YOU SHALL GO TO THE BALL! BLACKPOOL'S GRAND INVITES YOU TO ENJOY THE MAGIC OF CINDERELLA
17-11-2008 | Author: Press Office
TV favourite AMANDA BARRIE joins STEVE ROYLE to star in this year’s fabulous family pantomime
Cinderella
at Blackpool's Grand Theatre from December 5th
This year's traditional pantomime for all the family at the Grand will be full of music and dance, fun and laughter with fabulous costumes, lavish sets and even the sensational Shetland ponies!
This year’s magical family panto Cinderella runs at Blackpool’s Grand Theatre from Friday 5th December 2008 to Sunday 4th January 2009
Cinderella stars TV favourite Amanda Barrie (Bev Tull in Bad Girls, Coronation St, Hell’s Kitchen) as the Fairy Godmother, the hilarious Steve Royle (BBC Radio Lancashire) as Buttons and wacky duo Jamie Morris and Terry Keeble as the Ugly Sisters. Sophia Thierens (Disney’s Beauty and the Beast) plays the beautiful Cinderella and Don Crann (Heartbeat, Boogie Nights) is her father Baron Hardup.
In a far away kingdom Cinderella’s father has remarried and she now has two new wicked step-sisters who soon turn her into their slave! Meanwhile, across town in the castle, Prince Charming is searching for a wife and invites every eligible maiden in the kingdom to a fancy dress ball, where he will be able to choose his bride. Add to the story a Fairy Godmother, a pumpkin carriage, the stroke of midnight, a glass slipper, and the rest, as they say, is fairytale history.
This year's traditional pantomime for all the family at the Grand will be full of music and dance, fun and laughter with fabulous costumes, lavish sets and even the sensational Shetland ponies!
Cinderella is brought to you by Martin Dodd and Peter Frosdick for UK Productions - the company which has presented some of the most critically acclaimed touring musicals in recent years, such as Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Anything Goes, Carousel, 42nd Street, Fiddler on the Roof, South Pacific and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. UK Productions has produced pantomimes at Blackpool’s Grand Theatre for the past twelve years.
Tickets for Cinderella at the Grand Theatre, Blackpool from Friday 5th December 2008 to Saturday 4th January 2009 are available from only £11.
Family tickets, concessions and Friends of the Grand discounts also available.
Show running time: 2hours 20 mins approx
It’s never too soon to book your tickets. Oh no it isn’t!
Call the Grand Theatre Box Office on 01253 290190 or book online at www.blackpoolgrand.co.uk
SCHOOLS AND GROUPS from only £7 – Please call 01253 743232 and ask for our coach information pack.
Please note: The performance on Saturday 27th December at 2pm will be Audio Described and BSL Sign Interpreted.
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Don’t forget - Parking is available at a discounted rate at the secure West Street Car Park, directly opposite the theatre’s entrance. Book your parking ticket when you book your show tickets from the Box Office and you can have parking from 5.30pm until 12.30am for only £2.50!
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Notes for Editors:
Cinderella is a Matcham Monkey Club designated performance.
Blackpool’s Grand Theatre has launched the Matcham Monkey Club to offer children aged 2 to 12 the chance to get more involved with the live theatre experience.
The Matcham Monkey Club offers lots of exciting benefits for members, including an opportunity for free show tickets by collecting Matcham Monkey membership card stamps at designated shows. Come and see three designated Matcham Monkey shows and get three stamps on your membership card and you will be entitled to a ticket to see a fourth designated show FREE!
Visit www.matchammonkeyclub.co.uk for further details.
Amanda Barrie
Amanda Barrie is probably best known for her role as Alma Sedgewick (later Baldwin), on ITV1’s Coronation Street from 1981 to 2001 and inmate Bev Tull in the popular ITV1 prison series Bad Girls.
Amanda was born in Ashton-under-Lyne in Cheshire as Shirley Anne Broadbent. She was educated at St Anne's College in Lytham St Annes, but was expelled when she played truant to attend ballet lessons!
At the age of thirteen, her parents divorced and she moved to London where she lived at the Theatre Girls Club in Soho and worked as a chorus girl. At the age of sixteen she danced at the Windsor Club alongside Danny La Rue and Barbara Windsor. In 1958 Shirley changed her name to Amanda Barrie before making her West End debut at the Findsbury Park Empire in Babes In The Wood.
Throughout the Sixties Amanda worked flat out on stage in productions such as Cabaret, Private Lives, Hobson's Choice, A Public Mischief, Six Of One, She Loves Me and Little by Little. She worked as the hostess on Double Your Money with Hughie Green and appeared in the films Operation Bullshine, A Pair of Briefs, Doctor In Distress and I've Gotta Horse. In 1963 Amanda won the role of Arthea - a female taxi driver in Carry On Cabby and the following year she played the title role in Carry On Cleo.
Amanda also starred in the musical Stepping Out with Julia McKenzie, played Mrs Spence in the 1976 film One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing and danced on the Morecambe and Wise Show.
Since leaving Coronation Street in 2001, Amanda starred in the popular ITV1 prison series, Bad Girls, playing inmate Bev Tull from the fifth series to the last along with Phyl Oswyn played by Stephanie Beacham. The characters together were known as "The Costa Cons". She also notoriously took part in ITV’s reality cooking show Hell's Kitchen in 2004. While on the show, she became so frustrated with Gordon Ramsay she tried to slap him across the face!
For further Grand Theatre press information, images or review tickets please call:
Sarah Jane Wright
Press Officer
Grand Theatre, Blackpool
01253 743252
Email: sarahjane@blackpoolgrand.co.uk
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