Performance

Venue	Harrogate Theatre
	Other spaces: Studio
Town	Harrogate
County	North Yorkshire
From	29th November 2002
To	11th January 2003
When	Check with Box Office for times
Prices	From £7.65. To £14.90.
What is currently on at Harrogate Theatre (V942)

Dick Whittington

T377650231
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:T377650231, panto:S5912, venue:V942

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Company

Producer	Harrogate Theatre
Author	Nicholas Pegg
Director	Lennox Greaves
Design	Kate Stanton
Costume	Kate Stanton
Lighting	Paul Colley
Director	Howard Gay (music)
Choreographer	Beverley Edmunds
Director	Kevin McCurdy (fight)
Other	Jessica Cutler (on the book)
Performer	Alan McMahon (Sarah the Cook)
Performer	Tim Stedman (Idle Jack)
Performer	Lee Payton (King Rat)
Performer	Jemma Hines (Dick)
Performer	Howard Chadwick (Alderman Fitzwarren)
Performer	Catie Marie Entwistle (Alice Fitzwarren)
Performer	Amanda Kernot (Fairy Bow Bells)
Performer	Abbey Norman (Tommy the Cat)

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