Swansea Grand announce that Strictly glitter-ball winner and Casualty Favorite Joe McFadden and Swansea’s personal West Finish main woman Hayley Gallivan will be a part of the beforehand introduced Kev Johns and Matt Edwards on this 12 months’s spectacular Pantomime Magnificence and the Beast 14 December 2022 to fifteen January 2023.
Joe McFadden is finest recognized for his portrayal of trauma surgeon Raf DiLucca in BBC hospital drama Casualty and as twinkle-toed winner of the glitter-ball trophy on Strictly Come Dancing in 2017. Amongst many his in depth TV credit embody Heartbeat, Cranford, The Crow Highway, Intercourse Chips and Rock ‘n’ Roll, Choose John Deed. Joe isn’t any stranger to the stage having appeared in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Lease, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and lots of extra together with most up-to-date The Mirror Crack’d. He has performed in pantomime throughout the UK for additionally showing within the Previous Vic’s Aladdin with Sir Ian Mckellan and says:
“There’s nothing higher than panto to carry the neighborhood and household collectively – it unites folks in the very best approach. That is simply going to be the most effective night time out out and I can’t wait to fulfill the audiences in Swansea”
Welsh Musical Theatre singer of the 12 months (2005) Hayley Gallivan will be a part of Joe on stage within the title position of Belle. The West Finish main woman has appeared in exhibits together with Oliver, A Midsummer Night time’s Dream, Ragtime, The twenty fifth Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Grease, Spring Awakening and as standby Elphaba in Depraved. Swansea born and bred Hayley is a giant fan of panto and tells us her love of theatre and efficiency got here from as a toddler watching the pantomime at Swansea Grand.
“I really like being in Swansea it’s my dwelling, so to be again right here at Christmas, doing what I really like with such an incredible forged goes to be actually particular”
This 12 months marks a brand new partnership between Think about Pantomimes and the Swansea Grand Theatre who can be bringing a brand-new manufacturing which, alongside all of your favorite panto substances, will embody spectacular LED screens and animation. Swansea Grand Theatre Supervisor Grant McFarlane says of the present:
“What a Christmas cracker of a forged. This 12 months’s panto goes to be a wonderful festive deal with with its dynamic digital results, animation and oodles of enjoyable and frivolity. Don’t have a beastly Christmas; ebook your tickets at present.”
When an smug Prince is cursed to reside as a beast, his solely hope of salvation is to seek out love earlier than the final petal falls from a magic rose. When fairly village woman, Magnificence, comes into his life, is that this the prospect he has been ready for?
Magnificence and the Beast will you’ll want to make you snort, cry and fall in love with a number of hilarious and furry characters; so, ebook your tickets now and uncover if Magnificence can see past appearances and be taught to like a beast!
Tickets are on sale now at swanseagrand.co.uk or go to imaginetheatre.co.uk
