Performance

Venue	City Varieties Music Hall
Town	Leeds
County	West Yorkshire
From	13th December 2000
To	14th January 2001
When	Check with theatre for times.
What is currently on at City Varieties Music Hall (V973)

Dick Whittington

T142457670
Pantomime about a boy and his cat who set off to London to make their fortune - usually with Dick's Brother (Idle Jack) and mother - there they usually meet Baron Fitzwarren and sail away to seek treasure. In some versions King Rat goes with them to steal the treasure, in others they reach a land infested with rats where they haven't heard of cats and Dick does a deal, returning home rich he becomes Lord Mayor of London. Based extremely loosely on a real person (Richard Whittington, 1350 to 1423), there is a statue of the cat outside the Whittington Hospital in North London where Dick is supposed to have heard the bells say "Turn again Whittington, Lord Mayor of London" as he trudged away from the city. First recorded panto on this theme was in 1814.

Archive :: production:T142457670, panto:S5912, venue:V973

Production details

Special Performances

30 Dec 00 Sign Interpreted
5 Jan 01 Sign Interpreted
13 Jan 01 Sign Interpreted

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Company

Producer	Peter Sandeman (for City Varieties Music Hall)
Performer	Michael Hobbs (King Rat)
Performer	Stephanie Dooley (Alice Fitzwarren)
Performer	Wayne Perry (Dick Whittington)
Performer	Mark Scott (Alderman Fitzwarren / Sultan of Morocco)
Performer	Lucy-Jo Hudson (Tommy the Cat)
Performer	Darren Lawrence (Warfarin)
Performer	Richard Sykes (Sarah the Cook)

CORONAVIRUS: All UK venues closed on 16th March 2020, restrictions were lifted on 19th July 2021. Please note that iUKTDb archive listings between March 2020 and July 2021 may not be accurate as we did not receive details of all rescheduled and cancelled shows.

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