Cinderella by Mark Stokes

10th - 25th January 2003

Cinderella programme cover

Cast:

CINDERELLA , Natalie Poole

PRINCE VINCE , Christopher Stanton

BUTTONS , Adrian Page

GERI , Rob Hodgkiss

VICKY , Mark Stokes

DANDI , Laura Broklesby

BARON HARDUP , Jim Willis

BARONESS HARDUP , Sally Pratt

FAIRY , Helen Stokes

LISA , Susan Wyld

TASHA , Bekki Webber

JANE , Emma Steele

MARY , Tammy Haycock

KAREN , Kerry Panter

LUCY , Laura Webber

JORDAN , Gemma Tansell

An O.R.P Production Directed by Lisa Smith & Mark Stokes.

Crew:

SET DESIGN : Ray Lockey

LIGHTING DESIGN : Alan Wood

STAGE MANAGER : Martin Wade

SET CONSTRUCTION & CREW : Danny Hulse, Peter Turton, John Upton, Martin Wade, Richard Shiner, Pete Corser,Mathew Gledhill

COACH ASSEMBLY : Harold Jones

SCENIC PAINTERS : Ray Lockey,Vicky Tressler, Joe Eyres, Ross Ashley

CHOREOGRAPHY : Gemma Tansell

ASSISTED BY : Tammy Haycock & Helen Stokes

MUSIC SUPERVISION & ARRANGEMENTS : Jim Willis

COSTUME & PROPS COORDINADTOR : Lisa Smith

COSTUMES : ORP Wardrobe, Sue Downing

U.V. ANIMALS : Carole Eyres

SOUND : Gillian Lessiter

LIGHTING OPERATORS : Scott Vanes, Alan Wood

The Play:

Will Cinderella go to the ball? Oh no she won't if the ugly sisters have their way.

Join us for this seasons sparkling Panto and discover if Cinders goes to the ball and just how ugly those sisters are. Will Buttons ever find true love, Prince Vince his Princess and will Cinders be happy ever after?

ACT I

SCENE 1: The Village

SCENE 2: Hardup Hall

SCENE 3: The Wood

SCENE 4: Hardup Hall

SCENE 5: The Wood

ACT II

SCENE 1: The Palace

SCENE 2: Outside the Palace

SCENE 3: The Palace

SCENE 4: Outside the Palace

SCENE 5: Hardup Hall

SCENE 6: Finale

There will be one interval of 15 minutes between Act I & II.

Reviews:

'Fun for all at panto' (John Slim).

Mark Stokes, who wrote the show, and fellow Ugly Sister Rob Hodgkiss offer a convincing for the abolition of traditional principal boys.

Because if Prince Vince (Christopher Stanton) had been a girl, His Royal Highness would have buckled under the onslaught of his first encounter with an Ugly sister who leapt loudly into his arms.

Nevertheless, I have to say, as a panto traditionalist, I was pleased to see we still had a happy, female, thigh-slapping Dandini (Laura Brocklesby), urging on the action in a noisy, colourful show.

Adrian Page is a crowd-pleasing Buttons, Natalie Poole is a Cinderella with a great big grin and a smoky singing voice, and Helen Stokes a cheeky-faced Fairy who complains that someone has nicked her fairy set.

Sally Pratt is in splendid form as the Baroness and messrs Hodgkiss and Stokes strike back at us with water pistols.