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UK And Ireland Pantomime Guide 2007-2008
He's behind you! Oh no he isn't! Certainly Christmas and New Year would be a much duller time without the obligatory family trip to a panto. So we've brought together a list of some of the biggest and best shows to be found in Britain and Ireland this Winter. There's nothing like a Dame...!
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Belfast
Sleeping Beauty
Waterfront Hall
1 Dec 2007 – 12 Jan 2008
Tickets £45 for family of four
Dan Gordon stars as trainee fairy Nanny McGee along with Dr Watt and the Good Fairies Lily, Rose and Daff O’Dill help the Prince end the evil curse placed on the beautiful princess.
To book tickets, call 028 9033 4400 |
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Birmingham
Aladdin
Hippodrome
19 Dec 2007 – 27 Jan 2008
Tickets from £20
An all-star cast is this year led by Torchwood's John Barrowman as Aladdin and Crackerjack compere Don McLean as Widow Twankey.
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Brighton
Cinderella
Theatre Royal
7 Dec 2007 – 6 Jan 2008
Family ticket £54
Inspired casting puts TV's Kim and Aggie in the roles of the Ugly Sisters with Nickelodeon presenter Laura Hamilton as Cinderella.
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Cardiff
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
New Theatre
15 Dec 2007 – 26 Jan 2008
Tickets from £7.50
Raising sixteen children is hard enough, but Mother Goose also has an evil rent collector to contend with. How can the gift of a goose called Prescilla possibly be the answer to all Mother Goose’s problems?
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Dublin
Beauty and the Beast
Gaiety Theatre
2 Dec 2007 – 3 Feb 2008
Tickets from €16.50
Stars from TV soap Fair City appear in the Gaiety's traditional pantomime which promises laughs and jokes and plenty of special effects!
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Exeter
Cinderella
Northcott Theatre
12 Dec 2007 – 20 Jan 2008
All seats £11
The main selling point at the Northcott's panto this year is the promise of a snowstorm in the auditorium itself mid-performance.
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Inverness
Peter Pan
Eden Court Theatre
6 Dec 2007 – 5 Jan 2008
Tickets from £10
Songs, jokes and a swashbuckling adventure are on the cards for theatregoers at this year's panto as they take the audience on a trip to Never Never Land.
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London - Wimbledon
Snow White
New Wimbledon Theatre
7 Dec 2007 – 20 Jan 2008
Tickets from £13
Ross Kemp stars as the evil henchman in this year's production of Snow White, ably supported by Bobby Davro as Muddles and Harry Potter's Warwick David as 'Doc'.
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London - Hackney
Dick Whittington
Hackney Empire
1 Dec 2007 – 12 Jan 2008
Tickets from £9.50
How could you ignore a show billed as 'Jack Sparrow meets Indiana Jones with a big dash of West End spectacle all set in Medieval London'?
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London - Richmond
Cinderella
Richmond Theatre
7 Dec 2007 -20 Jan 2008
Tickets from £18.50
Mr Smoothie himself, Nigel Havers, heads up the cast at the Richmond Theatre's production of Cinderella.
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London
Cinderella
Old Vic
15 Dec 2007 – 26 Jan 2008
Tickets from £7.50
Stephen Fry describes his show thus: 'a tale of passion, jealousy, cross-dressing, injustice, chocolate, madness, cruelty, ice-cream...and most importantly of all, love.'
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Manchester
Dick Whittington
The Lowry
7 Dec 2007 – 6 Jan 2008
Tickets from £14
Chesney Hawkes takes the lead role as Dick with Darren Day supporting as King Rat (insert your own pun here). The show promises laser effects and plenty of song and dance.
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Manchester
Cinderella
Opera House
12 Dec 2007 – 20 Jan 2008
Tickets from £4.25
Corrie favourites Johnny Briggs (Mike Baldwin) and Tina O’Brien (Sarah Louise Platt) will play Cinderella’s father and Cinderella while Bernie Nolan takes on the role of Fairy Godmother.
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Stoke on Trent
Cinderella
Regent Theatre
13 Dec 2007 – 13 Jan 2008
Tickets from £14
Jonathan Wilkes returns for a third time running, this year taking on the role of buttons. He's ably supported by Coronation Street's Shobna Gulati.
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Swansea
Dick Whittington
Swansea Grand
7 Dec 2007 – 20 Jan 2008
Tickets from £13
A soapy cast for this panto includes Home and Away's Alf (Ray Meagher) as King Rat, Neighbours star Anne Charleston as Fairy Bow Bells and Eastenders' Hannah Waterman as Dick.
To book tickets, call 01792 475715 |
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York
Sinbad the Sailor
Theatre Royal
13 Dec 2007 – 2 February 2008
Tickets from £10
The most powerful book of spells ever written falls to earth and Sinbad has to prevent the evil sorcerer Warlock from destroying planet Earth.
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