Cinderella - Theatre Royal Brochure, 2003
Title
Cinderella - Theatre Royal Brochure, 2003
Date
13 December 2003
Description
Two page listing in the Theatre Royal season brochure for Cinderella, the 2003 Pantomime for the venue.
What's the story?
This production of Cinderella starred Bobby Davro, Alex Lovell and Danny La Rue.
Danny La Rue (1929 - 2009) was a well-known and popular British performer on TV and stage and celebrated drag artist.
This image is the two-page spread that was given to promote this show in the Theatre Royal season brochure. Here you can clearly see the list of dates and ticket prices.
There is also information about Cinderella workshops that are being offered to schools by the education department at the Theatre Royal, aiming to provide children with a history of Pantomime.
In 2018 audience member Elizabeth Brassington wrote an unsolicited short essay about her Theatre Royal Pantomime memories, which she gave to the theatre. This covers seeing Red Riding Hood in 1950 as a little girl to bringing her granddaughter to see Cinderella in 2003:
“Fairies dancing on silver balls! I could hardly believe my eyes.
When I got home from the theatre, I practised on a tennis ball in the garden, but kept falling off. This was disappointing because I was going to be a fairy when I grew up.
I’d never seen anything so wonderful as the Theatre Royal in Nottingham. With no television and the ‘common’ picture-house judged unsuitable, the pantomime was the first performance I had ever seen.
A career in pantomime was still my intention when I saw a later show at the Royal. It was ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ with Ted and Barbara Andrews and their little daughter Julie*. I wasn’t getting on very well with my tennis ball so forget fairies – being like Julie Andrews would be my new ambition.
My big opportunity came at last – in a Girl Guide production of ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ – when the timid pantomime-goer had become a bossy teenager.
I was not only Producer, Choreographer, Wardrobe Mistress and Set Designer, but, best of all, Casting Director.
It was difficult to find the best part for myself – the good or bad fairy – but I finally decided on Deadly Nightshade, as it seemed to be the more dramatic role.
I was a fairy at last, but with green lips and a pointed hat. It was the good fairy who wore satin and tinsel. If I could have seen into the future, I might have been disappointed with my choice.
A few years ago, I took my granddaughter to the Theatre Royal to see ‘Cinderella’. I was pleased to see that she thoroughly enjoyed it in spite of the rival attractions of mobile phones and computers – bit there would be no balancing on silver balls for her.
Her role model would never be the Fairy Godmother. The part was played by Danny La Rue, that wonderful old trouper, as glamorous as ever, but in one of his last pantomimes. He was carried on to the stage on a stretcher.
*Ted and Barbara Andrews did not in fact appear in Red Riding Hood, but Julie certainly did.
Danny La Rue (1929 - 2009) was a well-known and popular British performer on TV and stage and celebrated drag artist.
This image is the two-page spread that was given to promote this show in the Theatre Royal season brochure. Here you can clearly see the list of dates and ticket prices.
There is also information about Cinderella workshops that are being offered to schools by the education department at the Theatre Royal, aiming to provide children with a history of Pantomime.
In 2018 audience member Elizabeth Brassington wrote an unsolicited short essay about her Theatre Royal Pantomime memories, which she gave to the theatre. This covers seeing Red Riding Hood in 1950 as a little girl to bringing her granddaughter to see Cinderella in 2003:
“Fairies dancing on silver balls! I could hardly believe my eyes.
When I got home from the theatre, I practised on a tennis ball in the garden, but kept falling off. This was disappointing because I was going to be a fairy when I grew up.
I’d never seen anything so wonderful as the Theatre Royal in Nottingham. With no television and the ‘common’ picture-house judged unsuitable, the pantomime was the first performance I had ever seen.
A career in pantomime was still my intention when I saw a later show at the Royal. It was ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ with Ted and Barbara Andrews and their little daughter Julie*. I wasn’t getting on very well with my tennis ball so forget fairies – being like Julie Andrews would be my new ambition.
My big opportunity came at last – in a Girl Guide production of ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ – when the timid pantomime-goer had become a bossy teenager.
I was not only Producer, Choreographer, Wardrobe Mistress and Set Designer, but, best of all, Casting Director.
It was difficult to find the best part for myself – the good or bad fairy – but I finally decided on Deadly Nightshade, as it seemed to be the more dramatic role.
I was a fairy at last, but with green lips and a pointed hat. It was the good fairy who wore satin and tinsel. If I could have seen into the future, I might have been disappointed with my choice.
A few years ago, I took my granddaughter to the Theatre Royal to see ‘Cinderella’. I was pleased to see that she thoroughly enjoyed it in spite of the rival attractions of mobile phones and computers – bit there would be no balancing on silver balls for her.
Her role model would never be the Fairy Godmother. The part was played by Danny La Rue, that wonderful old trouper, as glamorous as ever, but in one of his last pantomimes. He was carried on to the stage on a stretcher.
*Ted and Barbara Andrews did not in fact appear in Red Riding Hood, but Julie certainly did.
Type
Season Brochure
Location of item
Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall
Rights
Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall
Contributor
Researcher: David Longford
