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This year\u2019s Christmas spectacular, \u2018Sleeping Beauty\u2019, will combine wonderful music, song and dance, colourful costumes, memorable characters, and loads of audience participation, in a lively and sparkling Christmas adventure.<\/p>\nThis year\u2019s Christmas spectacular, \u2018Sleeping Beauty\u2019, will combine wonderful music, song and dance, colourful costumes, memorable characters, and loads of audience participation, in a lively and sparkling Christmas adventure.<\/p>\n
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, a beautiful princess is born. The entire kingdom is delighted, apart from the evil fairy, who places a curse on the Princess, so that she will prick her finger on a poisoned spinning wheel on her 16th<\/sup> birthday! Who could possibly break such a terrible spell? And who will be brave enough to challenge the evil fairy? And what mad shenanigans will occur in the meantime? Come to The Market Place Theatre this Christmas to find out\u2026<\/p>\n Featuring all your favourite panto characters, \u2018Sleeping Beauty\u2019 is guaranteed to be a fun-packed traditional family pantomime for all ages! Fun, frolics and laughter abound in this spectacular take on the thrilling and timeless classic. Audiences will recognise some familiar names in the cast line-up with Debra Hill playing the role of Sleeping Beauty-Full, Michael Lavery as the Prince, Karen Rush as everyone\u2019s favourite baddie Maleficent, and of course, the fabulous Stephen Beggs back in the \u2018funderful\u2019 role of Nanny Magee.<\/p>\n Performances will run from Saturday 2 December, right up until Christmas Eve, at a variety of times to suit all ages! Ticket prices range from \u00a310 to \u00a315. Tickets are selling fast, with the best availability remaining on the last week.<\/p>\n To book your tickets for the most exciting pantomime of the season, phone the Box Office now on [028] 3752 1821<\/strong>. The house is sure to be packed to the rafters for this annual festive hit, so don\u2019t be caught napping \u2013 book now, before it\u2019s too late! We\u2019d hate for you to snooze out! There are BSL signed, captioned and relaxed performances during the run. Please contact the Box Office for full details.<\/p>\n Tickets for all performances can be booked through the Box Office on [028] 3752 1821, or online at www.marketplacearmagh.com<\/a> And to keep up-to-date with the latest news at the Market Place Theatre, you can follow us on Facebook (www.facebook.com\/marketplacearmagh<\/a>) and Twitter (www.twitter.com\/mptarmagh<\/a>) where you will find all the latest information, special offers and video previews.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s the one you\u2019ve all been waiting for! The panto dreams are made of is arriving at Armagh\u2019s Market Place Theatre. This year\u2019s Christmas spectacular, \u2018Sleeping Beauty\u2019, will combine wonderful music, song and dance, colourful costumes, memorable characters, and loads of audience participation, in a lively and sparkling Christmas adventure. Once upon a time, in … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15436,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15433\/revisions\/15436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}