Photo: Stuart Mackey
IT’S count-down for Limerick Panto Society, into final weeks of singing, dancing and acting into 2017 at Lime Tree Theatre. The show opens December 28 into January 9, booking now at www.limetreetheatre.ie
They have Snow White to rescue, her story reinvented by John Finn (aka Sherlock Holmes on her trail) “and around about now, all hell breaks loose,” admits PRO Damien Shaw. “We are going well though, with a lot of the dance numbers finished and most of the choral work done”.
What’s the craic with our heroine, played by Emma O’Driscoll?
He’s impish: “Snow White is a very lovely, lovely girl and she has a very handsome father as king…whom I play. Her mother has died and her dad the King feels she needs a good stepmother and marries again. But the Queen has other ideas for Snow White as she feels the girl threatens her beauty.”
Photo: by Stuart Mackey
We all know a poisoned worm is in the apple fed to the princess.
“We really want all the boys and girls to cry out to Snow White not to eat the apple as the Queen is devious”. Oh yes, she is! Don’t eat it, Snow White!
One of the original twists is making the Panto Dame the villain, so Tim Cusack queens it up this, his 32nd year on stage with this Society.
Long standing pal Damien Shaw has great praise too for music director Morgan Roghan, who belts up and down from Kilrush to perfect the chorals involved.
Also for local acting schools who provide oodles of talent.
“Spotlight Stage School and Expressive Arts each do seven shows and this helps the kids as 14 performances is such a big commitment to ask of young children. We have two children’s choruses of 25 to 30 per show and we have our own Panto Society chorus of perhaps 35, from age 15 years upwards”.
Photo: Brendan Gleeson
With this vim and vigour ramping up action, and the lively band of five led by Mike Hinchy, Enable Ireland is a lucky beneficiary as charity partner.
Buy your ticket direct from them at 061-301830 or email Ann Enright at aenright@enableireland.ie
