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"Aladdin @ The Lowry

Natalie Anglesey

FESTIVE FUN: Casey-Lee Jolleys, Bill Ward and Cleveland Campbell
THIS is the last of the big Christmas shows to open with fans of Coronation Street and Emmerdale packed into the Lyric Theatre to see their telly favourites in action.

After three and a half years playing Weatherfield's bullying builder Charlie Stubbs, actor Bill Ward trades one baddie for another and plays Abanazer, Aladdin's wicked uncle with relish and a little bit of magic.

Bolton resident, Casey-Lee Jolleys, the phoney Thai bride Orchid in The Street, plays the lovely Princess Yasmin and looks and sounds good.

She's partnered by young David Flynn as Aladdin who has a pleasant personality and a good singing voice.

Emmerdale fans roared their approval for Cleveland Campbell, who was Danny Daggart, and now plays the cool Genie of the Lamp, complete with iPod, text messages and an American accent.

But the real star of the show for many was Stockport comedienne Barbara Nice, whom you'll recognise from Phoenix Nights. She is a very funny, down to earth Slave of the Ring and the audience absolutely loved her performance.

Flying Carpet

This Pele Production had spectacular scenery, including a magical Flying Carpet as well as a transported palace.

But some of the cast need to tighten up a bit on cues as they seem to be waiting for laughs that didn't come. However that's easily remedied.

The real pity is that the music appeared to be recorded and the dancers often forgot to sing along. However the principals who sang live performed well although the ballads fitted in better than the thumping chart-topping hits and in your face choreography.

Nevertheless, the audience had a ball and this pop musical version of the story of Aladdin had some of them dancing on their feet at the end.

Definitely worth the price of a ticket.

Aladdin is on at The Lowry until Sunday, January 7. £10 - £24. Call the Box Office on 0870 060 1768 for tickets or click here."

Quick Johnny!!! Run!!!! It's Janice!!!! ;)

Oh wonderful, I can see me ringing mel soon to arrange tickets! :lol: We went to see her in Cinderella last year and she was fantastic!! :D I'll try and find the post mel did on the show. Give us two ticks!

Hiya, Yes I am on at The Lowry as The Slave of The ring . xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ive also got a show coming up in March at The Plaza -which is a blinking big theatre so spread the word please that would be great . I think its the 11th of march . its on the Stockport Plaza web site any way Lots of love xxxxxxxx

*thud* that is the sound of Johnny fainting :lol:

Hi Barbara & welcome to the Forum :)

You heard that too then?? ;)

Yes, welcome to the Forum Barbara. I hope you enjoy your time on here with us. (thumbs up)

Johnny???? You can get up now m'love ...... on second thoughts ...... best not!!! :huh:

Hi Barbra very nice of you to join, welcome to the forum :)

Welcome to the forum Barbara,nice to have you here (thumbs up)

Hiya, I am back stge at the lowry writing this . Widow twanky is just chasing aladdin to Benny Hill music -smashing xxx

Oooh it sounds fantastic Barbara :lol:

A word of warning though - this Forum becomes highly addictive very quickly :o Ooops, looks like I'm too late LOL

Hi Barbara!! (wave)
great to have you here! welcome to the forum :)

Ey up Babara!

Glad the show is going really well, and i'm overwhelmed you even took the time out to post us a message whilst you wern't on stage! Thats a first! :D

Its a pleasure to have you here, especially for me! :lol:

Ay up Johnny!!! You managed to get to your feet and make it to the ol' PC then??? Or did you crawl in case you're legs went again. ;)

Barbara, you really have no idea how fond of you this lad is!!! :lol:

Aww! How cute! Nice of you to drop by.

How fab that you were writing this backstage !! How funny.

Hope its all going well. xx

Back again as Alladin and princess Jasmine sing a duet . Little do they know that Abanazar is about to send the poor lad down a cave .
Have a happy Christmas evryone xxxxxxxx

:lol: glad your having a good time, how many more shows are there?

and Merry Christmas to you aswell

Its so good having you on here babara!, Then you can give us all the updates on all your stand up work etc! That is if you wanna share it with us! :lol:

There's a huge section about a fundraiser which you attended this year, if you get a chance check it out HERE

What an honour! Barbara on our forum. We love ya here!

Have a Great Christmas. :P

Hiya , All best wishes for Christmas and new year.
Bit knackered now as panto very hard work plus all the wrapping and stuffing etc.. Speak to you in 2007! Barbaraxx

Merry Christmas and happy new year to you too Barbara!! Have a good'un!! (thumbs up)

Oh yes babara! I'll be stuffing a lot of birds this christmas aswell!

Have a happy one! (thumbs up) :D

Oh Johnny :rolleyes:

Thank God we have you to provide all the Christmas innuendo!!! ;) :lol:

Hope you have a good one too, Barbara and all the best to you and yours for the New Year

Karen xx

Thanks Barbara,Merry Christmas to you (thumbs up)

And best wishes from me and the little Maxster as well Barbara. Little Maxwell is my grandson. named, after Maxwell Bygraves, and was born with just half a functioning heart and is waiting for a transplant. You'll see him dotted all over the forum as our friends here spoil him rotten.

Hope you have a fantastic 2007 and hope we can look forward to seeing you on screen very soon.

Marlene

Hi. I'm new to the forum.

I've just watched series 1 and 2 of phoenix nights in about 3 days!
Watched em before but wanted to watch em again!

Anyway... What I would love to know is what happened to the fantastic Beatrice Kelley (Maureen) after series 1?

I think she's brilliant in everything she's done, but was disappointed to see her replaced in 2nd series. And, even more annoyingly, if you look carefully at Brian looking at the photo of the staff of the Phoenix club at the start of series 2, Beatrice has been deleted and replaced by the new character! That's a bit harsh.

I've scoured the net and this forum, and cant find anything about it. Seems strange how she's the only character who didn't sign up for series 2! I wonder if she'll be in series 3?

Sorry I've posted it here - it won't let me start a new topic for some reason.

Thanks! stu pid

Hi Daz!! (I take it you're a Daz -- if not say so!! ;)) Someone with good taste!! ;)

Welcome to the board. Nice to see you getting stuck in already. I'm afraid I can't tell you why Beatrice didn't come back because I ...don't ...... know, but welcome anyway.

The 'not being able to post' thing isn't anything personal, we've had trouble with Spammers and at the moment this is the only way we've found we can stop it!!! :lol: However, you can post elsewhere, as you've probably gathered, so I suggest adding your twopenneth to "I Know Who Y'Are", Where In The World Are You, and Member Pics if you're that way inclined and because we like to know who we're talking to!! (thumbs up) Nah. We're just dead nosey really!!! ;)

Ah, right. If it stops spammers then I don't mind! They're flooding forums aren't they?

I hope someone knows about beatrice. I'm surprised actually that noone really mentions her on here... She's not in the ' favourite characters ' bit.

I guess she did have a smallish part, but I think she was perfect for the role. She could read the phone book and I'd laugh. I find her endearing!

I think we need a new topic just for her :)

offt Favourite Characters?? :huh: Where's that?? If you're referring to this section, again it's nowt personal. We try to give each member of the cast attention but some are more active than others and what they do is more 'out there' so to speak. I didn't realise she was in Ideal until I caught a rerun the other night. It's just the way the cookie crumbles. However if you do hear anything about what she's up to feel free to share it with us. We don't intentionally snub people over here -- we're too nice for that!! ;)

She's in Ideal? I love that programme!

She was on eyes down too, which was rubbish of course.
And she was on My parents are aliens, apparently.

She was -- don't know if it was a one-off or what, but I caught it while channel-hopping! ;)

We're going rapidly off topic here, which is something we try to avoid, so I'll start off a Beatrice topic for you!!! ;)

i went to watch aladin on the 29th, babz was fantastic! i was sat there with tears rolling down my face!