Casting has just been announced for ALADDIN at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre for the 2016 17 season and is to Star X Factor Finalist JOE McELDERRY, X Emerdale Star LISA RILEY, X Benefits Claimant DOREEN and X Lichfield Garrick Panto Dame of ten years IAN ADAMS
More star casting to be announced says producers Qdos Productions (which we suspect is ‘pantoland’ code for “We were really hoping to book a comic with at least half a name, but now we’ve blown 50% of the cast budget on Joe we are having a re-think. But we are dead close to closing a contract to secure ‘Dooby Duck’ and his other puppet friends”)
Anyway – Wolverhampton Grand Panto is always one of the brightest in the West Midlands – and nowhere near as expensive as Birmingham Hippodrome (although they do tend to attract the bigger and therefore pricier names)
Also nice to see the newest Black Country cult character on the block ‘Doreen’ being cast. Will be interesting to see how Gill Jordan’s brilliant Doreen Tipton character creation can translate to proper panto. Especially as she’s such a lazy cow.
Details, Tickets and All That Jazz – http://www.grandtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/panto/aladdin/
PS – There’s a BRAND NEW West Midlands Facebook Group been launched – and you’re all invited to join. Great place to promote, review, chat, recommend or even have a bit (but not too much) of a moan about anything to do with West Midlands Theatre.
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