Cinderella

Synopsis

The magical pantomime including Prince Charming, Buttons, the Ugly Sisters and, of course, the Fairy Godmother who turns a pumpkin and mice into a carriage and horses ... but why doesn't the glass slipper disappear at midnight?!

Our Review:

25 November 2012

The annual Coliseum pantomime has long been rated one of the very best in the country and it gives me great pleasure – as it will every audience from now until the New Year – to say that this year’s is well up to the standards of the house, and in some ways even exceeds them.

Fine Time Fontayne is back as Dame and renews his collaboration with Coliseum director Kevin Shaw to produce a show that will be very hard to beat as a festive family treat. It’s packed with comic turns but it also respects the story and though the cast of principals numbers just seven, it is a hand-picked crew that never misses a beat.

Firstly, it looks great, thanks to Celia Perkins’ storybook sets and a dazzling array of amusingly inventive costumes. Then there’s the pit band, just three strong but with today’s electronic wizardry it often sounds like a full orchestra and, under MD Dave Bintley, it bounds forward with so much pizazz that the audien...

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Denise Tyrer - 7 January 2013:

Watched this with our two granddaughters. It was magical. An excellent production. Many thanks to staff also on moving our tickets to accommodate illness...

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