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Priory Park Panto Experience will add a special sparkle to Chichester Christmas
SussexWorld
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24/11/2024
Fairy Sparkle dreams of being the fairy on the top of the tree. Santa and Mrs Santa are working their socks off to deliver Christmas on time. But Norman the naughty elf is plotting to ruin everything. It will be up to the audience to save the day.
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Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Always one
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of the great pleasures in Chichester to speak to Vicki Edwards, dear friend of many years
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standing. Now, Vicki, you are doing something really, truly exciting this time. You are
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bringing the Priory Park Panto experience to Chichester. What is it?
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Well, not just me, myself, Katie Bennett, Riley Clark and John Harcourt. We are performing
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the Priory Park Panto experience. It's a cracking little story. It contains all the
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traditional Panto elements that people love. So we've got a sing-along, we've got audience
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participation, we've got a few surprises as well. And it is, we can run from Friday the
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13th through to Sunday the 15th of December, four shows on the Saturday, four on the Sunday,
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one on the Friday. And it is, I hope, going to be a really wholesome, magical, special
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Christmas experience. More festive fun, and you can say this to him, I'm hungry.
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Why is it happening now?
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Why is it, sorry?
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Why is it happening now?
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Oh, why is it happening now? Well, I think the idea was to use Priory Park and the Guildhall
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just for something that was really family focused, that would really deliver on kind
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of that feel-good factor that people love at that time of year. And magic, I don't think
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you can understate magic at Christmas, it's special.
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And you are going to be giving us your Mrs Santa, aren't you?
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I am indeed going to be Mrs Santa, but Mrs Santa with a bit of sass, and she's a modern
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gal.
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And the brains of the operation, you were suggesting?
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The brains, well I think, you know, Santa is the face of Christmas, nobody can dispute
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that. But I think behind every successful man is a woman.
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You are probably right. Now, if this goes really well, who knows, this could be the
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start of a bit of a Chichester tradition, couldn't it? I mean, it's such a lovely venue
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you're walking into.
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It really is, it's a really special venue. I mean, it's historically, it's got some phenomenally
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interesting facts about it. You know, it's been a court, it's been a museum, it hosts
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weddings, now a panto, who knows? I think we need to get through this year first, see
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how we go.
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Fantastic. And tickets, where do people get the tickets?
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Tickets from the Novium box office. There are details that I will post online liberally.
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Fantastic, good. Well, lovely to speak to you. Congratulations on this new venture.
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Can't wait to come and see you. Thank you ever so much.
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