Your ultimate panto guide for Merseyside 2023/24

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Actors up and down the country are gearing up to take on iconic roles in a number of much loved pantomimes - including here on Merseyside. Wether you go with friends or take the kids. We've got our extra special festive roundup of the best and the brightest pantos on offer in Liverpool coming up for you.

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00:00 It's as British as fish and chips, bank holidays and the BBC.

00:05 Pantomime season is well and truly upon us and we have a special guide to the pantos

00:10 on offer in Merseyside this festive season.

00:12 Oh no we don't, oh yes we do.

00:15 Fee-fie, fo-fum, there's giant amounts of festive fun at the Floral Pavilion with Jack

00:20 and the Beanstalk.

00:21 On their farm in Merriedale, Jack, his mother Dame Trott and brother Simon haven't a bean

00:26 to their name.

00:27 Jack, how Daisy's gone dry and worse still, the village is being destroyed by an evil

00:31 giant.

00:33 Starring soap star Hayley Tamerden as the Vegetable Fairy, best known for her roles

00:37 in Emmerdale and Coronation Street as well as winning the fifth Dancing on Ice series.

00:41 This production's full of sparkling sets, lavish costumes, song and dance numbers and

00:46 bags of audience participation.

00:48 That runs until Sunday 7th January at the New Brighton venue.

00:53 Shakespeare North Playhouse are taking visitors on a whirlwind adventure to the English countryside

00:59 this Christmas time with the help of Toad, Ratty, Mole and Badger.

01:03 The Wind in the Willows is a timeless tale of friendship, courage, consequence and bravery.

01:08 When Mole forfeits his seasonal cleaning for the lure of the luscious riverbank, he has

01:13 no idea of the thrilling and slightly chaotic journey that he and his friends are about

01:18 to embark on.

01:19 Featuring live music that is on at the Cockpit Theatre until Saturday 13th January.

01:26 Aladdin is flying into St Helens Theatre Royal this Christmas.

01:29 An adventure story of good triumphing over evil with gorgeous sets, dazzling costumes

01:34 and plenty of audience participation.

01:37 Emmerdale star Liam Fox makes his panto debut in the role of evil Abanaza and panto royalty

01:44 Leanne Campbell appears digitally as a magical junior of the mirror.

01:48 That runs until Sunday 14th January.

01:50 Liverpool's Royal Court Christmas shows back.

01:53 The Scouse Dick Whittington.

01:55 Now Dick was lying in bed when a scary hairy fairy came to him in a dream.

02:00 If he was to go to London he'd become Lord Mayor.

02:03 How brill is that?

02:04 But London is 212 miles away.

02:06 Why not become Lord Mayor of Liverpool instead?

02:10 There's a live band and some pretty rude words so do leave the kids at home for this one

02:14 that runs until Saturday 20th January.

02:19 The Everyman's annual rock and roll panto will be Cinderella.

02:22 While you might think you know the story, this is the fairy tale told in their own style.

02:27 There'll be outlandish and sparkling costumes, plenty of plot twists and surprises and the

02:32 show's bursting with rock and pop hits.

02:35 That runs until Saturday 20th January.

02:38 Direct from the London Palladium, The Wizard of Oz is coming to the Liverpool Empire this

02:42 Christmas starring JLS as Aston Merigold, as the Tin Man and RuPaul Drag Race UK winner

02:48 The Vivian as the Wicked Witch of the West.

02:51 Featuring iconic original score from the Oscar winning film including Over the Rainbow, Follow

02:56 the Yellow Brick Road and We're Off to See the Wizard.

02:59 That is on until Sunday 7th January.

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