Noddy (character) scene and costume designs by Susie Calcutt. The original cast included Eric Potts as Big Ears and Karen Briffett as Noddy. The show was very well received among critics, audiences and even Enid Blyton's daughter Gillian Baverstock. David Wood adapted a successful sequel to the play entitled "Noddy and the Tootle" which opened at the Wimbledon Theatre and endured on a long UK National Tour in 1995–1996. Karen Briffett reprised her role as Noddy and Big Ears was played by Jonathan Broxholme. This production was too presented by Clarion Productions. The characters returned between September 2002 and January 2004 for
Tom Noddy Europe and other parts of the world (Abu Dhabi in November, 2011). In August 2011, he featured in the BBC-TV programme "The Code", presented by mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, where he demonstrated the ability of bubbles to form minimal surface structures. Tom Noddy Tom Noddy is the stage name of an American entertainer whose television performances of Bubble Magic in the early 1980s led to a book deal and Bubble Festivals at science centers all across America. In the early 1980s Noddy first performed his original demonstration of skills with soap bubbles on American television's That's Incredible! and Johnny Carson's