It may still be hot and steamy out there but the nights are drawing in, the leaves are beginning to fall and our thoughts are turning to... PANTO!
Christmas is coming!
After an industrious week of costume fitting, we had a day of hectic fun yesterday with our official pantomime photo shoot.
We're thanking the Panto Fairy for blessing us with the same ace team who kitted out last year's cast - Tony Priestly and Paula Patterson. Having worked together, on and off, for around thirty years, our dynamic duo have dressed the great and the good on stages the length and breadth of the country. It's not unusual for Tony to be working on two or more pantos at any given time and, this year, we're in excellent company because he's doing Dick Whittington at the Birmingham Hippodrome and Cinderella at the Palladium, as well as our very own Mother Goose. Tony and Paula have done us proud again this year, we have the most wonderful cast and creative team we could have wished for and we're VERY EXCITED about it all, so here are a few of our lovely official photos plus some silly behind the scenes snaps for you to enjoy.
Amelia Rose Morgan as Jill and Ian Parkin as Squire Stingy
Roy Hudd as Mother Goose and Ian Jones as her son Willy
Gareth Davies as Vanity and Julia Sutton as Virtue
Priscilla the Goose as Herself
Paula weighs up a couple of things with Roy
You're 'avin' a larf ain't yer?
Virtue and Mother Goose swap beauty tips
Tony plumps up our Goose
Altogether now...
Mother Goose runs 2nd to 31st December. Hurry and buy your tickets here!
Official photography by Matt Crossick