Dick Whittington

14 Dec 2023 - 31 Dec 2023

The Hope Street Theatre

Dick Whittington will be headed by one of the city’s favourites and Liverpool Live’s Lesley Butler as the evil Queen Rat and John garfeild-Roberts who brought the house down last year will be donning the frock once again as Sarah the Cook. Liverpudlian Michael Irvine- Hall best know as one of the faces of bongo’s bingo will be playing the title role Dick Whittington, while Phil Perez – UK’s face of the family board game pop up pirate, makes a welcomed return as Alderman Fitzwarren and his band of long lost family members.

St Helen’s based Kieran Maleedy will bring humor, silliness and slapstick as the Silly Idle Jack, and LIPA graduate Faye Griffiths will be loud and proud as the Fairy Across the Mersey. Roxanne Male will be making her Just Entertainment debut as sidekick Ratasha. And Just Entertainment regular Sarah Collinge from High Jinx UK tour and Blackpool Tower will play leading lady Alice Fitzwarren. Lasly making a return to pantomime, Freya Barnes as Tilly The Cat.

Local performers Lucy McManus (LMA) Harley Boote (Liverpool Theatre School) and Eloisa Goodall will appear as our adult ensemble with the gigantic teams of young performers from Performers Theatre School and Dance Passion.

Dick Whittington is Written and devised by Christopher Jones. Stage Direction John Garfeild- Roberts and Choreography Jenna Bradshaw. Musical Supervision Christopher Jones, Vocal Coach and assistant Musical Director, Liz Legerton. Lighting Design Joe Sanderson. Costumes/ Assistant Director: Sheryl Dean. Set Design Abbie Jones and John Garfield- Roberts. This Pantomime will be produced by Christopher Jones and Sheryl Dean for Just Entertainment Ltd.