Audience members share their post show thoughts on Beauty and the Beast.
Beastify yourself!
We’re running a fun, new competition where we’re asking you to make beastly additions to a photo of yourself, like the examples here, and we’ll enter you into a prize draw to win a pair of tickets to a January performance of Beauty and the Beast!*
Just get a photo of yourself on your computer, make some beastly additions and either:
- email to belgrade.mail@belgrade.co.uk
- post it on our Facebook group
- upload it on our Flickr group
*subject to availability
Kevin McGreevy, who plays Pimple in the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry’s pantomime, Beauty and the Beast, gives us a progress report from technical rehearsals.
Beauty and the Beast’s Lighting Designer, Dave Muir, gives us an update on the show’s Lighting Design during a break in technical rehearsals.
It’s technical rehearsal time for Beauty and the Beast, which is when we make sure that all of the technical aspects of the show work properly and on cue etc.
We caught up with Martyn Davies, the Belgrade’s Head of Sound and Sound Designer for Beauty and the Beast.
Josephine Warren, who plays the Enchantress, and Charlie Ryan, who plays Will-Do-It, interview each other!
The Belgrade’s panto kids are put through their paces
This year we have three groups of children performing in the pantomime. The groups are called Bang, Flash and Wallop.
Choreographer, Esther Collins has been putting them through their paces: “The panto kids worked really hard last night. We finished the UV skeleton scene, which is the hardest dance (and the longest!) in the panto for them.
“They were all sooooo good that I may just have to buy them all chocolate for the technical rehearsal week!”
Beauty and the Beast’s Designer, Sarah Burton, shows us the panto’s Wolf and Bat masks, which were designed by Sarah and then made by Sherri Hazzard.
There is Nothing Like a Dame - Coventry’s favourite cross-dresser, Mr. Andy Hockley, in various Belgrade Theatre pantomimes from recent years!
A word from the choreographer
“Just finished choreographing the Bad Boys scene with Andrew Gordon-Watkins (Eugene) and Kevin McGreevy (Pimple).
“Trying not to make it too rude! The boys have got great energy – they need it for the routine. They also need to warm up every morning – ready for the splits at the end of the song!”
Esther Collins
Coventry’s favourite Dame, Andy Hockley, is fitted for one of his many costumes by Beauty and the Beast’s designer, Sarah Burton, along with Margaret Lock and Mandy Brown from the Belgrade’s Wardrobe Department.
