Cinderella

05 Apr 2025 - 21 Apr 2025

St Helens Theatre Royal

The world’s best-loved fairytale is set to cast a spell over St Helens this Easter – and family audiences are being invited to join Cinderella for a right Theatre Royal ball.

The Regal Entertainments production promises an enchanting experience complete with lavish costumes and sets, fantastic choreography and a soundtrack of songs to get you dancing in your seat.

Coronation Street’s Kimberly Hart-Simpson returns by popular demand to reprise the role of the titular heroine in a rags-to-riches story packed with glass slippers, magic pumpkins, a fairytale carriage, outrageous Ugly Sisters and a fabulous Fairy Godmother.

Cinderella tells the story of a beautiful girl reduced to a life of servitude by her two ugly stepsisters. But all of that is about to change when an invitation arrives for a grand ball at the palace. With a bit of magic, and help from her loyal friend Buttons, Cinderella is transformed into the belle of the ball. But what will happen when the clock strikes midnight?

It runs at St Helens Theatre Royal from 5-21 April 2025. Tickets are on sale now costing from £18.

Best-known for playing the role of Nicky Wheatley in the world’s longest-running television soap opera, Kimberly Hart-Simpson’s theatre credits include Rita in Educating Rita, Dreamers at Oldham Coliseum, Balance at The Royal Exchange and Tinkerbell in The Magical Adventures of Peter Pan in Liverpool, while her other screen credits include Hollyoaks, Brassic and Celebrity Haunted.

She previously appeared as Cinders at St Helens three years ago. But the talented actress’s connections with the theatre go back much further as before she got her big break, she worked in the wardrobe department at the venue, creating brilliant costumes for Regal Entertainments’ shows.

Kimberly will be joined on stage by Ben Keith as Prince Charming, Conor Barrie as Dandini, Lewis Devine as Buttons, Rachael Wood as the Fairy Godmother, and Shania Pain and Richard Aucott as the Ugly Sisters.

The show is written by Liam Mellor and directed by Chantelle Joseph. Nazene Langfield is choreographer, and Callum Clarke is music supervisor.