Nottingham Playhouse have announced that Scott Armstrong completes the cast for Beauty and The Beast, Kenneth Alan Taylor’s 37th panto for the theatre, which runs from 3 December 2021-15 January 2022.

Armstrong, who has also appeared in the national tours of Motown The Musical and The Producers, will play the Beast alongside everyone’s favourite dame John Elkington who plays Madame Fifi in his seventeenth pantomime for Nottingham Playhouse, Lisa Ambalavanar (Sleeping Beauty, Nottingham Playhouse) as Belle, recent drama school graduate Megan Cerys-Holland as Veronique, Tom Hopcroft (The Comedy about a Bank Robbery, West End and tour) as Maurice, Bradley Judge (Pippin, Hope Mill Theatre and Southwark Playhouse) as Gaston, Clarice Julianda (Priscilla Queen of The Desert, UK tour) as Florence and 2021 Mountview graduate Myles Miller as Jaques The Lad.

Adding to the magic and mayhem, glitter and glamour for all the family this Christmas, The Youth Chorus will be made up of local talent: Annie Besson, Serai Bondswell, Samuel Brown, Milly Caswell, Ruby Hardy, Nathan Hayward, Hannah Keen, Delinda Lee, Shakiyah Mitchell, Georgia Reid, Donté Slater, Stanley Syalon and George Turton.

The on-stage performances of Beauty and The Beast will be accompanied by an on-demand digital version of the show which will be filmed in front of a live audience on 7 December, with a special watch party on 13 December. There will also be a Christmas Eve Special digital-performance on 24 December.

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