Today Sarah is off to the local panto (oh no she isn't! etc)
Snow White & The Seven Dwarves has pulled in the big names of Gok Wan (as "The Man In The Mirror"), Harriet Thorpe "of Brittas Empire fame", top sports impressionist Aaron James, and in the title role, Rebekah Lowings, who trained at Guildford's School of Acting so she's a "local" girl" which is nice.
Aaron seems to have had a bit of work done, and grown a little beard to look more like Paddy McGuinness. If you've forgotten what Harriet looked like at the height of her 90s fame (on the left, pictured with Julia St John):
Of course, the most important people aren't featured - the little people playing the dwarves. The last time Woking had Snow White as its panto in 2016, Warwick Davis played Prof (because of course the traditional names are all Disney copyright). It'll be interesting to see what this year's dwarves are called.
And five years earlier, there was an entire Channel 4 reality show about the actors, looking at how little people find acting life, and following them through panto season and beyond: https://www.channel4.com/press/news/seven-dwarves
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