Ambassador Theatre Group Productions have announced final casting for the UK and Ireland tour of the pantomime Mother Goose.

Anna-Jane Casey (Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club) will join the show as Cilla The Goose with Mairi Barclay, Becca Francis, Shailan Gohil and Laura Tyrer also confirmed to join the company.

They join the previously announced Ian McKellen as Mother Goose, John Bishop as Vic Goose, Oscar Conlon-Morrey as Jack, Simbi Akande as Jill, Sharon Ballard as Good Fairy Encanta and Karen Mavundukure as Evil Fairy Malignia. The cast is completed by Adam Brown, Gabriel Fleary, Richard Leeming and Genevieve Nicole.

Mother Goose opens at the Theatre Royal Brighton from 3 – 11 December 2022, before a season at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London’s West End. It will then play in Chichester, Sheffield, Wolverhampton, Liverpool, Oxford, Dublin and Cardiff, with further venues to be announced soon.

It is written by Jonathan Harvey, with direction by Cal McCrystal, set and costume design by Liz Ascroft, choreography by Lizzi Gee, lighting by Prema Mehta, sound by Ben Harrison, puppet design and creation by Chris Barlow, and casting by Anne Vosser.

Mother Goose (McKellen) and her husband Vic (Bishop) run an Animal Sanctuary for waifs and strays and live a wholesome life inside an abandoned Debenhams. But when a goose (Casey) flies in, will fame and fortune get the better of them?! Will Ma’s feathers be seriously ruffled? Will Pa tell everyone to get stuffed?! And is their fair life about to turn fowl? Get ready for fairies with hefty vocal chords, puppets with tap dance qualifications and impeccably constructed mayhem that will quack up the whole family. This hilarious family-friendly mother of all pantos is the ultimate theatrical feast full of fun, farce and more than a couple of surprises that will make you honk out loud.

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