Performance

Venue	Playhouse
	Other spaces: Neville Studio
Town	Nottingham
County	Nottinghamshire
From	30th November 2001
To	19th January 2002
When	Check with Box Office for times
Prices	From £9.00. To £13.00.
What is currently on at Playhouse (V457)

Dick Whittington

T0550345501
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:T0550345501, panto:S5912, venue:V457

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Company

Director	Kenneth Alan Taylor
Author	Kenneth Alan Taylor
Design	Gary Underwood
Design	Natalie Humphries
Lighting	Jason Taylor
Performer	Paul Gabriel (Dame)
Performer	Lewis Phillips (Idle Jack)
Performer	Rebecca Little (Dick Whittington)
Performer	Amanda Horlock (Fairy Bowbells)
Performer	Rob Parry (Alderman Fitzwarren)
Performer	John Gully (King Rat)
Performer	Julia Harrison Jones (Alice)
Performer	Adrienne Lane (Tommy the Cat)

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