Hello!! Maria here! Im new to SMP and join them for their brilliant Beauty and the Beast panto this year as one of the ‘dancing villager ‘ettes!’ LOVE IT!!

With all songs and dances set we hit the streets of Enfield and joined in the amazing atmosphere of the Parade of Lights last Sunday – following the serene Beauty and her Beast on their amazing float and lead by our carnival queen Marian, we danced and waved our way around Enfield – the looks on the faces of the children as they saw the float was just magical!!

Rehearsals this week consisted of run throughs and recaps – the amazing cast are all off-book now and are just fabulous – audiences are in for a treat! Songs that stay in your head for daaayyyss! Oh – and the sign of a great script?! When you’ve heard the jokes a hundred times during rehearsals but they still crack you up every time!!

We keep going to ensure this show is the best it can be – and it will be AMAZING! For me, I’ve loved every second of singing and dancing with this amazing bunch of talented people and I can’t wait to be on stage with them and share it all with the audiences and kiddies!!

Our cast have also been out and about this week entertaining shoppers at Love Your Doorsteps Pearsons event and visiting some of our local Beavers!

Don’t miss out!! Book your tickets for the most beautiful love story ever told with a whole lot of gags, fun and panto magic!

Tickets are available already via the Millfield Theatre website and you can book by following the link below.

https://www.millfieldtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/beauty-and-the-beast/

The last few weeks have certainly seen us busy bees at SMP! We’ve been filling in much of the remaining choreography, scenes and musical numbers, we even set the bows – as ever with Fay Kemal’s trademark flair!

The Ladies were excited to be fitted for their dresses, but obviously us male chorus were not present for that, so we can look forward to being pleasantly surprised at the costume call, just like you will be when the curtain rises!

In general, this is a really special time in any rehearsal process, where all the groundwork starts to come together, and we suddenly have something resembling the show you will see!

There is still plenty of polishing to be done before we present it to you on the night of course, but it’s definitely starting to feel like a real show!

At rehearsals for Beauty and the Beast it is a genuine thrill to be in the room with so much talent, enthusiasm and good humour, all of them bringing their absolute ‘A Game’! If that sounds like fun to you, we can’t wait to share it with you!

Book your ticket now and look forward to experiencing it yourself on the night!

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Keep your eyes on the website as we’ll be bringing more updates from the cast with all the latest gossip from from rehearsals with our show blog ‘Beauty and the Blog’.

Tickets are available already via the Millfield Theatre website and you can book by following the link below.

Hey gang! Hannah here! You might remember me from a number of last years virtual shows with SMP (including Agatha Twisty and the murder in Pantoland). Beauty and the Beast will be my first “in person” show with this wonderful bunch, and I’m so grateful to have been given the opportunity to be your Beauty!

Our second rehearsal kicked off with learning the fantastic “Better when I’m dancing”, and I don’t mean to brag, but it’s amazing. It really is one of those songs that will have you bouncing away in your seat.

We also now have our opening number! The amazing Fay (our choreographer, if you aren’t familiar, which, if you’ve been around for longer than me, you should be) has done some fab work with this ONE, AND is the ONLY one who could have smashed out that number so quickly. (I’m sorry I’ll leave the terrible puns our script writer, Warren)

We also have a number of scenes from the first act blocked off. This is the first time a lot of us have been in a rehearsal together, and already the giggles have started. Lets hope we can get them all out before show week. (We will… I think…)

We also got to go through our final number with the oh so talented Kate, who has created some stunning harmonies that will be sure to blow you away. The cast have done so well at picking them up and the sound is GLORIOUS (if I do say so myself)

Am I gushing about how wonderful this show is going to be just because I’m in it? Of course not! It truly is going to be a great time. However there is only one way to find out…

Book your tickets below and we’ll see you in January!

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Keep your eyes on the website as we’ll be bringing you updates from the cast each week with all the latest gossip from from rehearsals with our show blog ‘Beauty and the Blog’.

Tickets are available already via the Millfield Theatre website and you can book by following the link below.