Review: A beauty of a panto at Grimsby

If you are looking for festive family entertainment, then look no further than Grimsby Auditorium.

It is laughter all the way with this year’s seasonal offering - Sleeping Beauty and The Whinging Wicked Witch.

From the moment the curtain opens you know you are in for a treat as the stage comes alive with music and dancing.

That upbeat energy continues throughout the show as wave after wave of traditional panto fun continues.

A lot of that fun – together with a good deal of magic – comes from seasoned panto-performer Martin Daniels, son of the late, great magician Paul Daniels, as Ma gic Muddles.

Alongside another top panto performer Ian Norton, as Nurse Loosie Laxative – who dons the expected, outrageous and colourful costumes of a true dame – there is a laugh a minute, with both children and adults catered for.

Although playing the ‘Whinging Witch’, Queen Malcontent, Rosanne Priest brings a lot of joy with her fantastic singing voice.

Add to this a dashing prince, Ash Stevenson, with another fantastic voice, a perfect panto princess in Kitty Harris, and Coronation Street legend Ken Morley as King Reginald, you have everything you need for a fabulous family show.

Sleeping Beauty and The Whinging Wicked Witch runs until December 30.

Tickets via grimsbyauditorium.org.uk or call the box office on 0300 300 0035.