A photo of this year’s cast of Dick Whittington (and his meerkat) which is taking place at the Signal Box Theatre at the National Railway Museum.
The cast met yesterday at the museum for their first site visit at their new home whilst York Theatre Royal is closed for a £4.1million redevelopment project.
The UK’s longest serving pantomime dame Berwick Kaler said of this once-in-a-lifetime pantomime:
Artistic Director Damian Cruden has gone to great lengths to try and get rid of me but his latest effort is quite ingenious. However the laugh is on him because I have found a substitute theatre just a couple of hundred yards away from my beloved Theatre Royal – the one thousand seat Signal Box Theatre at the National Railway Museum. So while Cruden is looking for his ancestors below ground, me and ‘me babbies and bairns’ will be enjoying Dick Whittington (and his meerkat) which promises to be a hilarious and unique experience.
This will be Berwick’s 37th year as York Theatre Royal’s pantomime dame.
Photo credit: Anthony Robling
The cast are (left to right):
Front: Danielle Mullan, Berwick Kaler, Suzy Cooper, David Leonard, Lauren Newton, Charleigh Webb, Martin Barrass
Back: Vincent Gray, AJ Powell, Jack Lansbury, Jake Lindsay, Harry Hughes