Performance

VenueBeck Theatre
TownOuter London
CountyGreater London
From14th December 2001
To12th January 2002
WhenCheck with the Box Office for times.
What is currently on at Beck Theatre (V296)

Dick Whittington

Dick WhittingtonT0240438645
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.


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Company

Producer Charles Vance
Director Hugo Myatt
Choreographer Ruth Carr
Lighting Mark Alexander
Other Pete Brown (musical supervision)
Performer Elisha Gazdowicz (Dick Whittington)
Performer Ryan Maloney (Idle Jack)
Performer Hugo Myatt (King Rat)
Performer Tweedy and Alexis (Captain and Mate)
Performer Ruth Carr (The Spirit of Bow Bells)
Performer Marty Swift (Sarah the Cook)
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