Saturday, 14 December 2024

Snow White Bath 2024 - Reviews

The reviews are starting to come in …

And they’re looking pretty, pretty good.


Once again written by and starring local hero Jon Monie, alongside Dame supreme Nick Wilton, here is panto perfection, a fantastic, funny, fabulous, family-friendly fiesta of daftness and Christmasness all wrapped with every panto cliche you could want, and plenty more besides…

But of course, front and centre are Monie and Wilton, the thinking family’s Chuckle Brothers, a double act that just matures over the years and gets better each time out. Yes the jokes are corny and yes, you have seen some of the routines before, but then this is panto and it’s just what we want.

https://thebathandwiltshireparent.co.uk/2024/12/review-snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-at-the-theatre-royal-bath-2/

Back for his 25th year in panto, the dame, let’s call him Grand Dame Nick Wilton, is huge fun to watch. Dilly Donut’s clothes alone are hysterical – all pink and blues with monster bows and hearts aplenty, but it’s in Wilton’s immaculate sense of timing and his hints that the poor old thing is getting flustered by the pace that the real laughs come – a masterclass of buffoonery. His partnership with Monie is a great double act.

https://stagetalkmagazine.com/p/34994

Featuring a stellar cast led by Olivia Birchenough, Jon Monie, and Nick Wilton, this delightful panto delivers festive fun, laughter, and dazzling spectacle to audiences of all ages…

Adding a touch of flamboyant fun to the proceedings, Nick Wilton’ reprises his role as the dame and Muddles’ long suffering mum, delighting audiences with his larger-than-life personality and increasingly outrageous costumes.

https://www.globalmousetravels.com/bath-pantomime-theatre-royal-bath-review/

(Jon Monie) has established a great on-stage relationship with Nick Wilton as Dame, and with the addition of Emma Norman, this year making a welcome return as the evil Queen, we have a trio of star panto performers at the top of their game, earning lots of laughs, boos and hisses from the excited audience. 

https://www.theftr.co.uk/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-bath-theatre-royal/

Bath favourite Jon Monie returns, in his element, as Muddles alongside Nick Wilton as Dame Dilly Donut.

The pairing is, as always, hugely successful with much laughter and fun along the way. Besides the classic ghost gag, Monie has written an astute parody of Park Life whilst The Twelve Days of Christmas is an absolute blast.

https://www.bathecho.co.uk/opinions/reviews/snow-white-seven-dwarfs-theatre-royal-bath-109167/#:~:text=This%20is%20great%20fun%2C%20with,warmth%20for%20the%20entire%20family

In keeping with Heritage City sensibilities, Christmas shows at TRB celebrate good old fashioned, proper pantomime tradition and offer audiences super-sparkly retellings of age-old fairy tales designed to brighten up the murky deep midwinter… and this year’s brazenly buoyant package ticks all the fabulous festive frivolity boxes…

TRB panto stalwart and writer Jon Monie (plays) Snow White’s best mate Muddles, his super-fast, quickfire asides and instinctive comedy timing aided and abetted by his long-term Christmas season cohort Nick Wilton as Muddles’ ma Dame Dolly Donut; if you’re looking for ridiculously raucous, rollickin’ good fun, Wilton proves, time and again, that there really ain’t nothing like a dame. 

https://thebathmagazine.co.uk/theatre-review-snow-white-the-seven-dwarfs/

The comic duo of Jon Monie and Nick Wilton take centre stage as ever with silly jokes and asides to the audience with traditional routines given a new twist…

Monie plays Muddles, son to Wilton’s buffoonish Dame Dilly Donut, hilarious as ever and flamboyantly got up in a series of outlandish frocks.



Snow White is hilariously funny as panto season starts…

Nick Wilton who plays Dame Dilly Donut is another favourite, having stepped into the shoes of well known and loved Chris Harris, who sadly died in 2014.

Nick has really come into his own and the audience love him, especially his outrageous costume changes.


https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/whats-on/reviews/snow-white-hilariously-funny-panto-9801731

Panto packed with enjoyably silly moments with all the funny, crowd-pleasing moments that veteran pantomime duo Nick Wilton and Jon Monie (as Dame Dilly Donut and Muddles, respectively) have become well-known for by  locaaudiences over many festive seasons.

https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-review-at-theatre-royal-bath-paul-milton








Thursday, 28 November 2024

First day of rehearsals


 

Thursday, 16 May 2024

Another Christmas in Bath!

Really looking forward to being back for my seventh season at The Theatre Royal Bath this Christmas to celebrate my 25th year playing Dame. As well as sharing the stage with the wonderful Jon Monie, it’s lovely to be working with Olivia Birchenough against (we filmed Jon’s online pantomime, Pantomonium at the Blackpool Grand in 2020); Emma Norman (who’s back again after her brilliant “Carabosse” in “Sleeping Beauty” last year); and Kieran Dumont playing head dwarf, Prof ( who I worked with in 2012 at the Assembly Rooms, Tunbridge Wells in his first panto).



Looking forward to making new friends too! Jon’s written another great script and there’s a lot of fun to be had.