Thomas Saves the Day (Live Show)

Thomas Saves the Day was a live stage show produced by HiT Entertainment and ThemeStar Entertainment Group in 2007. The show toured again in 2008 and 2011.

Plot
A large windstorm has passed the night before the annual Magic Lantern Festival. Trees have fallen on the main line, the decorations have been damaged and Farmer McColl's sheep are loose due to the fencing being blown down. Thomas and Percy set out to clean up the mess while Sir Topham Hatt shows his grandson Stephen Hatt around the yard and consults Mrs. Martin, the schoolteacher who is in charge of the festival. Sir Topham Hatt reveals that he will choose an engine to pull a special truck loaded with fireworks, balloons at the festival. Diesel then comes out of his shed and complains about the noise, but quickly leaves when the storm returns. The wind knocks over the large reflective light in the lighthouse, causing several ships to crash.

Meanwhile, Percy is delivering coal trucks when his driver notices that a sheep has escaped from Farmer McColl's farm. Percy blows his whistle to try and get the sheep back to the farm. Thomas meets Percy on his way back to the sheds and Percy promises to meet Thomas at the sheds after he delivers the trucks. As Thomas is almost back to the sheds, he and his driver hear an awful noise. It turns out to be some children, practising their marching band routine. They say that their boat crashed on the way to Sodor and their instruments were damaged, so Thomas agrees to take the instruments to the repair shop, despite knowing he will be late back to the sheds if he does.

When the two engines return, Sir Topham Hatt sees that they are overworked and decides to split up the work by having Diesel pull Percy's coaches for the day. He then asks Thomas and Percy to collect stones from the quarry to repair the viaduct.

At the quarry, Thomas and Percy are preparing to take the stones to the viaduct while their drivers and the quarry workers explain to them the legend of a lost diamond mine, which everyone brushes off rather quickly. Percy goes onto an old turntable, which breaks, causing him to spin out of control and break the barrier to a boarded-up mine shaft. Thomas warns him about some falling rocks and he reverses into the mine right as a rockslide occurs.

Thomas moves the rock, but Percy's coupling hook is missing. They go into the mine and not only do they find the coupling hook, but they learn that they are actually in the lost diamond mine from the legend. Percy's driver finds a huge diamond to fix the lighthouse light, which Thomas agrees to deliver. He and Percy race each other back to the sheds, where Sir Topham, Stephen and Mrs. Martin begin hanging lanterns. Thomas takes the diamond to the lighthouse, returns with the special truck and the Lantern Festival commences as everyone cheers on Thomas for saving the day.

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Percy
 * Diesel
 * A Troublesome Truck
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Stephen Hatt
 * Children's Marching Band
 * Mrs. Martin
 * Harold
 * Gordon
 * James
 * Emily
 * Harvey
 * Farmer McColl

Locations

 * Tidmouth Sheds
 * Elsbridge
 * Dryaw
 * The Lost Diamond Mine
 * Sodor Slate Quarry
 * The Railway Works
 * Sodor Steamworks

2007 Performers

 * Michael Bojtos as Thomas' driver and Diesel's operator

UK voice actors

 * Nigel Lister as Thomas, Percy, Diesel and A Troublesome Truck

UK Performers

 * Nigel Lister as The Narrator
 * Dean Nolan as Sir Topham Hatt
 * Sandy Batchelor as Thomas' driver and Diesel's operator
 * Jonathan Deardan as Percy's driver and a Bandboy
 * Amanda-Jane Short as Theodore's mother and an unnamed lady
 * Daniel Summers as Theodore, an unnamed boy and a Bandboy
 * Róisín Magee as Mrs. Martin, a Bandgirl, a railway driver and a quarry worker

2008 Canada tour voice actors

 * Jeffrey Mark Pierce as Thomas, Percy, Diesel and A Troublesome Truck

2008 Canada tour performers

 * Jeffrey Mark Pierce as The Narrator
 * Swaine Kaui as Sir Topham Hatt
 * Michael Bojtos as Thomas' driver and Diesel's operator
 * Ricky Whitfield as Percy's driver and a Bandboy
 * Katie Cortez as Theodore's mother and an unnamed lady
 * Kyle Garvin as Theodore, an unnamed boy and a Bandboy
 * Andrea Kovelman as Mrs. Martin, a Bandgirl, a railway driver and a quarry worker
 * Andrea Kovelman as Mrs. Martin, a Bandgirl, a railway driver and a quarry worker

2011 Toronto tour voice actors

 * Joel Frank as Thomas, Percy, Diesel and A Troublesome Truck

2011 Toronto tour performers

 * Shaun Rice as Sir Topham Hatt
 * Brendan Malafronte as Thomas' driver
 * Ricky Whitfield as Percy's driver and a Marching Band boy
 * Katie Cortez as an engine driver, a Marching Band girl, a quarry worker, and Mrs. Martin
 * Martin Sherman as Stephen Hatt and a Marching Band boy

Korean Performers and voice actors

 * Kim Do-shin as Narrator
 * Hong Kwan-pyo as Thomas and Thomas' Driver
 * Lee Ji-soo as Sir Topham Hatt
 * Seo Tae-yi as Percy and Percy's Driver
 * Shin Geum-sook as Mother
 * Kim Yu-mi as Children
 * Park Eun-hee as Mrs. Martin
 * Kim Yung-hun as

Act 1

 * Thomas' Anthem
 * Another Busy Day On the Engines
 * Every Day's A Special Day On Sodor
 * Surprises
 * Ode To Gordon
 * It's Great to be an Engine
 * Sounds
 * Sir Topham Hatt

Act 2

 * Really Useful Engine
 * Friendship Will Light The Way (Night Train (different lyrics))
 * Let's Have a Race
 * Engine Roll Call
 * Determination
 * Finale (Thomas' Anthem and Really Useful Engine (reprise))

Trivia

 * Martin Sherman, who voiced Thomas, Percy and Diesel until after the eighteenth series when Joseph May, Christopher Ragland and Kerry Shale took over the respective roles, played Stephen Hatt in some of the later performances of the show.
 * In 2008, the engines were all given moving mouths to reflect the then-recent switch to CGI faces. Prior to this, only their eyes moved.
 * Originally, Thomas and Diesel were supposed to be the two functioning engines, and Percy and James would be essentially half engines, and simply roll in and out of the sheds, similar to how Gordon appeared in the All Aboard Live Tour. For some reason, James was cut from the show, and it was decided that Percy would be the functioning engine instead of Diesel. For A Circus Comes to Town and Thomas and the Hidden Treasure, Gordon and James were both designed in this manner.
 * At one point, Diesel tells Thomas “See ya later, rattler!”, referencing the ninth series episode Respect for Gordon.
 * Diesel is never shown coming all the way out of the sheds; he simply rolls in and out. This is likely due to budgetary constraints preventing the creation of a third full engine in addition to Thomas and Percy. However, in between scenes, he switches berths to give the illusion that he has moved.
 * The show underwent a number of minor revisions between the 2007-2008 run and the 2011 run.
 * The 2007-2008 version features an on-stage narrator, reading the show’s story from a book, who was removed for the 2011 version.
 * The unnamed boy and his mother were replaced with Stephen Hatt in the 2011 version.
 * The 2007-2008 version featured tunnels on both sides of the stage through which the engines would enter and exit the scene, similar to in the All Aboard Live Tour. These were removed for the 2011 run, having also been absent from the prior run of A Circus Comes To Town.
 * In the 2007-2008 version, while the Narrator and Sir Topham Hatt worry about the festival, the unnamed boy (in front of the audience) cries loudly, and gives some members of the audience hugs. Due to audience concerns, this was replaced in the 2011 version with the "Sir Topham Hatt" song, sung by Stephen Hatt.
 * During the show's tour in Japan, the unnamed boy was replaced with an unnamed girl.
 * In the 2007 version, Sir Topham Hatt sends Thomas and Percy to the quarry as punishment for being late. In the 2011 version, he is slightly upset (but not angry) that they are late, but still sends them to the quarry to help out
 * The Korean CD also includes It's Great to Be an Engine, Sounds and Engine Roll Call official instrumentals.

Goofs

 * On one of the signalboxes, Elsbridge is misspelt as "Ellsbridge". This problem has happened with the Wooden Railway model.
 * Diesel does not have front cab windows.
 * Diesel is missing his siderods.
 * Thomas' lamp is out of place as it is behind his lamp iron.
 * In some performances, the mouth movements of Percy and Thomas do not match some of their lip sync or dialogue.
 * Thomas and Percy are both missing their stepladders.
 * The SBS news team was confused about the people who did Sir Topham Hatt from the live show, and they wrote subtitles for the interview video that Kim Do-shin did Sir Topham Hatt from the live show but Lee Ji-su did that role in South Korea.