"in North Hollywood, starring Jerry Mathers and Freddie Stroma. This was followed in 2011 by ""A Snow White Christmas"", starring Marina Sirtis as The Wicked Queen and Neil Patrick Harris as The Magic Mirror, and ""A Cinderella Christmas"", starring Fred Willard as Baron Hardup, Cinderella's father. In 2012, the company mounted ""A Snow White Christmas"" at the Pasadena Playhouse, starring Ariana Grande as Snow White, Charlene Tilton as The Wicked Queen and Neil Patrick Harris again as The Magic Mirror. The production drew 13,000 ticket buyers. ""Aladdin"" was scheduled for the 2013 holiday season at Pasadena. American pantomime American pantomime,"
"and the Baron"", in 2018. Sadler's Wells Theatre produced the pantomime ""Baron Munchausen; or, Harlequin's Travels"" in London in 1795, starring the actor-singer-caricaturist Robert Dighton as the Baron; another pantomime based on the Raspe text, ""Harlequin Munchausen, or the Fountain of Love"", was produced in London in 1818. Herbert Eulenberg made the Baron the main character of a 1900 play, ""Münchhausen"", and the Expressionist writer Walter Hasenclever turned the stories into a comedy, ""Münchhausen"", in 1934. Grigori Gorin used the Baron as the hero of his 1976 play ""That Very Munchausen""; a film version was made in 1980. ""Baron Prášil"","
"the play ""Gandhi"" at the Tricycle theatre London. Castle is married to writer Maggie Wadey. John Castle John Castle (born 14 January 1940, Croydon, Surrey, England) is an English film, stage, and television actor. He is known for his role as Agrippa Postumus in the BBC television adaptation of ""I, Claudius"" (1976) and for playing Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, in the film ""The Lion in Winter"" (1968). He also played Dr Carrasco as well as the prisoner called ""The Duke"" in the film ""Man of La Mancha"" (1972), and the villainous Paul McDagget in ""RoboCop 3"" (1993). Born in"
"John Castle John Castle (born 14 January 1940, Croydon, Surrey, England) is an English film, stage, and television actor. He is known for his role as Agrippa Postumus in the BBC television adaptation of ""I, Claudius"" (1976) and for playing Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, in the film ""The Lion in Winter"" (1968). He also played Dr Carrasco as well as the prisoner called ""The Duke"" in the film ""Man of La Mancha"" (1972), and the villainous Paul McDagget in ""RoboCop 3"" (1993). Born in Croydon, Castle was educated at Brighton College and Trinity College, Dublin, and trained at the"
"Rasmus Hardiker Rasmus Hardiker (born 31 January 1985) is an English actor. He played Raymond in Steve Coogan's sitcom ""Saxondale"" and Ben in the Jack Dee comedy ""Lead Balloon"". Hardiker was also in the BBC3 sketch series ""The Wrong Door"". He joined voice cast of ""Thomas & Friends"", voicing Philip in the UK and the USA and Monty in the UK, and Bill in the UK and the USA dub taking over from Jonathan Broadbent. Hardiker was born in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England. He left Arthur Terry School in Sutton Coldfield with an A level in drama. The first name"
"of China in a record-breaking 1978/79 season of ""Aladdin"" at the Grand Theatre in Swansea. Other pantomime appearances have included the role of ""Beast"" in ""Beauty & The Beast"" at the Woodville Halls in Gravesend, Kent To date he has appeared in 36 pantomimes. he Played 'Scrooge' to critical acclaim at Garrick Theatre Litchfield in 2012 and Abanazer for Theater Royal Norwich 2013, 2014 He Played General Waverley In Irving Berlin's 'White Christmas 'at The Festival Theatre Edinburgh. He then returned to the role in 2015/16 to record breaking houses at The Dominion Theatre London. He was the subject of"
"revive the New Zealand Ballet and became the principal male dancer in that company. He has been with the company, now known as the Royal New Zealand ballet since then. Among the many roles he has danced were Petrouchka and the role of Albrecht in Giselle. He now dances character parts such as Captain Hook in Peter Pan. He played the part of Edgar Marwick in Peter Sharp's 1986 movie Undercover Gang. In 1986 he played in the TV series Fireraiser and was nominated for the best actor award. He is patron of the Centastage theatrical company He received a"
"also appeared in pantomime, and starred in ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" at the Wycombe Swan in High Wycombe, during the 2004 and 2005 Christmas seasons. In 2006, he starred in ""Cinderella"" at the Tameside Hippodrome as Prince Charming alongside Sue Jenkins as the evil stepmother Baroness. In 2012 he starred as Abanazar at The Stag Theatre in Sevenoaks and in 2015 Captain Hook in Peter Pan there. In 2016 he starred as Abanazer in the Blue Genie production of Aladdin at The Whitley Bay Playhouse. A keen motor racing enthusiast, Lynch raced a Marcos, TVR and then Mosler"
"and Maurice, Chrisalys, Desmond O'Connor and Lucifire. In 2009, he was one of four major neo-cabaret artists to perform as part of ""Space Oddities"", an evening of cabaret dedicated to retro-futurism. The others were Ruby Blues, Jonny Woo and Empress Stah. He has appeared every year from 2002 in the Battersea Barge pantomime, which he has written and directed several times. He performed as Hildegaard Von Boss in ""Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling"" (2010) and Monsieur Wolf in ""Red Riding Hoodie"" (2011). In 2008, he co-produced a mock wedding at the Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, in which the elements"
"portrayed Dudley Mortimer in ""The Broken Melody"". In 1902, he began a run of 700 performances as Mr. Pineapple in the hit musical ""A Chinese Honeymoon"". Following this, in 1904, he played Crookie Scrubs in ""Sergeant Brue"". In 1905, at the Haymarket Theatre, he appeared in ""On the Love Path"" and at Drury Lane, he was Baron Bluff in the pantomime. In 1906, at the Vaudeville Theatre, he created the role of Sir John Chaldicott in ""The Belle of Mayfair"" and appeared there in 1907 in ""That Brute Simmonds"". In 1908, at the Hicks Theatre, he was Joachim XIII in"
"Theatre in the pantomime ""Hop o' my Thumb and his Brothers"" by Charles Farley, in which he played Madoc Mawr, the Welsh ogre, Miss Poole being Little Jack, and Priscilla Horton (afterwards Mrs German Reed) the Genius of the Harp. The next year he was still more successful in the pantomime produced on 26 December and called ""Puss in Boots"", in which his character was Tasnar, chief of the Long Heads and No Bodies. During his long career Payne played many parts, ranging from pantomime to tragedy. He was harlequin to Joe Grimaldi's clown at Sadler's Wells in 1827; he"
"becoming an ""icon of comedy"" that entered into the British imagination and the English language. The ""grandfather"" of the modern pantomime horse was the Blondin Donkey, introduced at the Royal Holborn theatre in 1885 by the acrobatic Griffiths brothers, Fred and Joe, and named after the tightrope walker who was famous for crossing Niagara Falls naked. A different horse known as Pogo the Performing Horse and worn by a father-and-son team became a popular panto feature and appeared at the London Coliseum in 1923. Panto horse costumes range from low-cost, ""ready-to-wear"" fabric versions to more complex puppet suits that have"
"Cafe Bar"" on the ground floor and ""The Restaurant"" on the dress circle level. The theatre is served by the adjacent Royal Centre tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit. The theatre has an annual pantomime, usually starring local or national celebrities. Some of them include; 2018 Peter Pan 2017 Beauty and the Beast with Sherrie Hewson Ben Richards Ben Nickless & Andrew Ryan 2016 Jack and the Beanstalk with the Chuckle Brothers Gareth Gates & Tony Maudsley 2015 Aladdin with Christopher Biggins, Simon Webbe & Ben Nickless 2014 Snow White with Lesley Joseph 2013 Peter Pan with David Hasselhoff."
"appeared in an episode of ""Plebs"" called ""The Best Men"" as a depressed driving instructor. He also starred in the miniseries ""Houdini"". He competed in Celebrity Big Brother 20, and became the eighth housemate to be evicted on day 23. Stage roles have included Monty the DJ in the West End run and UK tour of ""Saturday Night Fever,"" and appearing at Canterbury's Marlowe Theatre from December 2003 to January 2004 in a pantomime production of ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"", alongside Toyah Willcox. In 2006 he starred in the pantomime Dick Whittington at The Playhouse in Weston-super-Mare. He"
"a year off in 2010, he returned to pantomime in 2011 playing the role of Wishee Washee in ""Aladdin"" alongside Larry Lamb at the Ashcroft Theatre in Croydon. The following year, Tracini returned to the role of Buttons, this time at the Barbican Centre in York alongside his close friend Dani Harmer and ex-""EastEnders"" star Joe Swash. Due to his filming schedule for ""Hollyoaks"", he again took a break from the pantomime stage in 2013, however having completed his work with the soap, he returned to the stage in November 2014, once again reprising the role of Buttons in ""Cinderella"""
"Boris Badenov Boris Badenov is the main antagonist of the 1959-1964 animated cartoons ""Rocky and His Friends"" and ""The Bullwinkle Show"", collectively referred to as ""The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show"" for short. He was voiced by Paul Frees. Badenov's name is a pun on that of the 16th-century Russian Tsar Boris Godunov. His accent and explosive temper are a homage to Hollywood actor Akim Tamiroff, especially Tamiroff's role in ""The Great McGinty"", a 1940 movie directed by Preston Sturges. Badenov was created by Bill Scott, who based the character's appearance on that of Gomez Addams. Boris is a spy from"
"sensible Max (Max Bartlett); Shirley Temple analog Curley Dimples (played by adult Gael Dixon, also the show's choreographer); beautiful enchantress Crystal Ball (Gabrielle Hartley) and her pet, Hep Cat (Nola Finn); Marlena DeWitch (Marion Weir); and villainous Sir Jasper Crookly (Ernie Bourne) and his henchman Gaspar Goblin (Colin McEwan). Recurring guest characters included BoBo the clown, Montmorency James Rabbit (Ernie Bourne), Sebastian Bear, and Aunty Vale (Bunney Brooke). Twoddle & Boddle (Laurie Allen and Bobby Bright, aka Bobby & Laurie of The Go!! Show) were analogs of Tweedledee & Tweedledum, characters the pair had played previously in a pantomime. Max"
"of the ""Little Bo-Peep"" pantomime - featuring Walter Wade as the Baron - that he created and promoted. In 1904 he had taken his ""merry burlesque"", 'A Little Coquette' to the New Gaiety Theatre at Leith. This play would later be filmed under the same title in 1909. By the start of World War I, Gar was the impresario of the local Alexandra Theatre at Widnes and had become associated with Bert Harding, who was a musician and conductor at that place before being called up for service. Throughout the early days of the war, Harding continued to write songs"
"False Friend"", ""The Mysterious Freebooter"", ""The Sorceress of Strozzi"", ""Black Beard"", ""Moms and Mercury"", ""Buenos Ayres"", ""Werter and Charlotte"" and ""Edwin of the Green"". Having seen Bologna in a performance of ""Oscar and Malvina"" in 1807, the actor John Philip Kemble said of him: ""If that man could speak as well as he acts [in] pantomimes, I would never again appear on the stage"". On 8 July 1808, Bologna was hired to entertain guests at a masked ball at Burlington House. There, he met Lord Byron, who admitted to being such a fan of pantomime that he based his poem"
"released on DVD later that year. The brothers toured theatres annually with their shows until 2015. Although, they performed regularly in pantomimes, festivals, events and holiday parks until Barry's death in 2018. During their career, Paul and Barry performed in fifty one pantomimes together. Their first was ""Babes in the Wood"", which they performed as ""The Harman Brothers"" in Malvern from 1967 until 1968 with Sandy Powell. Their final pantomime became ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" at The Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, which they appeared in from 2017 until 2018 with Craig Revel Horwood. They were awarded a ""Great"
"at the end of a performance of ""Barnum"", having performed at the Hippodrome for 600 performances, appearing in six pantomimes, ""Jolson"", ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"", ""Hairspray"", ""Oliver!"" and hosting the 1999 Royal Variety Performance at the theatre. Birmingham Hippodrome The Birmingham Hippodrome is a theatre situated on Hurst Street in the Chinese Quarter of Birmingham, England. Although best known as the home stage of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, it also hosts a wide variety of other performances including visiting opera and ballet companies, touring West End shows, pantomime and drama. The Hippodrome is the venue for West End touring theatrical"
"new Entertainment in Dancing after the manner of the Antient Pantomimes"". The same year he produced a pantomime on the subject of ""Perseus and Andromeda"". After this, pantomime was regular feature at Drury Lane. In 1717 at Lincoln's Inn, actor and manager John Rich introduced Harlequin into the theatres' pantomimes under the name of ""Lun"" (for ""lunatic""). He gained great popularity for his pantomimes, especially beginning with his 1724 production of ""The Necromancer; or, History of Dr. Faustus"". These early pantomimes were silent, or ""dumb show"", performances consisting of only dancing and gestures. Spoken drama was allowed in London only"
"Tony Tanner Tony Tanner (born 27 July 1932, in Hillingdon, Middlesex), is a British stage, film and television actor and a Tony-nominated theatre director and choreographer. Tanner graduated from the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art with the Douglas Cup, awarded him by Margaret Rutherford. He spent five years in northern repertory companies, playing everything from Saint Peter to the front end of a cow in a British pantomime. Intimate revues in West End of London brought Tanner some notoriety, including an appearance in a sketch by then-unknown Harold Pinter. Later Tanner played the patsy in ""The Birthday Party,"" opposite"
"classic pantomime artist who was a master of ""dumb show"" or comic mime, and who invented much of the Harlequinade action. Known as ""the King of Pantomime"", he trained with Joseph Grimaldi and the great Harlequin, Jack Bologna, at Sadler's Wells Theatre, and starred at Covent Garden in the 1830s and 40s. The dancing of the Payne Brothers was so celebrated that W. S. Gilbert referred to it in two of his comic ""Bab Ballads"", ""The Bishop of Rum-ti-Foo"" and ""The Bishop of Rum-ti-Foo Again"". When the Paynes appeared in ""The Grand Duchess"" at the Gaiety in 1871, a reviewer"
"him. The management asked him to bring back the same production the following year. He refused, but said 'maybe in eight or ten years.' He kept his promise and returned for his final pantomime appearance in 1991. In 2005, the company First Family Entertainment took over production of the annual pantomime, and First Family Entertainment are now responsible for a dozen productions up and down the country. The current productions run during the festive period until mid January, totalling over 70 performances during the run, with two performances daily, six days a week. Gerard Kelly was for 20 years a"
"appeared as Old Deuteronomy in the 20th anniversary production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's ""Cats"" in London, and as Jean Valjean in the 10th anniversary production of ""Les Misérables"" in Sydney, Australia. He took the role of Heathcliff in the studio recording of Bernard J. Taylor musical version of ""Wuthering Heights"". In 2004, he appeared in the West End production of ""Ragtime"" alongside Maria Friedman. In December of the same year he appeared in ""Aladdin"" in Bromley. He has played the starring role of 'Adam Pontipee' in ""Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"" in the West End (2006). and the national tour"
"Beauty, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast. Since 2009 the pantomimes have been headlined by actor, Neil Hurst. who has gone on to achieve notability in Halifax, West Yorkshire due to his involvement with these shows. Calderdale Council invested in the theatre, performing major improvements to the theatre building, including new toilets and cloakrooms, rewiring and adding a VIP suite. The council also outfitted the stalls with new seats at a cost of £335,000. According to theatre manager Tim Fagan, the work was performed over a ten-year period and, once the programme was completed the theatre received positive comments from"
"the Bristol Robotics Lab, advising as to how people might best interact with robots. For TV he performed in Aslan the lion and played Glenstorm the centaur, in the BBC's rendition of C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia; he played the starring role of Mopatop in the BAFTA Award-nominated children's television series ""Mopatop's Shop""; and has performed creatures as diverse as a troll, a dancing mouse, and a three-toed sloth. His performance of a full-bodied rhinoceros costume for the Sir Peter Hall/ Gerald Scarfe stage production led to his involvement in the London-based charity Save the Rhino, for whom he"
"Harmer attended Stagecoach drama lessons. Harmer won a scholarship to attend Redroofs Theatre School at the age of 7 and left with 3 GCSEs. On 28 June 2016, Harmer gave birth to her daughter, Avarie-Belle Betsy Rachel Brough. Harmer made her stage debut at the age of 6 in the musical ""The Who's Tommy"" in the West End. She has appeared in a number of pantomimes: Dolly Mixture in ""Snow White"" (2004), the title character in ""Peter Pan"" (2005, Alban Arena, 2006 in Worthing and 2010 in High Wycombe), ""Dick Whittington"" (2007, Wolverhampton Grand Theatre) and the title role in"
"standards, including a 450-seat auditorium, a cafe and a gallery. The theatre reopened on 25 October 2013 with ""Inferno"", an original play by Thomas Bywater which ran from 25–27 October 2013. On 7 December 2013 Attic theatre's production of ""Robin Hood and The Babes In The Wood"" became the first Pantomime at the theatre in 50 years and was followed by Sleeping Beauty in 2014 and Dick Whittington in 2015. Attic return in 2016 with Aladdin. Joseph Purdy Productions became the first UK touring pantomime to visit the Tivoli in July 2018 with Rapunzel. All three levels of the theatre"
"Fitzwarren in ""Dick Whittington"" at the Civic Theatre in Aylesbury (2002), Baron Hardup in ""Cinderella"" at the Royal Spa Centre in Leamington Spa (2004), Brassett in ""Charley's Aunt"" at the Northcott Theatre (2004), and Rupert Matthew in ""Moonshadow"" at Jerwood Space (2005). Wimbush lives in his homes at Wandsworth and Rye, East Sussex with his partner Marie. Martin Wimbush Martin Wimbush (born 1949) is a British actor. Born in London, Wimbush trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama between 1967–69, and then worked extensively in regional theatre, before going into television and then later into film. His television"
"Road"", and as Thomas More and Henry Norris in Mike Poulton's 2014-2015 stage adaptions of ""Wolf Hall"" and ""Bring Up The Bodies"" respectively. Ramm plays Sergeant Brunswick in the BBC Radio 4 comedy drama series Inspector Steine. John Ramm John Ramm is an English comedian and actor. He plays Raymond Box in the National Theatre of Brent, and has also appeared on film and television in ""Robin Hood"" (""Will You Tolerate This?""), ""The Palace"", ""Foyle's War"" (""All Clear"") and as Makepeace's neighbour in ""Shakespeare in Love"". On stage, he has appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company in their 2004 Lope"
"also booked for performance at Heywood and Radcliffe. At Easter 2016, Hegerty appeared as the Enchantress in the pantomime ""Beauty and the Beast"", alongside Keith Chegwin and Basil Brush, at the Palace Theatre, Redditch, which sold out, and other venues. From 6 December 2016 to 1 January 2017, she appeared as Blackweed in the pantomime ""Jack and the Beanstalk"" at the Kings Theatre, Southsea, Portsmouth. From 8 to 31 December 2017, she appeared as The Empress of China in the pantomime ""Aladdin"" at the Princess Theatre (Torquay). On 19 October 2017, Hegerty appeared alongside fellow Chaser Mark Labbett on an"