Sleeping Beauty
From: Thursday, 9th December 2010
To: Sunday, 2 January 2011
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Synopsis
The tale of the sleeping beauty - sleeping under the spell of a wicked witch until her Prince Charming comes to wake her up.
Our Review:
Simon Cole - 10 December 2010
Wendy Craig’s majestic good fairy watches over the beautiful Sleeping Beauty in UK Production’s version of the classic fairy tale now in residence at Basingstoke’s The Anvil for the 2010 panto season.
The former star of Butterflies and ITV’s The Royal is in fine form, and voice, as the force for good in this tale of a young princess, cursed by the disagreeable ‘bad’ fairy Demonia and destined to die if she pricks her finger on a spinning wheel before her eighteenth birthday. Of course nobody dies in pantoland, so the sentence is commuted, by the good fairy’s intervention, to a sleep lasting 100 years, only to be woken by true love’s kiss from the duty handsome prince.
The problem with Sleeping Beauty is that that is about it. The story, such as it is, is easily dealt with in the first half, leaving the second half practically free for the serious business of panto – slapstick, audience participation, sing songs etc. Unfortunately, this makes the show seem...
Cast
Wendy Craig (Good Fairy)
Abi Titmuss (Bad Fairy)
Andrew Agnew (Silly Billy)
Sarah Louise Day (Sleeping Beauty)
Michael Chance (King)
Shaun Dalton (Prince)
Nick Wilton (Nurse Nelly)
Creative
Gazette Newspapers (Corporate Sponsor)
Martin Dodd (for UK Productions) (Producer)
Anvil Arts (Producer)
Maurice Lane (Director)
Stephen Holroyd (Lighting)
Sarah Louise Day (Choreographer)
Martyn Cooper (Musical Director)
Kelly Hopkins Theatre Arts (Company)
Basingstoke Academy of Dance (Company)
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