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medico Who ’s Catherine Tate is going to check off off one more point on every British actor ’s bucketful list : play a Christmas Pantomime villain !
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Catherine Tate , beloved British comedy queen and possibly the more beloved Donna Noble onDoctor Who , The Office , and her scorching eponymic television show , will top the bill at this year ’s London Palladium Pantomime , Sleeping Beauty , which is a perennial Christmas Panto . Her casting is a big event for the festive extravaganza to keep its tenth day of remembrance since being revived at the Palladium , which itself is a big event . Tate will play the role of panto baddie Carabosse , the loathly poove that puts a curse on the princess that if she pricks her finger , she ’ll die . Palladium panto standout and comedianJulian Clary , also a British institution , will star as King Julian . The show ’s book is written byEd CurtisandMichael Harrison , who oversees the enterprise as managing director and producer .
If you ’re American , you might determine the whole Panto tradition in the UK dead baffling . They ’re broad and loudly campy comedy stage adaptations of famous queen tales where virile adept often do in drag as the queen . The characters will often say something completely untrue and promote the interview , usually kids , to shout back , " Buckeye State NO , HE HASN’T ! " The adults get together in , too . A good sentence is had by all . Come to think of it , why hasn’tRussell T. DaviesorSteven Moffatwritten an episode ofDoctor Whoinvolving Panto … ?
Tate saw last season ’s pantoRobin Hoodstarring Clary , Jane McDonald(Cruising with Jane McDonald ) and regularsNigel Havers(Chariots of Fire , Empire of the Sun ) , ventriloquistPaul Zerdin , musical house starCharlie Stemp(Mary Poppins , Half a Sixpence , Broadway’sHello , Dolly ! ) and laughable performerRob Madge(Last Flight of the Cosmonaut ) , and soon signed on for this year ’s comical shenanigans . If you ’re a Brit , most of these names intend something to you as much asDoctor Whodoes .
" Catherine met with Julian , and she touch with me , and we ’re all very excited about her unite the cast , " enunciate Harrison . John Orley Allen Tate toldDeadline , " I ’m thrilled to be joining the cast for this year ’s Palladium panto and very much Leslie Townes Hope to one day rival Nigel Havers ' criminal record ! " Harrison added , " I think the audiences might be very , very pleased by what they see . "
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