The Masked Singer UK star Jason Manford will be on the panto stage once again this Christmas.
The Waterloo Road actor has lined up a three-week stint at the Opera House Manchester's production of Cinderella, from December 14, 2024, through January 5, 2025.
Tickets are available through ATG — priced from £13 with a transaction fee of £3.95 — for a range of matinee and evening performances on most dates during the three-week run.
This will be Jason's third year starring in panto at the Opera House — this time he'll be playing the dashing Prince Charming opposite Sarah Vaughan as Cinders.
The cast also features drag legend Myra DuBois as Cinderella’s Wicked Stepmother and stage superstar Wendy Mae Brown as the Fairy God Mother. Panto favourite Ben Nickles will play Buttons.
Jason Manford in Cinderella I Opera House Manchester
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The Opera House's adaptation of the beloved fairy tale features "all the traditional pantomime ingredients Manchester audiences expect", including "laugh-out-loud comedy, stunning scenery, beautiful costumes and plenty of boos and hisses".
Jason starred in Jack and the Beanstalk at the Opera House last Christmas, after he'd debuted at the venue the year before in Peter Pan.
The comedian has an established stage career, having starred in the West End in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. He later led national tours of The Producers and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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This year, he returned to the West End stage in a live concert version of Something Rotten! at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, with Celebrity Big Brother contestant Marisha Wallace and former Coronation Street star Richard Fleeshman.
Telly fans know and love the actor from dramatic roles on telly in Ordinary Lies and Death in Paradise, as well as secretly competing as the Hedgehog on The Masked Singer UK.
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