Pantomime Archive
2012
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Beauty & the Beast
Bridlington: The Spa
18 December 2012 - 06 January 2013
Following on from last year’s record breaking giant pantomime, a true beast of a production with the beauty of a magical story is set to dazzle and delight audiences of all ages.
A host of colourful characters will entertain; from the outrageous Madame Fifi, Gaston, the macho medallion man who makes hearts flutter, Professor Crackpot and his crazy inventions, Pierre the pantomime comic and of course, the wicked Witch Hazel who has cast a spell over the Count of Christi Monto, turning him into a mean and menacing beast.
Only the true love of our heroine Beauty can break the witch’s spell and deliver a happy ever after ending in pantoland!
Craig Phillips (Big Brother winner, 60 Minute Makevover): Gaston
Simon Grant (CBBC): Pierre
Ian Parkin (Four Poofs & a Piano): Madame Fifi
Gary Tushaw: Count of Christi Monto / Beast
Lisa Kelsey: Beauty
Maurice Thorogood: Professor Crackpot
Apphia Adomakoh: Witch Hazel
with Collette Tyler School of Dance
Director: Maurice Thorogood
Choreographer: Nicky Sweeney
Musical Director: Bill Hayton
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Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs
Broxbourne: Civic Hall
14 December 2012 - 05 January 2013
Simply wicked, simply wonderful, simply must be seen!
And there's seven other reason's why Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs is the pantomime to dwarf all others!
Huge helpings of laughter with a generous serving of traditional pantomime audience participation, mixed with stunning scenery, spectacular costumes, a dashing prince and the fairest Snow White of all. Add in seven dwarfs full of mischief and merriment, sprinkle with lots of Woodland Fairy magic dust and then sit back and enjoy for just over two hours.
Denise Nolan (The Nolans): Wicked Queen
John Wilding (The X Factor): Prince Valiant
Ross Lee (BBCs The Pranker): Herman the Henchman
Michael Otton: Pickles
Keith 'appy Hopkins: Dame Kitty Dumpling
Victoria Scott: Snow White
Nikki Ionescu: Woodland Fairy
Marius Ionescu: Wolf
with The Valle Academy
Director: Matthew Ashforde
Choreographer Nick Michelle Davlin
Musical Director: Lloyd Morris
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Cinderella
Catford: Broadway Theatre
15 December 2012 - 06 January 2013
As the Broadway Theatre celebrates its 80th Anniversary, it's fitting and proper that the most charming panto of them all should finish the celebrations will a ball!
Floella Benjamin (Children's TV Legend): Fairy Godmother
Andrew Hayden-Smith (CBBC & Dr.Who): Buttons
John Lyons (A Touch of Frost): Baron Hardup
Suzanne David: Cinderella
Graeme Kinniburgh: Prince Charming
Stephen Richards & Duncan McCann: Ugly Sisters
James Dangerfield: Dandini
Rianna Dawkins
Fletcher Dobinson
Claire Power
Maisie Seltzer-Eade
Carl Taylor
Amy Thomas
Director: Debbie Flitcroft
Choreographer: Kevin Archbold
Musical Director: Steven Geraghty
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Jack & the Beanstalk
Chesterfield: The Pomegranate
07 December 2012 - 06 January 2013
Jack & the Beanstalk has all the ingredients of a mouth watering feast of fun, frivolity and festive cheer served with spectacular scenery, colourful costumes, creative choreography and accompanied by live music and a huge side dish of slapstick!
Charlie Dimmock (Ground Force): Organic Fairy
Rik Gaynor: Muddles
Andy Steed (The X Factor): Jack Trott
Rob Stevens: Dame Trott
Natalie Law: Princess Amelia
Andrew Haynes: King Crumble
Gareth Davies: Fleshcreep
Phil Price: Giant
Daisy the Cow as herself
Joshua Ayles
Katie Champion
Jasmine Gunn
Phoebe Henderson
Amy King
Daniel Waite
Director: Colin Blumenau
Choroeographer: Taira Foo
Musical Director: Lee Freeman
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The Pantomime Adventure of Peter Pan
Derby: Assembly Rooms
05 December 2012 - 06 January 2013
Do you believe in fairies?
We’ll have you hooked this Christmas as we fly from the rooftops of London to Never Land in this magical pantomime adventure with Peter Pan.
A land of pirates, Indians and mermaids awaits our hero and the Darling children as they take on the caustic Captain Hook and his side-kick Smee. Will Peter and the fairy Tinkerbell be able to out wit and out fly the mighty Hook as they attempt to rescue Wendy, Peter and Michael from the Jolly Roger?
Or will they be left walking the plank?
Larry Lamb (EastEnders, Gavin & Stacey): Captain Hook
George Sampson (Mount Pleasant, Waterloo Road, Britain's Got Talent winner): Peter Pan
Mike 'Squeaky' McClean: Smee
Jason Sutton: Dame Able Mabel
Carys Gray: Mrs Darling
Sarah Thatcher: Wendy
Phil Green: Cecco
Hanna Dicker
Liam Larkin
Alexandra Macmillan
Daniel Mallinder
Joseph Maycock
Nicola Peterson
Directors: Keith & Ben Simmons
Choreographer Robert Wheeler
Musical Director Ben Wiles
(By arrangement with Great Ormond Street Children’s Charity & Samuel French)
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Jack & the Beanstalk
Leeds: The Carriageworks
30 November 2012 - 05 January 2013
Following the success of last year’s Beauty & the Beast, PHA are returning to the Carriageworks to deliver a giant of a production guaranteed to leave audiences full of beans! It's an action packed adventure that will take audiences from the village of Sunnyvale to the giant kingdom of Cloudland via a beanstalk!
Jez Edwards (CBBC): Simple Simon
Marshall Lancaster (Dr. Who, Ashes to Ashes, Life on Mars): Fleshcreep
Allan Jay: Jack Trott
Janine Pardo: Princess Amelia
Barry North: Dame Trott
International Illusionists The Renleah Experience: Organic Fairy & King Crumble
Oliver Green: Giant
Daisy the Cow as herself
with SLP College & Junior Academy
Director: Matthew Ashforde
Choreographer: Hayley-Jane Simmons
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Aladdin
Lowestoft: The Marina
18 December 2012 - 06 January 2013
Fasten you seat belts for a magical ride of mystery, sparkling romance and dazzling adventure with this year’s lavish production at the Marina Theatre, where you can escape to a world of magic, where adventure beckons on a pantomime flight of spectacle, slapstick and song!
Nigel Pivaro (Coronation Street): Abanazar
Mike Newman Jnr: Wishee Washee
Christopher Stone (Britain's Got Talent): Emperor Chop-Suey
Simon Howe: Widow Twankey
Matt Brinkler: Aladdin
Ellie Stevenson: Princess Jasmime
Kelly Sims: Slave of the Ring
William Elliott: Genie
Sam Humphries: PC Pong
Sam Johnson: PC Ping
with June Glennie School of Dance
Director: David Samuel
Choreographer: Kelly Sims
Musical Director: Matthew Reeve
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Beauty & the Beast
Newark: Palace Theatre
12 December 2012 - 06 January 2013
Let us take you through the mists of time to the countryside of France where evil creatures are ruled over by the vile and villainous Witch Hazel who has cast a spell on the Count of Christi Monto.
Reduced to living life as a retched beast, the Count hides away growing even more mean, moody and menacing. Only the true love of our heroine Beauty can break the spell and release the Beast to provide us with a happy ever after pantomime ending.
Bernie Clifton (Comedy Legend): Professor Crackpot
John Pickard (Two Point Four Children, Hollyoaks): Pierre
Helen Jeckells: Witch Hazel
Naomi Slater: Beauty
Richard Hurst: Count of Cristi Monto/Beast
James Cohen: Gaston
Oliver Fabian: Louis
Daniel Breakwell
Tom Bristow
with Tozer Dance Studio
Director: Peter Dayson
Choreographer: Helen Jeckells
Musical Director: Matt Marks
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Cinderella
Redhill: Harlequin Theatre
14 December 2012 - 06 January 2013
A pumpkin magically transformed into a sparkling coach, mice into white horses and a girl goes from rags to a stunning ball gown all with the wave of a good fairy’s wand. Glass slippers and a spell that breaks when the clock chimes midnight, can only mean one thing!
The classic rags to riches fairy tale will be brought bang up to date with a couple of dastardly divas dishing out moody meanness as Ugly Sisters but with a Fairy Godmother on stand by and everyone's best friend Buttons on hand, perhaps Cinder's will find true love and happiness in the arms of a handsome, charming Prince!
Andrea McLean (Loose Women): Fairy Godmother
LLoyd Daniels (The X Factor): Prince Charming
Francis & Wheatley (Comedy Duo): Baron & Buttons
Abigail Welford: Cinderella
Dean Horner & Oliver Gray: Lavinia & Louisa
Ezra Tafari: Dandini
Alex Woolf
Lukens Shetland Ponies
Director: Mark Piper
Choreographer: Felicity Butler
Musical Director: Colin Billing
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Peter Pan the Pantomime
Rickmansworth: Watersmeet
07 December 2012 - 31 December 2012
Simply spectacular. Simply stunning. Simply has to be seen! It’s the pantomime adventure of pirates, mermaids and Indians, where audiences will be taken on a magical flight from the rooftops of London to Never Land.
Madness and mayhem abound in this pantomime version of the classic tale of good battling evil and it’s guaranteed to have audiences of all ages hooked!
Chris Ellison (ITVs The Bill, Burnside): Captain Hook
Peter John: Dame Able Mabel
Craig Daniel Adams: Peter Pan
Adam Kelly: Smee
Janine Cowell: Wendy
Clare Kennedy: Tiger Lily
with The Maria Anderson School of Dance
Director: Adrian Jeckells
Choreographer: Clare Kennedy
Musical Director: David Barber
(By arrangement with Great Ormond Street Children’s Charity & Samuel French)
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Cinderella
Telford: Oakengates Theatre @The Place
07 December 2012 - 31 December 2012
A pumpkin magically transformed into a sparkling coach, mice into white horses and a girl goes from rags to a stunning ball gown all with the wave of a good fairy’s wand. Glass slippers and a spell that breaks when the clock chimes midnight, can only mean one thing!
The classic rags to riches fairy tale will be brought bang up to date with a couple of dastardly divas dishing out moody meanness but with a Fairy Godmother on stand by and everyone's best friend Buttons on hand, perhaps Cinder's will find true love and happiness in the arms of a handsome, charming Prince!
Camilla Dallerup (Strictly Come Dancing): Fairy Godmother
Mark Two & Jamie Steen: Ravishing Rita & Wicked Wanda
Ricky K: Buttons
Ian Billings: Baron Hardup
Dean Read: Prince Charming
Lucy Pollard: Cinderella
Marcus Evans: Dandini
Samuel Hopkins
Craig Joseph
Director: Ian Billings
Choreographer: Jane Webb
Musical Director: Benjamin Holder
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Sleeping Beauty
Weston-super-Mare: The Playhouse
13 December 2012 - 06 January 2013
Evil forces are at play in this far from sleepy production of the classic fairytale as we discover what happens when a fairy is scorned and a kingdom sleeps for one hundred years. It's a dream of a pantomime full of X factor and will leave audiences in a spin!
Lorraine Chase (Emmerdale, I'm a Celebrity...): Fairy Carabosse
Same Difference (The X Factor): Lilac Fairy & Prince Valiant
Simmons & Simmons: King & Chamberlain
Terry Gleed: Muddles
Adam Daye: Nurse Katie Cough-Drop
Beth Gore: Princess Aurora
Sally Frith
Adam Ludwell
Lauren McCabe
Stephen Nylan
Amy Louise Tanner
Bethany Walsh
with Tina Counsell School of Dance & Drama
Directors: Keith & Ben Simmons
Choreographer: Hayley-Jane Simmons
Musical Director: Paul Woolley
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Sleeping Beauty
Worthing: Connaught Theatre
07 December 2012 - 05 January 2013
Evil forces are at play in this far from sleepy production of the classic fairy tale story of Princess Aurora – the girl who pricks her finger on a spinning wheel and falls asleep for 100 years!
It’s a true, traditional pantomime battle of good over evil, with the conniving, calculating Fairy Carabosse concocting spells and potions in a bid to out do the loveable Lilac Fairy.
Nurse Katy Cough Drop will be delivering a dame sized performance as she prescribes laughter and comedy for all the family and a handsome hero from lands far away will be searching for his princess in this panto tale that’s everything but sleepy!
Jon Moses (ITVs Superstar): Prince Valiant
Bobby Crush (Britain's top piano playing Dame): Nurse Katie Cough-Drop
Nikki Kelly (Hi-de-Hi): Fairy Carabosse
Tony Rudd (Comedy Impressionist): Muddles
Sophie Bloom: Princess Aurora
Peter Jamieson: King Crumble
Helen Peters: Lilac Fairy
James Donaghey
With Glendale Theatre Arts School
Director: David Samuel
Choreographer: Kelly Sims
Musical Director: Marc Yarrow