such as Noddy's french voice actress Brigitte Lecordier) reprising their roles. Both shows gained exclusive albums and released in DVD format.
  • Noddy, Toyland Detective was represented in the show Milkshake Live! The Magic Storybook.
• Thomas & Friends has had several of these made:
  • The first major tour that existed was held in arenas, and was titled The Big Live Tour or The All Aboard Live Tour, which was produced by DC Entertainment and Tell-Tale Productions that toured the UK from 2002-2006, and also toured Japan in 2005. These shows featured large model replicas of Thomas, Percy, and James (the latter of which won a Guinness World Record in 2004 for the largest electric model steam engine) that could move around on the track, blink and open their mouths. It was the first time characters had voice actors in the United Kingdom, with the voice cast being sourced from other productions by co-producer Tell-Tale Productions, including Justin Fletcher as Harold the Helicopter.
  • After that show ended, this trope was played straight with Thomas Saves the Day, which toured the United States in 2007, and returned in 2011. Other shows that followed this were A Circus Comes to Town, and the Asian-exclusive Thomas and the Hidden Treasure. These shows featured smaller moving models, although limited to Thomas and Percy due to movement limitations of the stage format.

Live-Action TV

• Sesame Street:
  • Sesame Street Live is the Trope Codifier, and one of the most popular real life examples of this trope. Created in 1980 by ex-Ice Follies staffer Vincent Egan's VEE Corporation^note Now VStar Entertainment, it is the longest-running of these shows, and even has been performed overseas to different-language-audio tracks to promote the many Sesame Street co-productions. Production shifted to Feld Entertainment in 2017, before switching to Round Room Live in 2023.
  • Outside of Sesame Street Live, traditional musicals based off the show have been done. Bert & Ernie, Goodnight!, produced by the Minneapolis Children's Theatre Company with support from Sesame Workshop and VEE Corporation, had a limited run in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area in 2009, and a traditional Sesame Street off-Broadway musical has been announced for a 2022 opening.
• Barney & Friends has had several stage shows around the world. Most of the U.S. tours (along with a one-off concert in Dallas (Barney in Concert) and a concert series in New York City (Barney Live! In New York City/Barney Live! At Radio City!), both taped for home video) were produced by Lyrick Studios/HIT Entertainment themselves, while the last U.S. tour (Birthday Bash!) was produced by VEE Corporation.
  • A number of Barney shows are exclusive to international markets, notably Asia and Latin America. Barney's Space Adventures, Barney's Musical Park, and Barney Rocks! Live in Concert (based on the namesake album) are just a few examples.
  • Barney Live! World Tour - A Celebration toured exclusively throughout the Middle East in 2015 and 2017, produced by Life Like Touring. Unlike most Barney shows, the voice cast don't reprise their roles.
• Even game shows have been turned into semi-live shows, for example The Price Is Right Live! in various casinos and Red Tail Entertainment's Double Dare Live!.
• The Ultra Series has spawned hundreds of live events, from original stage plays every year at the Ultraman Festival to in-character handshake events at shopping centres, smaller-scale plays on public stages to stand-up comedy. The larger productions can feature dozens of costumed heroes and monsters duking it out or even performing a dance routine.
• Samson En Gert has produced a yearly Live On Stage show since 1991. Adults that saw the earlier shows as kids are taking their kids now. It helps that it involves all the actual actors from the series itself.
• From the same studio behind Samson En Gert, Kabouter Plop has gained several Live On Stage shows since 2000 which introduced characters (such as Kabouter Flop) that were only found in numerous live shows. The shows toured in The Netherlands and Belgium. The Walloon incarnation "Lutin Plop" also gained a couple shows that only toured in Walloon regions of Belgium.
• Bassie & Adriaan did a series of on stage tours throughout The Netherlands in the 1980's, 90's and early 2000's.
• Tweenies had several touring shows in the United Kingdom, some of which were held after the show had ended production.
• Bananas in Pyjamas had one of these in 1994 in Australia. An album was released compiling songs from the show.
• Johnson and Friends had several live shows held in both Australia and Japan.
• The Big Comfy Couch had one by Koba Entertainment called Molly's Fool Moon Festival.
• Inai Inai Baa! has a series of live shows called Wan Wan Wonderland, which gained a TV spin-off that airs once a month on Sunday that sometimes shows clips from the stage shows.
• Okaasan to Issho has the Family Concert series, which occasionally airs on TV.
• Polka Dot Shorts got a live touring show in the United Kingdom.
• Bear in the Big Blue House had a live show called "Surprise Party", which adapted "Mouse Party". It was also created by VEE Entertainment.
• Yo Gabba Gabba! had a total of five live stage shows, one in particular adapting "A Very Awesome Christmas". These were more concert-based than story-driven, however.
• Odd Squad had Odd Squad Live!, which was directly produced by Fred Rogers Productions and Sinking Ship Entertainment.
• The Muppet Show had two of these premiere not long after ceasing its original run. Both of them were created by VEE Corporation. As for later Muppet inspired "live shows", those are more strictly concert based and feature the actual puppets instead of costumed performers.
• Fraggle Rock has one scheduled for 2025, produced by Daniel Tiger Live producers The Brad Simon Organization. It's anticipated that this show will be based primarily on the reboot's take on the franchise.

Music

• Alvin and the Chipmunks had two such shows produced in the 80's, one show produced in the 2000's, and another produced in 2015.
• An unique example occurs with Psycho le Cému, a Visual Kei band that is based entirely on Cosplay, making fictional characters of themselves based on Japanese Media and some non-Japanese Pop Culture references in their music videos. Saying this, all their concerts and other live appearances like interviews and invitations to Cosplay events (mostly in the USA) are with their costumes as they're seen in their videos. In their concerts, they change their cotumes like 3-4 times to make a full experience of their music and visual.

Networks

• ABC 4 Kids has had several stage shows combining several of the programmes broadcast on the network, mainly in the 90's.
• The BBC, specifically CBBC and CBeebies, has had several live shows, some of them even falling under the Pantomime label.
  • The 2006 live show Children's Party at the Palace, celebrating both the Queen's 80th birthday and over 100 years of children's literature in the UK, is perhaps the most notable. It is about several characters from well-known British children's literature going on a wild romp finding the Queen's Lost handbag so she can deliver her speech at the party.
• Cartoon Network had a show named Cartoonival that toured South East Asia in 2006 and Latin America in 2008. It was a Massive Multiplayer Crossover that had the main characters of Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls (1998), Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi trying to stop Mojo Jojo from taking over the titular carnival.
  • Another Cartoon Network live show made for Latin America was Amigos Invencibles (Unbeatable Friends), which was a crossover between Adventure Time, Steven Universe, The Powerpuff Girls (2016) and Ben 10 (2016).
• Disney Junior had three shows of this kind:
  • Disney Junior - Live on Stage!, which features a puppet show combining four of the most popular first-running shows at the time, centered around a Framing Device where Mickey Mouse and his friends plan a surprise birthday party for Minnie. This one played exclusively at Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney California Adventure for roughly a decade before getting replaced with Dance Party! mentioned below.
  • Pirate and Princess Adventure combined Jake And The Neverland Pirates and Sofia the First, and had a Doc McStuffins pre-show.
  • Dance Party! was more focused on the music of the shows that were featured rather than telling a story like the previous show.
• British Kids Block Milkshake! has had several live shows featuring characters from various programmes broadcast on it as well as the presenters from the block.
• Nick Jr. had two shows that combined all of the shows airing on the block. The first, Storytime Live!, centered on fairytale-based stories (adapting "Journey to Monkey King Castle" from Ni Hao, Kai-Lan, "Robin Hood the Clean" from The Backyardigans, "Adventures in Wonderland!" from Wonder Pets!, and "Dora's Fairytale Adventure" from Dora the Explorer), while the second, Move To The Music, was more music-centric.
• PBS Kids planned a combination live stage show and interactive experience called Really BIG Tiny Adventure that was ultimately cancelled.
• At one point in its early days, the MENA kids network Spacetoon produced a live show wherein characters from Pokémon: The Series and Conan Edogawa from Case Closed interacted with each other. The plot involved a Green Aesop, with Conan having to stop Team Rocket from polluting nature.

Toys

• Bratz had a stage show that toured the UK in 2007 called the Passion 4 Fashion World Tour. The plot involved the original main Bratz going on tour with a pop star named Zach Idol.
• Care Bears had a show of this kind performed in 2005.
• L.O.L. Surprise! was going to have a unique style of this show using live holograms of the characters presented on stage. It was originally set to begin touring in fall 2021, then was pushed to early 2022 due to COVID-19 concerns, then when that date came, it was announced to be cancelled altogether with no announcements of returning so far.
• My Little Pony had the following:
  • The World's Biggest Tea Party, which was produced by Vee for the G3 line from 2006 to 2008.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls had a show adapting the first two films and that performed in Mexico in 2015.
  • A show based on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic was supposed to tour in 2020, but was cancelled due to conflicts in scheduling.
• Shopkins had a live show produced by Koba Entertainment.
• Monster High has an upcoming live show scheduled to premiere in late 2023.
• Hot Wheels takes a page from Monster Jam's playbook with Hot Wheels: Monster Trucks Live. It's produced by Family Entertainment Live, and is what you'd expect...a monster truck rally themed to the Monster Trucks subline. Its proved successful enough to launch a franchise.

Video Games

• Mortal Kombat of all things received a stage show as part of a multimedia push of the franchise which also included a Saturday-Morning Cartoon, a live action TV series, a pair of movies, comic books, and almost every other form of media you can think of.
• Many, many unlicensed stage shows based on Five Nights at Freddy's, mainly the original quadrilogy, Sister Location, and Security Breach were performed during the late 2010s and early 2020s, with the bulk of them originating from Mexico. Apart from the costumes veering into the Unintentional Uncanny Valley with how poorly made they are, these shows often took artistic license with the plot, if not outright making it Lighter and Softer to appeal to a younger audience. In addition, many of them used fanmade FNaF songs (including the ones by The Living Tombstone) without paying royalties to the original artist.^note You had to pay in order to watch the show, which made this even more egregious.

Web Video

• Baby Shark Live! - with at least three English-language productions under the same name: the North American ones by Red Tail Entertainment in the U.S. and Koba Entertainment Group in Canada, and an Asian one featuring the original kids from the original video. A fourth tour by VStar Entertainment will open in 2024, known as Baby Shark's Big Broadwave Tour and based off the television show adapting the song.
• Cocomelon would receive a live show beginning in 2022. It is produced by New York based EMC Presents.
• YouTube duo Dan and Phil put on world tours: The Amazing Tour Is Not On Fire in 2015 and 2016, and Interactive Introverts in 2018. Dan also went on a solo tour in 2022 and early 2023 titled We're All Doomed.
• Popular YouTuber DanTDM had a live stage show in 2017.

Western Animation

• Dragon Tales had three live stage shows produced by VEE Corporation: Missing Music Mystery, The Riddle of Rainbow River and Journey To Crystal Cave.
• The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has the Coming Out of Their Shells tour, wherein the Turtles formed a rock band and preached against violence.
• Phineas and Ferb had Phineas And Ferb: The Best Live Tour Ever, which provides the page image. This one is pretty notable for its rather uncanny costumes.
• PJ Masks had at least 3 live-shows: PJ Masks Live, PJ Masks Live!: Time To Be A Hero, which toured the United States in 2017 - 2018, and PJ Masks Live!: Save The Day, which started touring in 2019. The latter two are musicals.
• PAW Patrol has two shows of this type: Race To The Rescue and The Great Pirate Adventure. The former was lucky enough to have a pro-shot released on Paramount+, which is an absolute rarity for these sorts of shows in the modern era.
• Peppa Pig has several live shows that utilize puppet versions of the characters rather than full-sized costumes. All shows were however accompanied by a human woman who serves as the narrator.
• Muppet Babies (1984) had three shows produced by VEE Entertainment.
• SpongeBob SquarePants had a live show adapting The Sponge Who Could Fly which toured in Southeast Asia, the UK, Spain and Mexico. The SpongeBob Musical is a more traditional Screen-to-Stage Adaptation.
• Shaun the Sheep had Shaun's Big Show, a live show mainly consisting of the characters dancing to music.
• Fireman Sam has seen quite a few shows:
  • The first, and most infamous one was called Fireman Sam In Action that was comprised of three acts. It was also released to home video with an additional segment where the actor who played Sam, Gary Lucas, visited kids in a park.
  • The show has also seen many stage shows including Fireman Sam on Stage which toured to celebrate the show's 20th anniversary and was also released on DVD, Pontypandy Rocks!, and the current show Saves the Circus.
• Dora the Explorer had two of these, both adapting episodes: Search For The Lost City of Toys and Dora's Pirate Adventure. Its spinoff, Go, Diego, Go!, followed suit by adapting "The Great Jaguar Rescue".
• Rugrats had Rugrats: A Live Adventure, which told the story of Tommy and an invention called the People-ator, which can bring objects to life.
• The Backyardigans had two shows of this type. The first, The Backyardigans Live!, was a retelling of "Tale Of The Mighty Knights", while the second, Sea Deep In Adventure, was exclusive to Canada.
• Caillou had the Canada-exclusive Caillou's Greatest Skate Of All, which was a Christmas-themed show.
• Blue's Clues had at least two shows of this type. The most famous of the two was Blue's Birthday Party Live!, which had two versions — one hosted by Steve and one hosted by Joe. Another, Blue's Clues Live!: The Most Spectacular Place, was made available as a script for regional theater groups, being staged well into The New '10s. Blue's Birthday Party Live! also had a version of its script made available to theater groups, with the theater group version being staged into the 2010s as well.
  • Come 2022, a spiritual successor was launched based on the show's revival, Blue's Clues & You!.
• Bubble Guppies had one produced by Vee Entertainment called Ready to Rock!.
• Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood had two shows like this: Neighbor Day and King Daniel For The Day.
• The Fairly Oddparents had a live show produced in Spain and another one for Latin America.
• Animaniacs Live! is a concert musical live show that made its first appearance in MomoCon in 2014 and since 2016; Rob Paulsen (the voice of Yakko and Pinky), Randy Rogel (one of the Animaniacs songwriters), Jess Harnell (the voice of Wakko), and Tress MacNeille (the voice of Dot) have toured in various theaters in many states of the USA, performing songs from the original Animaniacs along with occasionally set along cued up clips and a full orchestra.
• Scooby-Doo had one called Scooby-Doo and the Lost City of Gold.
  • Before Lost City of Gold, Scooby-Doo had a few other live stage shows since the early 2000s. The first was Scooby-Doo in Stagefright from 2001 that went all-out in referencing the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! series (and had Scooby portrayed by an actor in a very tight form-fitting Scooby-Doo suit. Then in the late 2000s came Scooby-Doo and the Pirate Ghost, which was exclusive to countries outside of North America. Then 2013 brought Scooby-Doo! Live Musical Mysteries that was more or less a Lighter and Softer adaptation of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated that also had the gang playing in a band. Shortly after was the Europe-exclusive Scooby-Doo and the Mystery of the Pyramid.
• VeggieTales has had many live shows throughout the years. Some of them were performed at theme parks, while others were performed at churches.
• Postman Pat had a bunch of these, including ones based off of the Special Delivery Service series, such as "A Very Royal Mission" in 2010.
• Studio 100: Beginning in 2015, the company begun adapting some of their animated children's shows into live-action format that were exclusively shown in Flemish regions of Belgium.
  • Vicky the Viking gained a musical stage show called "Wickie de Musical" which was shown in Belgium and The Netherlands.
  • On October 2016, Studio 100 created a musical based on the 2011 Maya the Bee series called "Maya en de Pollenbollen" ("Maya and the Pollen Bulbs") starring Maya, Willy, Flip, Beatrice, and Thekla. The musical involved Maya, Flip, and Beatrice planning a surprised birthday party for Willy. However, the musical was only shown in the Flemish regions of Belgium. The same musical later had its second run in the Fall of 2017. Maya's Flemish voice actress managed to reprise her role as the titular character for the stage show and showed up at Studio 100's annual "De Grote Sinterklaas Show" beginning in 2016 and seasonal events at Plopsaland De Panne, Plopsa Indoor Hasselt, and Plopsa Coo.
• Alfred J. Kwak: While the 1989 animated series was already based on a theatrical show of the same name. The animated series gained two musical stage shows which combined the 1987 comic series with the animated show.
  • The first was "Verboden To Lachen" in 2002 narrated by series creator Herman Van Veen and other performers and musicians. The show later gained a DVD release in 2003 in The Netherlands.
  • The second Alfred J Kwak en de Sneeuwvlok which ran from 2017 till 2018 and gained a book adaptation. This show was only performed at the DeLaMar Theatre.
• Peg + Cat got a stage show in 2019 that was based on the episode "The Big Dog Problem".
• Super Why! had a stage show called You've Got the Power in 2012.
• Wild Kratts has two stage shows, starring the Kratts themselves. The cartoon-only characters are shown on a screen.
• Dinosaur Train got a stage show called Buddy's Big Adventure.
• ThunderCats (1985) had one in 1987. It also featured some characters from The Comic Strip as well as an odd appearance by Gumby and Pokey.
• Bugs Bunny had a couple billing his own name from the late 1970s to the early '80s. These shows also starred various DC Comics characters such as Batman, Robin, even Wonder Woman.
• Doug: From 1999 to 2001, Doug Live! was a stage show performed at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Orlando m, Florida. It was a musical adaptation of the Disney series, with original songs and plot elements taken from the Nickelodeon series, the most glaring of which being Roger's outfit taken straight from the Nick series rather than the Disney series.
• Ben 10 got a show in the UK titled Ben 10 Monster Truck Mania. It was unique in that it was basically a monster truck show with Ben 10-themed trucks. Notably, Doug Noelke, who ran the Humungousaur truck on his Big Dawg chassis, would later re-use part of the Humungousaur mold for the truck's new alter-ego, Smashosaurus.
  • The series also got a live show in Latin America named La Batalla por el Omnitrix (The Battle for the Omnitrix).
• Gravity Falls had a stage show in Mexico that was ridiculed by fans of the actual TV series. Because unlike many examples here, this show was an unlicensed production. Campiness ensued, and even creator Alex Hirsch replied in response "Hell is real and we have footage."
• Bluey got a stage show in 2020 called Bluey's Big Play, where the characters are represented onstage by human-sized puppets being performed to a vocal track recorded by the show's cast. It first toured Australia in 2020 and did a US tour in 2022-23.
• Rocket Power has Maximum Rocket Power Live: The Battle For Madtown Park, a live-action extreme-sports dramatic arena play that briefly toured the U.S. Midwest in spring 2002.
• In 2023, Dino Ranch was supposed to get one of these shows, but it got postponed to 2024.

Other

• Playhouse Disney / Disney Junior:
  • Three of the Disney Theme Parks had a show called Playhouse Disney - Live on Stage! which consisted of sketches based off several Playhouse Disney shows. The original show led off with Bear in the Big Blue House and then traveled through the worlds of Rolie Polie Olie, Stanley, and The Book of Pooh. The show went through regular retools to replace cancelled shows with newer shows, as well as rebranding to Disney Junior - Live On Stage! in 2011 to match Playhouse Disney's rebranding. It was replaced with Disney Junior Dance Party in 2017.
  • There was also Playhouse Disney: Live on Tour, which as the name indicates was a tour across America. The plot of the show was that the characters from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, My Friends Tigger & Pooh, Little Einsteins, and Handy Manny were throwing a music party. Unlike Live on Stage, Live on Tour used full-body costumes instead of puppets.
  • There was also Playhouse Disney Live!, which toured shopping malls. The show was hosted by Tony and Vivian from Out of the Box, and featured Bear from Bear in the Big Blue House, the titular trio from PB&J Otter (represented as puppets) and Olie & Zowie from Rolie Polie Olie (represented by full-body costumes), among others.
  • The UK version of Playhouse Disney had at least three shopping centre tours from 2001-2003. They were quite similar to the US tours but featured Dave and Alex as hosts, with Sara-Louise hosting a live version of the Art Play segment. The 2003 version toured more locations, but as Alex was busy with other work she was replaced with then-new presenter Olivia (who replaced Sara-Louise on Art Play itself).
• HIT Entertainment had a show entitled The Little Big Club - Live in Concert, featuring several of their shows including Thomas & Friends, Barney & Friends, and Bob the Builder. This show toured in parts of Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. A subsequent Spanish adaptation toured Mexico and Central America.
• Disney itself had "Disney on Parade" from 1969 to 1974, which featured Disney characters on stage in various skits and escapades. This would later be reshaped into Disney on Ice a decade later.
  • History ultimately repeats itself, as "Disney On Ice" producers Feld Entertainment would later launch the similar "Disney Live". Said shows were very similar to "Disney on Parade", but also featured more emphasis on post 1988 Disney Animated Canon releases, and even a few Pixar films. The tours began in 2004 and operated as a sister component to "On Ice" until abruptly being axed in 2018.
• There was a Pucca live stage show called Pucca LIVE! that only toured Latin America.
• The Peanuts franchise had Snoopy's World of Magic that briefly toured at the tail end of 1989 only. It featured Snoopy performing magic tricks on the Peanuts characters, from levitation to teleportation to even unusual illusions such as flattering Charlie Brown and shooting him at a target and he emerges back as a normal formation. A brand new "remade" show using the same idea would be performed as "Snoopy's Magnificent Magical Revue" at Knott's Berry Farm.
• A Toronto-based studio known as Tanglewood Family Entertainment (now known as Koba Entertainment) may have created the most bizarre crossover of characters in a single production ever. It was titled "Family Favorites Live", and features the likes of Garfield, Franklin, Mona the Vampire, The Big Comfy Couch, Zoboomafoo, Caillou, and Tony The Tiger. There's sadly little to no evidence of this event beyond a local promo.
• Milkshake, Channel 5's early morning preschool block has had a number of these. Initially they were just simple shows with costumed characters of characters featured on the channel, but beginning with the "Party Party" tour, they have included a rotation of two of the strand's presenters.
• CBeebies had four tours from 2005-2008, and four more in 2012-2015, although the 2013 and 2015 tours were branded as "C Beebies Live Presents Justin and Friends" tours. The initial run of shows toured during Christmas, while the 2010's era run toured during the Easter holidays. A common trope of these is that they'd all end with the S Club 7 song "Reach".

In-Universe Examples

• In the Arthur episode "Play It Again, D.W.", D.W. has four tickets to Crazy Bus Live. Arthur doesn't want to go, but D.W. tells him that it's only fair; she had to go to Bionic Bunny on Ice when Arthur wanted to go.
• The Critic episode "A Little Deb Will Do Ya" has a subplot involving Jay's rivalry with time slot competitor Humphrey the Hippo (a subtle No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Barney the Dinosaur). One establishing shot sees an advertisement for Humphrey's Madison Square Garden event "The Hug-In" getting plastered over with a "Sold Out" banner (likely a nod to Barney's own sold-out concerts at Radio City Music Hall).

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