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20,000 TICKETS ‘BEAN’ SOLD FOR PANTO
Jack & The Beanstalk
South Shields Customs House
Tuesday 29th
November 2016 - Saturday 7th
January 2017
More than 20,000 tickets have already been snapped
up for this year’s Customs House panto.
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| The Jack & The Beanstalk Cast |
The milestone figure for Jack and Beanstalk has
been achieved a week quicker than last year, and several performances are
already virtually sold out.
“It’s great news and quite humbling in a way,” said
Customs House Executive Director Ray Spencer MBE, who is once again starring in
and directing the show. Ray also co-wrote the panto with long-time collaborator
Graeme Thompson.
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| Ray Spencer MBE |
“We can’t wait to get in front of an audience, and
it’s thrilling to hear so many tickets have already been sold. We never take
our audience for granted and are so grateful for the loyalty of so many panto
fans who return year after year to see our show. Jack and the Beanstalk is a traditional
pantomime, but we’re keeping it fresh with some great modern touches which I’m
sure our audiences will love. We’ve long
been known as ‘the little panto with the big heart,’ but this year we’ll be the
little panto with the giant heart,” said Ray.
The Christmas Eve performance has extremely limited
availability, and only a few tickets remain for the evening performance on
December 23.
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| Luke Maddison |
Ray will be returning as the Dame, while panto
regulars Luke Maddison (Jack) and Steven Lee Hamilton (Fleshcreep) will also
also have audiences laughing and singing along. Luke said he was thrilled to be playing Jack:
“This will be my fifth Customs House panto and I’m so grateful to have been
given my first principal boy role alongside such an amazing cast. The Customs
House shows are as special for the cast as the audience – it’s a long run, but
we thoroughly enjoy what is a unique production.”
Ray’s daughter Natasha Haws will play the
principal girl and Gareth Hunter will play her dad, The Mayor.
Making their debuts in a Customs House panto are
David John Hopper as Arbuthnot, the Dame’s son, and Eleanor Chaganis, as the
Fairy.
For the seventh consecutive year, the show’s set
and costumes will be designed by Paul Shriek and Matt Fox.
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| Eleanor Chaganis |
Ray added: “More than 25,000 people came to see
Alice in Wonderland last year and both the critics and audiences loved the
show. So we have a lot to do to match last year’s success, but we have a
fantastic cast, amazing costumes and set design and some extra touches of panto
magic so we’re hoping to match, or even beat, last year’s success. Tickets are selling really quickly, so book
up now as I'd hate anyone to miss out,” he said.
Tickets:
Jack and the Beanstalk is on from November 29, 2016 to January 7, 2017.
Tickets start from £9.75 and are available from the box office on 0191 454 1234 or by visiting www.customshouse.co.uk.
Jack and the Beanstalk is on from November 29, 2016 to January 7, 2017.
Tickets start from £9.75 and are available from the box office on 0191 454 1234 or by visiting www.customshouse.co.uk.
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