• Cinderella,
• Nick Winston,
• Winter Gardens,
• Samuel Holmes,
• Michael Williams,
• Mark Goucher,
• Shirley Ballas

The Winter Gardens Blackpool and Mark Goucher announced today that Shirley Ballas will star as The Fairy Godmother in Blackpool’s biggest ever family pantomime, Cinderella, at the Opera House Blackpool from Sunday 13^th December to Sunday 3^rd January 2021. Tickets on sale now with further star casting to be announced soon.

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• Conor Burns,
• Hope Street Theatre,
• Falling Doors Theatre,
• Catherine Devine,
• Ben Murray
• Elliot Burton
• Natasha Hale
• Sarah Jayne Van Parys
• Michael Schenck
• Caitlin Mawhinney
• Chloe Pole
• There's a Dead Body in my Baby's Sandpit
• Nancy Msiska
• Shawney Ross
• Ink-Wissuta Duangrsi
• Callum Southern

It was a pleasure to catch up with Sarah Jayne Van Parys and Nancy Msiska, the creatives behind Falling Doors Theatre, along with Ben Murray, musical director of their upcoming production, There’s a Dead Body in my Baby’s Sandpit.

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• Oldham Coliseum,
• Slung Low,
• Square Chapel Arts Centre
• Ladybones
• Sorcha McCaffrey
• Alphabetti Theatre

After a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe last summer Sorcha McCaffrey's new play Ladybones examines OCD, sexuality and lonelines.

It's a personal piece for Sorcha as her performance is driven by her own experiences of living with OCD.

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• Eithne Browne,
• John McArdle,
• Maggie May
• Leeds Playhouse
• Frances Poet
• Jemima Lavick
• Mark Holgate
• Shireen Farkhoy
• Maxine Finch

Brookside legends John McArdle and Eithne Browne will star in Maggie May looking at how people and their families live with dementia.

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• Emma Rice,
• David Pugh,
• Storyhouse Chester,
• Wise Children
• Malory Towers
• Enid Blyton

A new musical adaptation of Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers is heading to Storyhouse during Summer 2020.

David Pugh, the Olivier and Tony Award-winning producer, is delighted to present Emma Rice’s critically acclaimed musical adaptation of Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers, originally created with Wise Children.

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• Octagon Theatre,
• Willy Russell,
• Mina Anwar,
• Shirley Valentine,
• Lotte Wakeham

TV and stage star Mina Anwar stars as frustrated housewife Shirley Valentine who escapes to a new life in a new production of Willy Russell’s classic at Bolton Octagon Theatre.

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• Antony Costa,
• Hope Mill Theatre,
• Kit Orton,
• Genevieve Nicole,
• Matthew Heywood
• Zorro The Musical
• Christian Durham
• Alex Gibson-Giorgio
• Emma Kingston
• Benjamin Purkiss
• Ajjaz Awad
• Amy Bastani
• Ben Boskovic
• Maxwell Griffin
• Jessica Pardoe
• Thomas Ping
• Seren Sandham-Davies
• Stylianos Thomadakis
• Gipsy Kings

Full casting is announced today for the new spectacular production of Zorro The Musical which will run at the Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester from 14^th March – 18^th April 2020, with opening night for press on 18th March, directed by Christian Durham. The show will be brought to life by a cast including Antony Costa as Garcia, Alex Gibson-Giorgio as Ramon, Emma Kingston as Luisa, Genevieve Nicole as Inez, Kit Orton as Don Alejandro and Benjamin Purkiss as the masked hero, Zorro.

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• Z-Arts,
• Manchester Musical Youth,
• Kimberly Holden,
• Calamity Jane

Multi-award winning youth musical theatre company bring a bit of the wild west to Manchester this February.

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• Red Ladder Theatre Company,
• Smile Club
• Andrea Heaton

Red Ladder Theatre Company’s new production is set in a dystopian world in which a government drive aims to tame unruly women through a network of sinister Smile Clubs. 

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• Mamma Mia,
• Leeds Grand Theatre,
• Judy Craymer,
• Benny Andersson,
• Björn Ulvaeus,

Jukebox musical juggernaut Mamma Mia! comes back to Leeds Grand Theatre from Tuesday 24^th November to Saturday 5^th December 2020 as part of a UK and International Tour celebrating 20 years since it premiered in London.

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