Tickets selling fast for next pantomime
Making his pantomime debut as the villain is actor, comedian, writer, radio and TV host, director and painter Casper de Vries.
Tickets already selling fast for Joburg Theatre’s next pantomime season, the 2019 Jack and The Beanstalk.
In her inimitable style, acclaimed writer, director and South Africa’s queen of pantomime Janice Honeyman will again tell the story of poor country boy Jack, the family cow, the magic beans, the enormous beanstalk, the unfriendly giant and the enchanted goose that lays the golden eggs.
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Adding the giant’s henchman – a truly evil panto villain – and the essential good fairy, Janice Honeyman’s Jack and The Beanstalk, ‘a giant of a pantomime’, will have audiences in awe at the show’s sheer spectacle and Jack the Joller’s madcap efforts to be its courageous hero.
Making his pantomime debut as the villain is actor, comedian, writer, radio and TV host, director and painter Casper de Vries.
Returning to Joburg Theatre following her triumphant success in the role of Shug Avery in The Color Purple is Lelo Ramasimong as the good fairy.
Lelo became a household name in SA when she made it to the top 10 on Idols.
Since then she has performed as a vocalist in major venues across the country and was voted by Seventeen Magazine as the Top Young South African Artist.
Lelo’s theatre career has also included featured roles in Dreamgirls, African Footprint and Burn the Floor.
The role of Jack the Joller brings back actor Zolani Shangase to Joburg Theatre.
Zolani is currently enjoying popularity in his recurring role on DStv’s Moja Love in the telenovela Hope.
His stage credits include a year in the West End of London with The Lion King and in South Africa Janice Honeyman’s Aladdin, The Rocky Horror Show, Show Boat, Orpheus in Africa and The Color Purple.
Also featured in Jack and The Beanstalk are Germandt Geldenhuys as the Dame, currently enjoying great success as Louis on TV’s Binnelanders; Neo Motaung as Mrs Skwashie Mangowashie, another The Color Purple star who, as Sofia, earned standing ovations nightly; 22-year-old Dezlenne Ulster-Weale as Raspberry Rose and panto stalwart Clive Gilson as Dom-Dik Canari.
Completing the all-South African company are Cameron Botha, Ashleigh Butcher, Olivia Cloud, Gugu Dhlamini, James McPhail, Arno Meyer, Given Mkhize, Noni Mkhonto, Katlego Nche, Nolo Song, Justin Swartz and Carmen Tromp.
Jack and the Beanstalk will be staged at The Mandela stage at Joburg Theatre from October 30 to December 22.
Call 0861 670 670 or visit www.joburgtheatre.com
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