Anna-Jane Casey joins the solid of Mother Goose as Cilla The Goose with Mairi Barclay, Becca Francis, Shailan Gohil and Laura Tyrer additionally confirmed to affix the corporate. Anna-Jane replaces the beforehand introduced Mel Giedroyc.
They be part of the beforehand introduced Ian McKellen as Mother Goose, John Bishop as Vic Goose, Oscar Conlon-Morrey as Jack, Simbi Akande as Jill, Sharon Ballard as Good Fairy Encanta and Karen Mavundukure as Evil Fairy Malignia. The solid is accomplished by Adam Brown, Gabriel Fleary, Richard Leeming and Genevieve Nicole.
A West End star for over three a long time, Anna-Jane Casey was most lately seen as Fraulein Kost within the award-winning manufacturing of Cabaret on the Kit Kat Club. Her many different West End credit embrace Velma Kelly in Chicago, Mrs Wilkinson in Billy Elliot, Lady of the Lake in Spamalot, Anita in West Side Story, Rizzo in Grease, Buffy, Dinah and Pearl in Starlight Express and Rumpleteazer in Cats. She performed Dot in Sunday within the Park with George on the Menier Chocolate Factory, Mabel in Mack and Mabel on the Watermill Theatre, for which she received the TMA Award for Best Performance in a Musical and the title roles in Piaf and Sweet Charity and Violet Butterfield in Flowers for Mrs Harris, all on the Sheffield Crucible.
It is written by Jonathan Harvey (Coronation Street, Gimme Gimme Gimme) and directed by award-winning director Cal McCrystal. Set and Costume design is by Liz Ascroft, Choreography by Lizzi Gee, Lighting design by Prema Mehta, Sound design by Ben Harrison and Puppet Design and Creation by Chris Barlow. Casting is by Anne Vosser and the Production Manager is Ben Arkell.
Mother Goose (McKellen) and her husband Vic (Bishop) run an Animal Sanctuary for waifs and strays and reside a healthful life inside an deserted Debenhams. But when a goose (Casey) flies in, will fame and fortune get the higher of them?! Will Ma’s feathers be critically ruffled? Will Pa inform everybody to get stuffed?! And is their truthful life about to show fowl? Get prepared for fairies with hefty vocal chords, puppets with faucet dance {qualifications} and impeccably constructed mayhem that may quack up the entire household. This hilarious family-friendly mom of all pantos is the final word theatrical feast stuffed with enjoyable, farce and greater than a few surprises that may make you honk out loud.
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