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The Theatre Royal in Nottingham, England, is a theatre venue in the heart of Nottingham City Centre and is owned by Nottingham City Council as part of a complex that also includes the city's Royal Concert Hall. [1] The Theatre Royal attracts major touring dramas, opera, ballet, West End musicals and an annual pantomime. [2]
He started writing Pantomimes in 1962 in Oldham, and then moved to the Nottingham Playhouse to write there for more than 30 years. [2] He was artistic director of Nottingham Playhouse for seven years. According to Nick Clark of The Stage magazine, "He is one of the UK’s foremost pantomime writers, directors and, until recently, dames." [1] [3 ...
Drury Lane pantomime is a long tradition at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, dating from the early 18th century. In every Christmas season, a pantomime is produced which has a leading place among the many other pantomimes of the capital. Other pantomimes are sometimes produced during the rest of the year.
Maudsley made his panto debut in 2016 as Dame Trott in Jack and the Beanstalk, at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham. [5] He returned to pantomime the year after, playing a completely different part – the Genie of the Lamp, in Aladdin, at the Swansea Grand Theatre. [6] In 2020 he made another panto appearance as Kenneth the Cabin Boy in Peter Pan ...
The son of William Bradfield, a civil servant, Bradfield was born on 13 June 1866, educated at the Grocers' School, Hackney, and first appeared on stage in 1889 in a pantomime at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham. [1] In 1888, before taking up the theatrical life, he had married Jessie B. Best. [2]
When Julian Wylie died suddenly in December 1934, he had several Pantomime productions ongoing, and they were taken over by Arnold. [3] Arnold staged his first London pantomime in 1937, a production of Aladdin. He made at least one venture into Shakespeare with a production casting Ivor Novello as Henry V at Drury Lane in 1938. [2]
It is owned by Nottingham City Council and is part of a complex that also includes the city's Theatre Royal. [1] The Royal Concert Hall's striking modern architecture has proved to be a city landmark at the heart of Nottingham City Centre, opposite the more recently built The Cornerhouse complex. [citation needed]
He spent the next two decades in variety theatre, before getting his TV break on Sunday Night at the London Palladium in the late 1950s. [ 2 ] After appearing in over a dozen pantomimes, often in unremarkable or unfulfilling roles, Dainty was finally persuaded, in 1964, to play the pantomime dame opposite Harry Worth 's Old King Cole at the ...