Matt Baker & Jenny Ryan to star in world’s biggest panto THE WIZARD OF OZ

The World’s Biggest Panto is back and lands at Birmingham’s Resorts World Arena on 22 & 23 December 2021.

After amazing previous productions of Elf, Cinderella and Peter Pan, The Wizard of Oz is the brand-new spectacular Christmas show set to lift the art of arena panto right over the rainbow.

The production will be performed on the world’s biggest panto stage, along with two mobile stages that travel around the arena as the yellow brick road unfolds in front of a 6,000 seat audience.

The star-studded cast includes Matt Baker (Countryfile, The One Show), Jenny Ryan aka ‘The Vixen’ (The Chase) and new comedy star Jordan Conway.

Baker said: “This Christmas I'm swapping the green fields of Our Farm in the Dales for the Emerald City! I'll be an acrobatic, laser wielding wizard and I might even bring the Children in Need Rickshaw along for the ride. It's a show packed with spectacular entertainment and fun with a brilliant script and cast to boot. I can't wait for my festive tour on the yellow brick road!”

Ryan said: “The spectacular size of the show is breathtaking. There are giant video screens with animated computer graphic backgrounds and an ice-covered Emerald city skating scene that is magical. With a ten-metre tall roof there is plenty of flying, with cirque stars as the crows and the witch actually flies on a broomstick around the arena. What’s also fun is that I am known as one of telly’s top TV quizzers, yet I have to contend with a man with no brains at all.”

Tickets go on sale on 1 October at 9am here.