Blue Lights star and panto legend joins the cast for NI's biggest Christmas show

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Blue Lights star and panto legend joins the cast for NI's biggest Christmas show
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Northern Ireland’s biggest pantomime has already sold a record number of 50,000 tickets

Belfast’s Grand Opera House has announced the cast and creative team for this year's pantomime, set to be one of the biggest shows of the festival season - oh yes it is!

Celebrating her record-breaking 34th year at the Grand Opera House panto, Belfast most loved Dame May McFetridge is staring as Mrs Smee. Joining May on stage are Belfast panto favourites Paddy Jenkins , part of the Oscar-winning cast of An Irish Goodbye and Blue Lights star as Starkey. Audiences can expect a swashbuckling trip to Neverland like never before with this year’s production spectacularly brought to life from page to stage by a talented cast and creative team.

"This year will be no different with heart-stopping acrobatic tricks, captivating displays of aerial combat and astounding special effects. From the talented team that created the Theatre’s recent productions of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears, this year’s pantomime is staged by Olivier award-winning producer Michael Harrison on behalf of Crossroads Pantomimes, the biggest pantomime producer in the world.

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