Dick Whittington

T628641025
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:T628641025, panto:S5912, venue:V76

Performance

Venue	Theatre Royal
	Other spaces: Guildhall
Town	Bury St Edmunds
County	Suffolk
From	8th December 2000
To	14th January 2001
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Company

Company	The Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds
Performer	Tim Freeman
Performer	Dennis Herman
Performer	Paul Mihell
Performer	Harry Myers
Performer	James Nickerson
Performer	Nick Sutcliffe
Performer	Sara Williams
Performer	Anita Wood
Performer	Lucy Byford
Performer	Nicola Hart
Performer	Chris Hart
Performer	George Pearce
Performer	Harriet Kendall
Performer	Hannah Barham
Performer	Dawn Shand
Performer	Carrie Bassett
Performer	Donna Aspinall
Performer	Jocelyn Harris
Performer	Alice Bushell
Director	Chris Batsone
Design	Will Hargreaves
Director	Nick Meredith (music)
Choreographer	Angela Morgan

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