Just a week 
to go til rehearsals start up for our 2010 production of The Adventures of Aladdin: A Rock Panto.
This is looking to be a fantastic show. The script is great, full of opportunities to add our own special touches to as well as having all the old pantomime staples; audience participation, slapstick, not one but TWO over the top villains and of course people with silly names.
Set in Peking, Aladdin and his mother the widow Twankey are struggling to make ends meat (when they roast a sheep head they leave the eyes in so it’ll see them through the week) but fortune shines: Aladdin’s long-lost uncle arrives with a plan to apprentice Aladdin as a mining engineer. Little do they know, however, that this elderly miner is not a relative at all but the evil magician Abanazar!
Having escaped from the magician’s wicked plot, Aladdin returns home only to be stopped by a parade: The princess Badroulbodour is on her way to the royal bathhouse. Aladdin is instantly smitten and vows to do whatever it takes to win the princess’ affection. This vow runs contrary to the plans of the Grand Vizier and her son Pekoe who she plans to have wed to the princess giving her control of the country and soon the WORLD!
Stay posted for more news on the show as it happens!
