NEW THEATRE BRISTOL
1867-68 ALADDIN
1868-69 THE CLOTH OF GOLD
1869-70 ROBINSON CRUSOE
1870-71 FORTY THIEVES
1871-72 DICK WHITTINGTON
1872-73 TOM THUMB
1873-74 VALENTINE AND ORSON
1874-75 RED RIDING HOOD
1875-76 LITTLE CINDERELLA
1876-77 BABES IN THE WOOD
1877-78 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
1878-79 HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT
1879-80 SINBAD THE SAILOR
1880-81 JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
1881-82 ALADDIN
1882-83 DICK WHITTINGTON
1883-84 CINDERELLA
PRINCE'S THEATRE BRISTOL
1884-85 FORTY THIEVES
1885-86 RED RIDING HOOD
1886-87 SINBAD THE SAILOR
1887-88 BABES IN THE WOOD
1888-89 ROBINSON CRUSOE
1889-90 SWEET CINDERELLA
1890-91 ALADDIN
1891-92 DICK WHITTINGTON
1892-93 BABES IN THE WOOD
1893-94 FORTY THIEVES
1894-95 LITTLE BO-PEEP
1895-96 CINDERELLA
1896-97 ROBINSON CRUSOE
1897-98 RED RIDING HOOD
1898-99 SINBAD THE SAILOR
1899-00 ALADDIN
1900-01 DICK WHITTINGTON
1901-02 BABES IN THE WOOD
1902-03 CINDERELLA
1903-04 PUSS IN BOOTS
1904-05 THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
1905-06 MOTHER GOOSE
1906-07 HUMPTY DUMPTY
1907-08 JACK AND JILL
1908-09 ALADDIN
1909-10 OLD MOTHER HUBBARD
1910-11 JACK HORNER
1911-12 JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
1912-13 DICK WHITTINGTON
1913-14 ROBINSON CRUSOE
1914-15 HUMPTY DUMPTY
1915-16 GOODY TWO SHOES
1916-17 CINDERELLA
1917-18 OLD KING COLE
1918-19 SINBAD
1919-20 MOTHER GOOSE
1920-21 TOM TOM THE PIPER’S SON
1921-22 ALADDIN
1922-23 JACK AND JILL
1923-24 KING OF THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN
1924-25 GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS
1925-26 ROBINSON CRUSOE
1926-27 THE FORTY THIEVES
1927-28 HUMPTY DUMPTY
1928-29 HOP O’MY THUMB
1929-30 THE QUEEN OF HEARTS
1930-31 GOODY TWO SHOES
1931-32 CINDERELLA
1932-33 ROBINSON CRUSOE
1933-34 MOTHER GOOSE
1934-35 DICK WHITTINGTON
1935-36 BABES IN THE WOOD
1936-37 ALADDIN
1937-38 CINDERELLA
1938-39 JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
1939 -40 RED RIDING HOOD
1943/44 Peter Pan (Hippodrome)
Peter Adamson (Coronation Street)
Teddy Brogden
Billie Brook
Betty Brown
Gerald Fox
Alex Collins
Harry Crossman
Billy Darren
John Ellery
William Luff
1944/45 Aladdin (Hippodrome)
Duggie Wakefield as Widow Twankey
Leslie Barker as Slave of the Lamo
Lucille Gaye as Genie of the Ring
Nancy Brown as Aladdin
Roy Jefferies as Abanazar
Bernard Dudley as The Emperor of China
Rubina Gilchrist as Princess So-Shi
Billy Nelson as Wishee Washee
Chuck O'Neil as The Grand Vizier
A Prince Littler Production
Produced by Sydney Smith
Opened 22nd December 1944
1945/46 Jack and the Beanstalk (Hippodrome)
Eddie Gray as The King
Nita Croft as Jill
Eddie Childs as Mrs Hubbard
Bert Murray as Muggles
James Lomas as The Giant
Jeanette Haley as Princess Annabel
Harold Childs as The Brokers Man
Jack Hartman as The Brokers Man
Audrey Ainsworth as Anne
Lennox Dalton as The Ragman
Stella Kemball as The Spirit of the Beanstalk
Charles Ancaster as The King's Entertainer
With Zola and Mattie as the Cow
Opened 22nd December 1945
A Prince Littler Production
Produced by Cavan Lambart
Written by Marriott Edgar
1946/47 Humpty Dumpty (Hippodrome)
Phylis Adrian
Jean Adrienne
John Lloyd Fillingham
Freddie Frinton
Duncan Gray
Hugh Harden
Charles Little
Mary Simmons
Jeremy Simms
Sylvia Vowels
Fred Wynne
1947/48 Babes in the Wood (Hippodrome)
Arthur Lucan
Jean Adrienne
Bert Platt
Valerie Lawson
Carol Lane
Rita Baker
During a matinee performance of Babes in the Wood on 18th February 1948 a fire broke out backstage and quickly spread towards the stage area bringing that performance to an abrupt end and the extensive damage closed the venue until the next pantomime that December. The fire was suspected to have been caused by a cigarette butt which had been carelessly discarded.
1947/48 Aladdin (Theatre Royal)
Paul Rogers
Jane Wenham
Nuna Davey
Henry Manning
Alexander Gauge
Richard Longman
Jasmine Dee
1948/49 Cinderella (Hippodrome)
Ted Ray
Hazel Bray
Johnny Kavannah
Freddie Foss
Leslie Barker
1949/50 Peter Pan (Hippodrome)
Jane Wren
Derek Rock
Elizabeth Clifford
Christina Forrest
Margaret Lockwood
Philip Ray
John Justin
1950/51 Humpty Dumpty (Hippodrome)
Freddie Frinton
Stan Little
Harry Simms
Jean Adrienne
Duncan Gray
Fred Wynne
Sylvis Vowels
1951/52 Little Red Riding Hood (Hippodrome)
Graham Danvers
Josephine Evans
Leo Franklyn
Bill Futter
Doreen Lavender
Hugh Lloyd
Bert Platt
Sylvis Vowels
Written by Barry Lupino
1952/53 Peter Pan (Hippodrome)
Brenda Bruce
Eric Carr
Jane Wren
Violet Coleman
James Donald
Gordon Murray
Kenneth Williams
Directed by Cecil King
1953/54 Babes in the Wood (Hippodrome)
Peggie Allen
Patricia Baker
Marion Barton
Sally Bazley
Stanley Beedle
Josephine Bell
1954/55 Cinderella (Hippodrome)
Joan Burden
1955/56 Mother Goose (Hippodrome)
Ethel Revnell
Johnny Lockwood
Fay Lenore
Bert Platt
Alison Davies
Susan Wren
1956/57 Jack and the Beanstalk (Hippodrome)
Richard Beamish
Ben Warriss
Fred Kitchen as The King
Mildred Maybe
John East
Maureen Corp
Barry Craine
Alison Davies as Princess
John East
Julia Hand
Jack Hayes as Mrs Hubbard
Jimmy Jewel
A Prince Littler Production
Written by John Morley
Directed by Leonard Dainton
Opened 24th December 1956
1957/58 Aladdin (Hippodrome)
Richard Hearne
Dave O'Gorman
Jean Scott
Ronnie Collis
Alan Webster
1958/59 Sleeping Beauty (Hippodrome)
Tommy Trinder
Bert Brownbill
Patricia Hall
Hazel Lee
Eva May Wong
1959/60 Cinderella (Hippodrome)
Jimmy Edwards
Ted Rogers
Yana
Jill Love
Edit MacArthur
Linda Masters
Robin Palmer
John Taylor
Arthur Howard
Ted Durannte
Written by Oscar Hammerstein
Composed by Richard Rodgers
Directed by Freddie Carpenter
1960/61 Aladdin (Hippodrome)
George Formby
Vanessa Lee
Peter Graves
Valentine Dyall
Jessie Carron
Molly Hare
Geoffrey Webb
Opened 24th December 1960
Written by Cole Porter
Directed by Eleanor Fazan
1960/61 Dick Whittington (Theatre Royal)
Josephine Tewson as Sally
Jessie Matthews as Fairy Snowflake
Tony Tanner as Marmaduke
Ian Burdford as Alderman Bung
John Hewer as Alderman Fitzwarren
Leonard Rossiter as Cicely Suett
Gwen Cherrell as Dick Whittington
Michael Mellinger as The Cat
Denise Hirst as Alice Fitzwarren
Robin Phillips as Simon
Frank Shelley as King Rat
With George Innes and Ian Burford
Musical Director Anthony Bowles
1961/62 Robinson Crusoe (Hippodrome)
Norman Wisdom
Eddie Leslie
Billy Whittaker
Terry Kendall
Patricia Stark
Betty Wheeler
David Fallon
1962/63 Turn Again Whittington (A Tom Arnold production) Hippodrome
Bruce Forsyth (Play Your Cards Right, The Generation Came, Strictly Come Dancing) as Dick Whittington
Elizabeth Larner
Tudor Evans
Valerie Tandy
Jimmy Lee
Penny Calvert
Ken Wilson
Graham Skidmore
1963/64 Sleeping Beauty (A Tom Arnold production) Hippodrome
Morecombe & Wise
Edmund Hokridge
Betty Emery
Nicholas Smith (Are You Being Served, Grace and Favour)
Eddie Molloy
Erica Yorke
1964/65 Merry King Cole (Hippodrome)
Harry Worth
Billy Dainty
Pat Lancaster
1965/66 Puss in Boots (Hippodrome)
The Bachelors
Eddie Molloy
Mike Yarwood
Audrey Jeans
Freddie Davies
Pat Lonsdale
Eddie Molloy
Joanna Mote
Victor Woolf
Ernest Bale
Laura Bowyer
Allan Bruce
Patricia Lancaster
Written by Ludwig Tieck
1966/67 Humpty Dumpty (Hippodrome)
Ted Rogers
The Seekers (pictured below)
Wyn Calvin
Tony Adams (Crossroads)
Wendy Cameron
Virginia Courtney
Andrew Cregeen
Judith Durham
Athol Guy
Keith Potger
Claude Zola
Joy Jakley
Seth Jee
Written by Phil Park
Directed by Stanley Willis Croft
1967/68 Babes in the Wood (Hippodrome)
Edmund Hockridge
Billy Dainty
Michael Malnick
Stan Stennett (Crossroads)
Wyn Calvin
1968/69 Cinderella (Hippodrome)
Mike and Bernie Winters as The Bailiff and Buttons
Avril Angers and Stella Moray as The Ugly Sisters
Brian Hills as Dandini
Noel Crowder as Baron Hardup
Carol Doree as Fairy Godmother
Eric Flynn as Prince Charming
Wendy Lukins as Baroness Nonsuch
Holly Doone as Cinderella
Tessa Jarvis as The Princess of the East
With Eileen Bates and Roy Ashby
1969/70 Aladdin (A Bernard Delfont production) Hippodrome
Bernard Bresslaw (Carry on Films)
Freddie Davies
The Dallas Boys
Yvonne Marsh
Joe Black
Ruth Evans
Richard Avon
1970/71 Robinson Crusoe (A Bernard Delfont production) Hippodrome
Jimmy Clithero
Nat Jackley
Gordon & Bunny Jay
Doreen Barrington
George Barnes
Toni Sue Burley
The Rastellis
Wendy Cameron
Malcolm Cheeseman
Madge Fabian
Written by Phil Park
Directed by Maxwell Wray
1971/72 Dick Whittington (Hippodrome)
Peter Noone
Roy Hudd
Debbie Bowen
Michael Burgees
Ivor Emmanuel
Michael Harvey
Mervyn Webb
Wyn Calvin
Sheila Melvin
David Trevena
Written by Phil Park
Directed by Dick Hurran
1972/73 Cinderella (Hippodrome)
Ronnie Corbett as Buttons
John Inman (Are You Being Served?, Grace and Favour) as Ugly Sister
Clodagh Rodgers as Cinderella
Barry Howard (Hi De Hi) as Ugly Sister
The Patton Brothers
Tony Adams (Crossroads)
Michael Burgess
Mandy Cole
Dorothy Dampier
Charlie Stewart
Will Stirling
Written by David Phetean
Directed by Dick Hurran
1973/74 Aladdin (Hippodrome)
Rod Hull and Emu
Larry Grayson (The Generation Game) as Wishee Washee
Melanie Daniel as So-Shy
Georgina Moon as Princess
Dilys Watling as Aladdin
Freddie Stevens as Grand Vizier
Rob Stuart as Abanazar
Adele Neatrour as Genue of the Ring
Minno Golvala as Slave of the Lamp
Ken Wilson as Widow Twankey
With The Schaller Brothers and Pekin & Pekoe
Written by Phil Park
Directed by Dick Hurran
1974/75 Jack and the Beanstalk (Hippodrome)
Dora Bryan (Carry on Films, Absolutely Fabulous, Last of the Summer Wine) as Dame Durden
Norman Vaughan as Simple Simon
Mark Wynter as Jack Durden
Little & Large as The Queen's Bodyguards
Bertie Hare as Chamberlain
Mary Laine as The Witch
Penny Stevenson as Fairy
Marianne Parnell as The Princess
Dorothy Dampier as The Queen
1975/76 Babes in the Wood (Hippodrome)
Arthur Askey
Dickie Henderson
John Gower
Len Lowe
Mark Wynter
James Vallon
Freddie Stevens
Michael Bates
Brian Crone
Colin Francis
Bertie Hare
Written and Directed by Albert J Knight
1976/77 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Hippodrome)
Charles Hawtry (Carry on Films)
Johnny Dallas
Barbara Drew
James Harman
Bryan Johnson
Aubrey Phillips
Debbie Young
Written by Tudor Davies
Directed by Aubrey Phillips
1977/78 Mother Goose (Hippodrome)
John Inman (Are You Being Served?, Grace and Favour) as Mother Goose
David Trevena as Demon King
Hope & Keen as Mike and Albie
Phillippa Boulter as Fairy Queen
Brian Godfrey as Sammy
Sian Hopkins as Jill
Ken Wood as Farmer Giles
Susan Maughan as Colin
Barbara Newman as Priscilla
Raymond Dowers as The Squire
Written and Directed by Bill Robertson
Choreographed by Rita King
1978/79 Cinderella (Hippodrome)
Harry Worth
Frank Williams
Barry Evans as Buttons
Katie Budd as Cinderella
Blayne Barrington as Prince Charming
Directed by James Gill
Choreography by Pamela Devis
Opened 23rd December 1978
1979/80 Babes in the Wood (Hippodrome)
Jim Davidson (The Generation Game, Big Break, Up the Elephant and Round the Castle, Home James)
Melvyn Hayes (It Ain't Half Hot Mum)
The Krankies
Tammy Jones
1980/81 Aladdin (Hippodrome)
Danny La Rue as Widow Twankey
John Betty
Diana Choy
Susan Danielle
Eric Desile
Robert Edmunds
David Ellen
Geraldine Gardner
George Giles
Mike Potter
Written by Bryan Blackburn
Directed by Dougie Squires
1981/82 Robinson Crusoe (Victoria Rooms Theatre)
Tom O'Connor
Dianne Lee
Stutz Bear Cats
Danny Williams
Gordon Peters
Melanie Daniel
Tommy Wright
1982/83 No Hippodrome pantomime as Annie was playing
1982/83 Dick Whittington (Hippodrome)
Terry Scott (Terry and June, Carry on Films)
Ruth Madoc (Hi De Hi)
Paul Shane (Hi De Hi, You Rang M'Lord, Oh! Doctor Beeching)
Jeffrey Holland (Hi De Hi, You Rang M'Lord, Oh! Doctor Beeching)
Barry Howard (Hi De Hi)
Sally Smith
Dino Shafeek
Susan Holland
Len Howe
Brian Pulman
Written and Directed by by Dick Hurran
1983/84 Cinderella (Hippodrome)
Kenneth Connor (Carry on Films) as Sue Ellen
Lionel Blair (Give Us a Clue) as Buttons
Joyce Blair as Prince Charming
Patrick Cargill as Baron Hardup
Julie Herview as Head Girl
Paula Wilcox as Dandini
Victor Spinetti as Valderma
Anna Neagle as Fairy Godmother
Jacqueline Reddin as Cinderella
Written by Stuart Paterson
Directed by Lionel Blair
1984/85 Aladdin (Hippodrome)
Little & Large
Isla St Clair (The Generation Game)
Alfred Marks as Abanazar
Jack Tripp
The Great Suprendo
Allen Christie
Patsy Ann Scott
1985/86 Babes in the Wood (Hippodrome)
Cannon and Ball as The Robbers
Wyn Calvin as Nurse Merryweather
Eve Graham as Robin Hood
Graham Hamilton as Sheriff of Nottingham
Sarah Weymouth as Miad Marion
Paul Hillier as Will Scarlett
Christopher Mason as Friar Tuck
1986/87 Cinderella (Hippodrome)
Jim Davidson (The Generation Game, Big Break, Home James, Up the Elephant and Round the Castle) as Buttons
Dianne Lee as Cinderella
Roger Kitter (Allo Allo) as Ugly Sister
Freddie Lees
Mia Carla as Fairy Godmother
Allan Stewart
Jon Jon Keefe
Derek Waring
1987/88 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Hippodrome)
Roy Walker (Catchphrase)
Dana as Snow White
Su Douglas
Ronnie Cryer
Derek Richards
1988/89 Aladdin (Hippodrome)
Gary Wilmot as Aladdin
Dooby Duck
Mo Morland and The Roly Polys
Jane Marie Osbourne (Opportunity Knocks)
Gordon Peters
Allan Stewart
Ricky Greene
Written by Chris Denys
Directed by Stewart Morris
Les Dawson pulled out of this production due to ill health and was replaced by Gary Wilmot
1989/90 Dick Whittington (Hippodrome)
Su Pollard (Hi De Hi, You Rang M'Lord, Oh! Doctor Beeching) as Dick Whittington
Derek Griffiths (Playschool)
Dooby Duck
Wyn Calvin
Gordon & Bunny Jay
Ben Warriss
David Redgrave
1990/91 Cinderella (Hippodrome)
Michael Barrymore (Strike it Lucky/Rich, My Kind of People) as Buttons
Annabel Croft (Treasure Hunt)
Frank Williams (Are You Being Served?, Grace and Favour, Last of the Summer Wine)
Willie Ross
Helen Jayne
Simon Fox
Dooby Duck
1991/92 Robin Hood and Babes in the Wood (Hippodrome)
Frank Bruno as Robitt
Little & Large as The Robbers
Patsy Ann Scott as Maid Marion
Sarah Thomas (Last of the Summer Wine) as Fairy
Damien Williams as Little John
Frankie Desmond as Nurse Krystle
Ben Richards as Alan A Dale
Phil Rose as Friar Tuck
Tony Monroe as Will Scarlett
Forbes Collins as The Sheriff of Nottingham
1992/93 Jack and the Beanstalk (Hippodrome)
Emily Symons (Richmond Hill, Home & Away, Emmerdale)
Billy Pearce
John Inman (Are You Being Served?, Grace and Favour)
Geoffrey Hayes (Rainbow)
Bungle, Zippy & George (Rainbow)
Hazel & Paul Kidd
Sam Kenny
Christopher Farries
1993/94 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Hippodrome)
Dana as Snow White
Andrew O'Connor as Muddles
Sulie Branscombe
Peter Aiton
Michael Sands
Ken Gibson
1994/95 No Hippodrome panto as Picwick starring Harry Secombe was playing
1995/96 No Hippodrome panto as Scrooge starring Anthony Newley was playing
1996/97 Dick Whittington (Jim Davidson productions) Hippodrome
Jim Davidson (Big Break, The Generation Game, Up the Elephant and Round the Castle, Home James)
Melanie Stace (Des and Mel)
John Virgo (Big Break)
Roger Kitter (Allo Allo)
John Bardon (Eastenders)
1997/98 - Peter Pan (Hippodrome)
Andy Ford
Ted Rogers
Liz Ewing
Pauline Hannah
(This was a short 7 show run making way for Les Miserables)
1998/99 - No Hippodrome panto as Phantom of the Opera was playing
1999/00 - No Hippodrome panto as Les Miserables was playing
2000/01 Peter Pan (Jim Davidson Productions) Hippodrome
Brian Blessed (Flash Gordon) as Captain Hook
Michaela Strachan (The Rally Wild Show, The Hit Man and Her) as Peter Pan
2001/02 - No Hippodrome panto as Disney's Beauty and the Beast the musical was playing
2002/03 Dick Whittington (Jim Davidson Productions) Hippodrome
Jim Davidson (Big Break, Home James, The Generation Game, Up the Elephant and Round the Castle)
John Virgo (Big Break)
John Lyons (A Touch of Frost)
Roger Kitter (Allo Allo)
Louise Landon
2003/04 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Qdos pantomimes) Hippodrome
Lily Savage/Paul O'Grady as The WIcked Queen