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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Rickmansworth: Watersmeet

11 December 2009 to 03 January 2010

Kim Hartman ("'Allo 'Allo!")
Richard Grieve
Michael Otton (International Illusionist)
Mark Hastings
Sarah Accomando
Angelina Riley
Grant Neal
David Spence

Director Matthew Ashforde
Musical director Simon Townley
Choreographed by Louise Travis

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Reviews

Kim Hartman's Wicked Queen excels

Scott Matthewman, The Stage - 21 December 2009

The importance of warming up a panto audience is highlighted by Rickmansworth's latest rendition of Snow White, where the first act played out to a crowd seemingly unable to give anything back to the onstage cast… Read more...

Well worth a visit...with or without the children

Neil Skinner, Watford Observer - 24 December 2009

Snow White and the Seven Dwards at Watersmeet is far from an original production; the jokes are well-worn and the story line known to all… Read more...

Kim Hartman's Wicked Queen excels

Scott Matthewman, The Stage

21 December 2009

The importance of warming up a panto audience is highlighted by Rickmansworth's latest rendition of Snow White, where the first act played out to a crowd seemingly unable to give anything back to the onstage cast.

Exuberant efforts to engage the audience at the top of the second act may have been a reaction to their previous quiteness, but whatever the reason they result in a much warmer atmosphere that allows the accomplished cast to really show off their capabilities.

Sarah Accomando and Grant Neal, as Snow White and her charming Prince, are two engaging leads with warm vocals. Kim Hartman's Wicked Queen excels at the sneering demeanour demanded of her, if less comfortable with being given a Lady Gaga song to perform. The lion's share of the credit for reviving the audience mood must go to Michael Otton's Muddles, whose magic and escapology routines provide several of the show highlights.

With an audience as receptive in the first half as it was in the second, this would be an enthralling show from the off. It would also mean a warmer reception for the superb circus skills of Angelina Treva Riley, whose enchanting aerial work played in an underserved near silence.

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Well worth a visit...with or without the children

Neil Skinner, Watford Observer

24 December 2009

Snow White and the Seven Dwards at Watersmeet is far from an original production; the jokes are well-worn and the story line known to all.
That's not to say, however, that it doesn't provide a cracking evening of family entertainment - it does so with a joyous panache that kepy my girlfriend and I, a couple in their mid-20s, entertained throughout.

After a slow start - perhaps a result of the freezing weather outside - a near full house booed and hissed along with commendable vigour and more than entered into the spirit of things.

As with all panto productions, this one was held aloft, not by its cheesy song and dance numbers, but by its gloriously wicked queen, played by former 'Allo, 'Allo star Kim Hartman, who, ably assisted by Emmerdale's Rchard Grieve as Herman the Henchman, was clearly revelling in the role of pantomime villain.

Another star turn clearly revelling in his role was magician and presenter Michael Otton, who tackled the court jester role of Muddles with enormous ease and self-confidence.

Throwing in magic routines - not to mention a few painful looking tumbles - along the way, he gave the evening a welcome change of direction and provided some genuine moments of hysterical laughter.

So too did Mark Hastings, arguably the most macho Dame Dolly Dumpling ever to grace the venue.

In short, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is well worth a visit - with or without the children.

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