Winter finally arrived with the snow in late November and suddenly everyone realised that Christmas was just around the corner !
For Hemel Hempstead Theatre Company , that meant that panto was only just two weeks away and there was still SO much to do .
If you haven ’ t already bought your tickets , there may still be a few left with show dates from Thursday to Sunday December 5-8 and Thursday to Sunday December 12-15 , with matinees on both Saturdays and Sundays . The panto is Cinderella , complete with a magical fairy coach , bedecked with twinkling lights , comic Ugly Sisters ( one very tall and the other much shorter ), an enthusiastic children ’ s chorus , a thigh-slapping Prince Charming and , of course , the lovely Cinders herself .
Backstage , a small army of supporting members have been meeting on Saturdays to paint the set , built by our Premises Manager , John Eames . Those of you , who know the Boxmoor Playhouse , may not have envisaged it with stage flats laid out over much of the hall floor and pots of brightly coloured paint on every side ! and at HHTC we ’ re already planning for the Next Thing – Alan Ayckbourn ’ s hilarious Bedroom Farce , which involves four couples and takes place in the bedrooms of three of them . Beds are ruffled and tempers frayed in a play which director Mariam Gaballa-Gill describes as : “ hilarious , touching and fast paced ” and is scheduled for next March .
But more of that next month . For the present , I shall just wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year .
However , pantos ( and Christmas ) will be over very soon ;
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