Last year my family enjoyed one pantomime, at the Cresset, with table service and a distance of about half a mile from the next set of attendees. Not something I really want to repeat. Nor, I would suggest, was it profitable.
That was a Thursday, and a day later the curtains drew for good for the 2020 pantomime season.
Perhaps fitting then, that after a beast of a season last year we enjoyed a beauty of a production to kick off this one.
The Bretton venue had a good attendance for yesterday’s show, and for those fretting masks and temperature checks were in force.
Set in Bretton Vale, Beauty (Victoria Jane) follows her father (Giles Stoakley) into the enchanted forest, to soon find herself in a castle with Prince Rasputin (Andrew Crawford) – now in the form of a tortured beast.
That’s thanks to the dreaded Carabosse (Carabosse) who is intent on ruining everything while looking like a combination of Cruella Deville and Debbie Harry and singing like a star.
Meanwhile the Fairy Godmother (Kim Taylforth) keeps thing moving smoothly, ably assisted by the fabulous…
