Your ultimate panto guide for Merseyside 2023/24
Actors up and down the country are gearing up to take on iconic roles in a number of much loved pantomimes - including here on Merseyside. Wether you go with friends or take the kids. We've got our extra special festive roundup of the best and the brightest pantos on offer in Liverpool coming up for you.
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00:00 It's as British as fish and chips, bank holidays and the BBC.
00:05 Pantomime season is well and truly upon us and we have a special guide to the pantos
00:10 on offer in Merseyside this festive season.
00:12 Oh no we don't, oh yes we do.
00:15 Fee-fie, fo-fum, there's giant amounts of festive fun at the Floral Pavilion with Jack
00:20 and the Beanstalk.
00:21 On their farm in Merriedale, Jack, his mother Dame Trott and brother Simon haven't a bean
00:26 to their name.
00:27 Jack, how Daisy's gone dry and worse still, the village is being destroyed by an evil
00:31 giant.
00:33 Starring soap star Hayley Tamerden as the Vegetable Fairy, best known for her roles
00:37 in Emmerdale and Coronation Street as well as winning the fifth Dancing on Ice series.
00:41 This production's full of sparkling sets, lavish costumes, song and dance numbers and
00:46 bags of audience participation.
00:48 That runs until Sunday 7th January at the New Brighton venue.
00:53 Shakespeare North Playhouse are taking visitors on a whirlwind adventure to the English countryside
00:59 this Christmas time with the help of Toad, Ratty, Mole and Badger.
01:03 The Wind in the Willows is a timeless tale of friendship, courage, consequence and bravery.
01:08 When Mole forfeits his seasonal cleaning for the lure of the luscious riverbank, he has
01:13 no idea of the thrilling and slightly chaotic journey that he and his friends are about
01:18 to embark on.
01:19 Featuring live music that is on at the Cockpit Theatre until Saturday 13th January.
01:26 Aladdin is flying into St Helens Theatre Royal this Christmas.
01:29 An adventure story of good triumphing over evil with gorgeous sets, dazzling costumes
01:34 and plenty of audience participation.
01:37 Emmerdale star Liam Fox makes his panto debut in the role of evil Abanaza and panto royalty
01:44 Leanne Campbell appears digitally as a magical junior of the mirror.
01:48 That runs until Sunday 14th January.
01:50 Liverpool's Royal Court Christmas shows back.
01:53 The Scouse Dick Whittington.
01:55 Now Dick was lying in bed when a scary hairy fairy came to him in a dream.
02:00 If he was to go to London he'd become Lord Mayor.
02:03 How brill is that?
02:04 But London is 212 miles away.
02:06 Why not become Lord Mayor of Liverpool instead?
02:10 There's a live band and some pretty rude words so do leave the kids at home for this one
02:14 that runs until Saturday 20th January.
02:19 The Everyman's annual rock and roll panto will be Cinderella.
02:22 While you might think you know the story, this is the fairy tale told in their own style.
02:27 There'll be outlandish and sparkling costumes, plenty of plot twists and surprises and the
02:32 show's bursting with rock and pop hits.
02:35 That runs until Saturday 20th January.
02:38 Direct from the London Palladium, The Wizard of Oz is coming to the Liverpool Empire this
02:42 Christmas starring JLS as Aston Merigold, as the Tin Man and RuPaul Drag Race UK winner
02:48 The Vivian as the Wicked Witch of the West.
02:51 Featuring iconic original score from the Oscar winning film including Over the Rainbow, Follow
02:56 the Yellow Brick Road and We're Off to See the Wizard.
02:59 That is on until Sunday 7th January.
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