by Joel Horwood

The warmest of Lyric welcomes to our annual pantomime, one of our favourite times of the year when we love to welcome so many people from our local community. Whilst we know that many local residents couldn’t imagine Christmas without a trip to the Lyric, for other families and school groups this might be one of your very first visits here. Whether you are new to the Lyric or not, we hope that you will visit us again and enjoy all we have to offer – from our main house productions, to our children’s studio shows on at weekends and holidays, to our wide range of classes and activities for young people in theatre, dance, music and digital which take place in our fantastic Reuben Foundation Wing.

Watch out for our young ensemble panto-ing it up a storm. This is the eighth year the Lyric has given local young people their first professional opportunity. It’s just one example of how the Lyric nurtures and develops young talent, and ultimately changes lives.

Wishing you all a Happy Christmas. We hope to see you again soon.

Sean Holmes Artistic Director

Sian Alexander Executive Director

TO OUR PANTOMIME

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK 2017

FIND THE BEANSJack has spilled her magic beans all over the programme. Help her

by finding the missing beans hidden throughout this programme.

They look like this:

JasmineAllyson Ava-Brown I love Panto because… I love Christmas and what could be more festive than ushering in the Christmas season for everyone that comes to watch! Pure joy!

Allyson has recently been nominated for Best Performance for Etienne Sisters in the UK Theatre Awards and won Best Unsigned Act in the MOBO Awards.

Theatre credits include: The Quiet House (Birmingham Rep/Park Theatre); Etienne Sisters, Beauty & The Beast, Crowning Glory, Jack & The Beanstalk, Martina Cole’s Dangerous Lady (Theatre Royal Stratford East); In Bed (London Theatre Workshop); Snakes And Ladders (UK Tour); Puss In Boots (Hackney Empire); Les Miserables (Queens Theatre); The Swallowing Dark (Liverpool Playhouse/Theatre503); The Wiz (Birmingham Rep/West Yorkshire Playhouse); Julius Caesar and The Tempest (RSC).

Television credits include: Doctors, Casualty, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Bear Behaving Badly, The Wrong Door, Basil Brush Show, Eastenders, Sea Of Souls, Kerching!, Dogs of War, Ambition to Live,

BIOGRAPHIES

www.lyric.co.ukJACK AND THE BEANSTALK 2017

ArthurAllyson Ava-Brown I love Panto because… I love Christmas and what could be more festive than ushering in the Christmas season for everyone that comes to watch! Pure joy!

Allyson has recently been nominated for Best Performance for Etienne Sisters in the UK Theatre Awards and won Best Unsigned Act in the MOBO Awards.

Theatre credits include: The Quiet House (Birmingham Rep/Park Theatre); Etienne Sisters, Beauty & The Beast, Crowning Glory, Jack & The Beanstalk, Martina Cole’s Dangerous Lady (Theatre Royal Stratford East); In Bed (London Theatre Workshop); Snakes And Ladders (UK Tour); Puss In Boots (Hackney Empire); Les Miserables (Queens Theatre); The Swallowing Dark (Liverpool Playhouse/Theatre503); The Wiz (Birmingham Rep/West Yorkshire Playhouse); Julius Caesar and The Tempest (RSC).

Television credits include: Doctors, Casualty, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Bear Behaving Badly, The Wrong Door, Basil

JasmineAllyson Ava-Brown I love Panto because… I love Christmas and what could be more festive than ushering in the Christmas season for everyone that comes to watch! Pure joy!

Allyson has recently been nominated for Best Performance for Etienne Sisters in the UK Theatre Awards and won Best Unsigned Act in the MOBO Awards.

Theatre credits include: The Quiet House (Birmingham Rep/Park Theatre); Etienne Sisters, Beauty & The Beast, Crowning Glory, Jack & The Beanstalk, Martina Cole’s Dangerous Lady (Theatre Royal Stratford East); In Bed (London Theatre Workshop); Snakes And Ladders (UK Tour); Puss In Boots (Hackney Empire); Les Miserables (Queens Theatre); The Swallowing Dark (Liverpool Playhouse/Theatre503); The Wiz (Birmingham Rep/West Yorkshire Playhouse); Julius Caesar and The Tempest (RSC).

Television credits include: Doctors, Casualty, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Bear Behaving Badly, The Wrong Door, Basil

JasmineAllyson Ava-Brown I love Panto because… I love Christmas and what could be more festive than ushering in the Christmas season for everyone that comes to watch! Pure joy!

Allyson has recently been nominated for Best Performance for Etienne Sisters in the UK Theatre Awards and won Best Unsigned Act in the MOBO Awards.

Theatre credits include: The Quiet House (Birmingham Rep/Park Theatre); Etienne Sisters, Beauty & The Beast, Crowning Glory, Jack & The Beanstalk, Martina Cole’s Dangerous Lady (Theatre Royal Stratford East); In Bed (London Theatre Workshop); Snakes And Ladders (UK Tour); Puss In Boots (Hackney Empire); Les Miserables (Queens Theatre); The Swallowing Dark (Liverpool Playhouse/Theatre503); The Wiz (Birmingham Rep/West Yorkshire Playhouse); Julius Caesar and The Tempest (RSC).

Television credits include: Doctors, Casualty, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Bear Behaving Badly, The Wrong Door, Basil Brush Show, Eastenders, Sea Of Souls, Kerching!, Dogs of War, Ambition to Live, and Holby City.

JasmineAllyson Ava-Brown I love Panto because… I love Christmas and what could be more festive than ushering in the Christmas season for everyone that comes to watch! Pure joy!

Allyson has recently been nominated for Best Performance for Etienne Sisters in the UK Theatre Awards and won Best Unsigned Act in the MOBO Awards.

Theatre credits include: The Quiet House (Birmingham Rep/Park Theatre); Etienne Sisters, Beauty & The Beast, Crowning Glory, Jack & The Beanstalk, Martina Cole’s Dangerous Lady (Theatre Royal Stratford East); In Bed (London Theatre Workshop);

ArthurAllyson Ava-Brown I love Panto because… I love Christmas and what could be more festive than ushering in the Christmas season for everyone that comes to watch! Pure joy!

Allyson has recently been nominated for Best Performance for Etienne Sisters in the UK Theatre Awards and won Best Unsigned Act in the MOBO Awards.

Theatre credits include: The Quiet House (Birmingham Rep/Park Theatre); Etienne Sisters, Beauty & The Beast, Crowning Glory, Jack & The Beanstalk, Martina Cole’s Dangerous Lady (Theatre Royal Stratford

ArthurAllyson Ava-Brown I love Panto because… I love Christmas and what could be more festive than ushering in the Christmas season for everyone that comes to watch! Pure joy!

Allyson has recently been nominated for Best Performance for Etienne Sisters in the UK Theatre Awards and won Best Unsigned Act in the MOBO Awards.

Theatre credits include: The Quiet House (Birmingham Rep/Park Theatre); Etienne Sisters, Beauty & The Beast, Crowning Glory, Jack & The Beanstalk, Martina Cole’s Dangerous Lady (Theatre Royal Stratford East); In Bed (London Theatre Workshop); Snakes And Ladders (UK Tour); Puss In Boots (Hackney Empire); Les Miserables (Queens Theatre); The Swallowing Dark (Liverpool Playhouse/Theatre503); The Wiz (Birmingham Rep/West Yorkshire Playhouse); Julius Caesar and The Tempest (RSC).

Television credits include: Doctors, Casualty, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Bear Behaving Badly, The Wrong Door, Basil Brush Show, Eastenders, Sea Of Souls, Kerching!, Dogs of War, Ambition to Live, and Holby City.

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