2011 Panto Preparations
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8th January 2012 - The 2011 pantomime season has drawn to a close, so as usual here are the Imagine Theatre Interesting Facts for this pantomime season
During the 2011 Imagine Panto Season…
The curtain went up 535 times on an Imagine Theatre pantomime
Over 45,000 costume changes took place
Dawn and the team in our wardrobe department prep’d over 6,000 costume pieces
Head office posted out over 3,500 items of mail during preparation for the season
Ian, Phil and the stores team have moved over 5,250 scenic pieces in and out of our stores
We mixed 5,000 litres of slosh for our slapstick routines
There were over 4,000 pyrotechnics let off
There was over 1.9km of text written on the show reports
We obtained 318 licenses for children to perform on stage across 41 local education licensing authorities
We employed 249 people to work on our productions
So far this year the Imagine team have watched 120 pantomimes
And over 270,000 people watched an Imagine Theatre panto
Thank you so much to all the casts, crew, venue staff, audiences and anyone who has helped us in any way for this pantomime season. We couldn't have done it without you and we are forever grateful.
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4th November 2011 - The annual Christmas Party
It's just 2 days until our first panto of the season goes into rehearsal so it's time for our annual christmas party. This year it's fallen even earlier than Bonfire night!!
click here for the video!
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11th March 2011 - What's happening at Imagine?
Click here to watch our video and take a peak behind the scenes
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It's the first pre-production meeting of the 2011/12 pantomime season. The team from L-R is Dawn (costumes), Ian (stores), Steve (M.D.), Phil (stores), Louise (production assistant) and Iain L (Creative). Sarah is taking the photo. During this meeting we're working through all 11 of our 2011 pantomimes, planning sets, costumes, props, special effects etc. The actions from this meeting will form the bulk of our work for the next 6-8 weeks until we have our next big meeting like this.
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