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The Star Project Theatre School hits the Worcester Spotlight!

The Star Project will be arriving in Worcester next February 2022 revealing an extraordinary opportunity for the children of the local community.

What is on offer? The Star Project Worcester will be launching Musical Theatre classes for children at the brand new multi-millionpound Whittington Village Hall, recently completed in September and offering two fantastic studio spaces to explore Drama, Singing and Dance. The project will run on a Monday evening for children aged 4-18 years. This venue offers a bright, happy and airy space for theatre students to rehearse, with good parking right outside and beautiful views across the Worcestershire countryside.

If your child is looking to build confidence and be part of something wonderful giving them tools that they can transfer into all areas of their school and home life, The Star Project would love to meet your family. The Star Project will be accepting 45 students only from across the Worcester area. To register for a place on their open day on Monday 28th February 2022 please express your interest to worcester@thestarproject.info. Children of all abilities and experience are welcome.

STARFEST – Musical Theatre Festival Next summer 2022 The Star Project will be hosting STARFEST, their first outdoor Musical Theatre festival for children in Worcestershire. All Star Project students will have the opportunity to explore, rehearse and perform many exciting West End and Broadway Musicals. History of The Star Project The Star Project has been delivering Musical Theatre Workshops across Worcestershire and Birmingham for the past 15 years. With successful projects in Barnt Green, Cofton Hackett and Droitwich bursting at the seams! Providing young people with many opportunities including the chance to star in a movie, perform on many West End stages and audition for professional work with London casting agents.

The Star Project has seen thousands of young people walk through its doors over the past few decades, delivering the highest standard of training in Musical Theatre from industry artists and professionals fresh from Stage and Screen and an exciting and professional approach to building children’s confidence, courage and skills in the arts!

Many of our students go on to train at BOA and London Theatre Schools whereas others choose to transfer their skills into fantastic careers outside of the arts. Either way The Star Project will leave its magical mark on their childhood.

Megan 19, a Star project Alumni said “I attended The Star Project since I was 6. It created a passion in me and contributed hugely to the confident, imaginative and positive adult I am today”

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The Civic

www.thecivicstourport.co.uk 18th December

A Stourport Christmas Join Stourport Coral and Stourport Brass Band for an evening of Christmas Songs and Music to start your Christmas week off in style. Start Time: 7pm. Adults: £10.00 Concessions: £5.00.

22nd December

Santa’s Best Christmas Ever The Santa Show 2021: Santa’s Best Ever Christmas – the show where every child gets a present from Santa! Honalee Media are delighted to present a brand new Christmas show… “It’s always the most wonderful time of the year, full of peace and love, family and friends – so why does Santa think that this Christmas is going to be the best one ever… can you guess? Dotty the Elf thinks Santa is planning a surprise Christmas party, Pompom the Penguin thinks Santa has been making Christmas crackers, and Dasher the Reindeer thinks Santa has got their biggest Christmas tree ever – do you think they’re right? Or do the other reindeer know? They all seem very excited in their stable…”Join Father Christmas and friends in this brand new, festive, musical, interactive adventure to make 2021 Santa’s Best Ever Christmas! Start Time: 11am & 2pm Adults: £10.50 Concessions: £9.50. 21st – 29th January 2022 Monday Night Group Pantomime Monday Night Group present their annual pantomime – Jack and The Beanstalk. It’s a family show most suitable for 2-7 year olds, where every child will receive a specially wrapped present from Santa – after the most Christmassy Christmas show ever, HO-HO-HO! Songs include children’s favourites Rudolph the RedNosed Reindeer, Jingle Bells, The Hokey Cokey, The Twelve Days Of Christmas, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, and many more! www.mondaynightgroup.org Special Offer £36 for a group of four.

The Courtyard

www.courtyard.org.uk 4th – 31st December

The Snow Queen The Courtyard’s Children’s Christmas Show: Time 55 mins. Come on an epic adventure at The Courtyard this Christmas with an enchanting new version of Hans Christian Andersen’s timeless story, The Snow Queen. Best friends Gerda and Kay are inseparable, but when the Snow Queen steals Kay away and threatens to turn his heart into a lump of ice, Gerda sets off on an extraordinary adventure to save her best friend. On her way, she meets lots of magical and mysterious characters, who help her discover her true strength. Featuring original songs and interaction aplenty, this energetic and exciting show celebrates the

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things that make us different and the value of true friendship. Tickets from £7.50.

Until 8th January 2022 Jack & The Beanstalk The larger than life family pantomime! Fee! Fi! Fo! FUN! Have the climb of your life at The Courtyard’s GIANT family pantomime for 2020-21, Jack and the Beanstalk. Jack and his poor old Mum are down on their luck… when Jack sells his beloved cow, all he gets is a measly bag of beans. But these are no ordinary beans! When a huge beanstalk appears in the garden, Jack realises his extraordinary adventures are about to begin…So join us for a giant journey at Hereford’s biggest pantomime, featuring all the ingredients for the perfect Christmas family treat! Complete with a dastardly villain, a hapless comic and hilarious panto dame, as well as bags of slapstick fun! Adults only on Friday 10 December, 8pm, Friday 17 December, 8pm, Friday 7 January, 8pm Relaxed performance 3rd January Tickets from £12.

29th January

Treasure Island

Treasure Island is Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale of pirates and buried treasure from Bristol to a faraway Island. “Pieces of Eight! Pieces of eight!” yells Captain Flint, the parrot. This book is also where the phrase “You ho ho and a bottle of Rum!” comes from. Meet Jim Hawkins, a young lad who gets himself caught up in an adventure across the seas.

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Little Red Riding Hood

Worcester Live

www.worcestertheatres.co.uk 20th - 30th January 2022 Kay’s Theatre Group - Little Red Riding Hood The 2022 Pantomime will be Kays’ 67th production! Little Red Riding Hood is an amateur production, directed by Paula Dymock As always Kays promises to bring you a first-rate panto with an all-around, traditional family adventure filled with fun and laughter. Kays Theatre Group has a long and colourful history and started from a talent contest at the Public Hall in Worcester organised by Bill Hill in 1954. Kays Sports and Social Committee decided to enter a Variety Act and the participants called themselves “The Happy Go Luckies” all of them employees of “Kays” Catalogue Company. £13.50.

Follow the story as Jim meets Captain Smollett, Billy Bones and the most famous pirate of them all Long John Silver. Barking Dog’s two talented actors (with the help of some puppets and children from the audience) present this exciting tale. With original music and audience participation as well as use of puppetry and mime, this is ideal for any children interested in travel, pirates, adventure, Music or Drama. Tickets £7.50 Duration: 50 minutes Suitable for children aged 5 – 10 years old.

Malvern Theatre

www.malvern-theatres.co.uk 9th December – 2nd January Peter Pan Flying into Malvern for Christmas 2021 is the swashbuckling adventure, Peter Pan starring West End and Emmerdale star Tom Lister as Captain Hook, Malvern’s favourite funny man Mark James as Smee and Lloyd Warbey from Disney Junior’s Art Attack as Peter Pan. Tickets from £12.

Market Theatre

www.themarkettheatre.com 17th December

A Christmas Carol Theatre Tours International in association with Maverick Theatre Company presents A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Olivier Award winning Guy Masterson, who has previously played to full houses at The Market Theatre with his Animal Farm and Under Milk Wood, now presents Dickens’ classic festive fable. Famed for bringing multiple characters to vivid life, Masterson gives us Scrooge, Marley, the Fezziwigs, the Cratchits, Tiny Tim et al in a riveting, performance that will dazzle, enchant, and linger long in the memory. Guaranteed to get you into the Christmas Spirit - in many more ways than one! 8pm Standard: £15 Student: £8.

13th – 22nd January 2022 The Great Santa Kidnap by Roy Chatfield It’s Christmas Eve. Fergus, Santa Claus’s Chief Forebrownie, is bustling about preparing Santa’s sleigh. However, three goblins, Sneergripe, Snottle and Bug, plot to kidnap Santa Claus and hold him to ransom! It is up to Tommy and Anna to find Santa and safeguard Christmas for the children of the world.Performance dates:13th to 15th and 20th to 22nd January 2022 at 7:30pm Matinées 15th and 22nd January at 2.30pm. The Great Santa Kidnap is a full length family play. It replaces the traditional LADS pantomime, which regrettably is impractical to produce in 2022. This amateur production of The Great Santa Kidnap is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www. concordtheatricals.co.uk TICKET PRICING Standard:£11 Child:£6 Family:£37 Family price is for 2 adults and 3 children.

Norbury Theatre

www.norburytheatre.co.uk 7th – 16th December

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Mirror Mirror on the wall who is the fairest of them all? Will Snow White manage to escape from the evil Queen Avarice and her henchman Slurp and marry our hero the handsome Prince Ferdinand of Farawaia?Maybe with the help of Chuckles the Jester, Edna Bucket and her seven new friends will win over evil. Add to this the incompetent due Justice Quill and Scribbles and Fairy Good Fortune to help Snow White win the day, as well as a wonderful chorus of villagers.The newly revised script based on the original Grimm Brother’s tale includes all the well-loved ingredients of traditional family pantomime 7.30pm, Saturday and Sunday matinee 2.30pm. No evening performances on Sunday. Tickets £12/£10.

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Number 8

www.number8.org 6th – 11th December

Pershore Operatic & Dramatic Society: Snow White Come back to far, far away with PODS, who are thrilled to present their new pantomime spectacular. In the enchanted land of Perscoria, ruled by an evil Queen, lives her kind and gentle stepdaughter, Snow White. Every day the wicked Queen asks her Magic Mirror, “who is the fairest of them all?”, and every day, the Mirror obligingly feeds the Queen’s vanity, until Snow White’s fateful birthday, when the Mirror announces that Snow has now surpassed the Queen’s beauty. In a fit of rage, the Queen plots to get rid of Snow White, who finds herself on the run. Lost and alone in the forest, she is rescued by mysterious figures from her past, while her friends, the lovable Muddles and the fabulous Nurse Betty, help a dreamy Prince on his mission to find his one true love. Packed with classic and modern showstoppers alike, and enough bad jokes to last until next Christmas, this is the perfect way to plunge into the festive spirit. At present this event is not available to book online, to book please contact Box Office on 01386 555488. 2.30pm & 7.30pm Tickets: Mon £11, Tue – Thu £13, Fri £15, Sat matinee £11, Sat evening £15.

Palace Theatre

www.redditchpalacetheatre.co.uk 11th December – 2nd January Jack & the Beanstalk FE FI FO FUM!! Redditch is in for some festive fun. From the team that brought you Cinderella comes Jack and the Beanstalk, a thrilling tale of adventure... magic beans... a mysterious land way up in the clouds... a hidden treasure... and of course a terrifying Giant. Poor young Jack has his head in the clouds! His poor mother is at her wits end, Dame Trot can’t afford to pay the rent on her dairy but when she asks him to sell his beloved cow Daisy at the fair he comes back with just a handful of beans. But there’s magic in the air and a giant to defeat, a princess to marry and those few beans set him off on a huge adventure which will take him to new heights. Packed full of all the things you’ve come to expect from a Palace panto, stunning sets, dazzling costumes, great music and dance routines, plenty of daft comedy and audience participation. Book today to experience this giant of a show! Tickets from £18.50 - £28.00.

Worcester Live

www.worcestertheatres.co.uk 3rd December - 2nd January Beauty & The Beast Worcester Theatres’ pantomime is BACK! Join the Worcester Repertory Company for a tale as old as time in this spellbinding family pantomime, Beauty and the Beast! Can courageous Belle, with her friends Jacques and Dame Madame Bonbon, defeat the Wicked Witch of Worcester and release the Beast from his curse? Come and join them all on the fairytale adventure of a lifetime. Packed full of panto treats galore, don’t miss this all-singing, alldancing family-favourite pantomime! Swan Theatre Tickets £10 - £20.

The Phoenix Theatre

www.phoenix-theatre.org.uk 5th – 15th December

Dick Whittington Our Star Theatre Company proudly present Ross-on-Wye’s very own Panto Dick Whittington. Dick is off to London Town to make his fortune. On the way, he teams up with a trusty feline friend, falls in love, gets a job at the local sweet shop and has to stop evil King Rat’s master plan to take over London town! Come and join us for one massive adventure! Full of familiar faces to The Phoenix Theatre, Our Star Theatre Company are delighted to be back with their very own Panto! Full of fun and laughter for the entire family, this super silly slapstick cast are ready to bring some Panto magic to Ross-on-Wye! Tickets £14 & £10 for children. 7pm, matinees at 2pm on Sat 8th, Sun 9th & Sat 15th.