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Neighbours – The 40th Anniversary Tour

2025 theatre production

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ133284038 ↗
Source-derived summary

Neighbours – The 40th Anniversary Tour was a 2025 British touring theatre production about the Australian soap opera Neighbours. The tour was a successor to 2023's "Neighbours - The Celebration Tour". It was created to celebrate the show's fortieth anniversary. It was produced by Maple Tree Entertainments and licensed by Fremantle. The show was presented by Leah Boleto throughout its run.

The show's concept incorporates several Neighbours cast members being interviewed about the show by a host speaker. The cast share personal stories, perform musical numbers and perform a theatrical performance. The cast also take part in an interactive question and answer session. Meet and greet sessions with fans were also held at each venue. The tour began on 3 February 2025 at Symphony Hall in Birmingham and concluded at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester on 18 February 2025.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Neighbours – The 40th Anniversary Tour” as 2025 theatre production. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Neighbours, 40th and Anniversary can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2025 theatre production. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q133284038. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2025 and 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “Neighbours – The 40th Anniversary Tour” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.