Performance

Venue	Palace Theatre
Town	Redditch
County	Worcestershire
From	12th December 2000
To	7th January 2001
When	Check with theatre for times.
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Dick Whittington

T01924743458
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:T01924743458, panto:S5912, venue:V104

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Company

Producer	Extravaganza Productions (in association with The Palace Theatre and Redditch Borough Council)
Performer	JeremyTurner-Welch (Dick Whittington)
Performer	Brian Croucher (Alderman Fitzwarren)
Performer	Jeff Bennett (Sarah the Cook)
Performer	Stevie Bee (Idle Jack)
Performer	John Atterbury (King Rat)
Performer	Andrea Dickinson (Alice Fitzwarren)
Performer	Virinia Harrison (Fairy of the Bells)
Performer	Daniel Hogarth (The Captain)

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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