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  Evening Standard

  Emotions run high as Anything Goes beats pingdemic for West End return

  A top theatre director has hailed the return of full audiences to London’s theatres as “emotional” as she told how the pingdemic hit rehearsals. Kathleen Marshall is directing the new production of the Cole Porter musical classic Anything Goes at the Barbican Theatre, starring Robert Lindsay, Felicity Kendall, Gary Wilmot and Broadway award-winner Sutton Foster. It is the biggest new musical to open since the lifting of social distancing curbs on July 19, following the coronavirus-enforced pos

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  Felicity Kendal joins cast of musical Anything Goes

  The production will be staged at London’s Barbican Theatre.

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  The Telegraph

  Goldilocks and the Three Bears, London Palladium, review: a smutfest in need of some discretion

  Since its comeback in 2016 after 30 years, the London Palladium pantomime has acquired a reputation as the most audaciously smutty show on the West End.

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  Evening Standard

  Goldilocks And The Three Bears review: Indecently good fun

  This indecently enjoyable show feels like panto as war. From start to finish the audience is strafed with smut by the big guns of Julian Clary and Paul O’Grady. Pincer movements of charm are mounted by TV sofa jockey Matt Baker, panto dame Gary Wilmot and Nigel Havers in a furry fat suit as Daddy Bear.Variety acts and a division of dancers hurl themselves gleefully over the top. You might as well surrender. I loved it, but I do wonder if they tone down the bondage jokes for family matinees.

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  Evening Standard

  Matt Baker and Paul O'Grady star in London Palladium panto Goldilocks and the Three Bears

  The One Show and Countryfile’s Matt Baker will make his pantomime debut at the London Palladium this festive season. Paul O'Grady will return to the Palladium to star in Goldilocks and the Three Bears, joining regulars Julian Clary, Paul Zerdin, Nigel Havers and Gary Wilmot. O’Grady previously starred as the Wicked Stepmother in Cinderella in 2016, which reintroduced pantomime to the venue after a 29 year absence. The show, running from December 7-January 12, follows Dame Betty Barnum (Wilmot)

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  The Telegraph

  So twee, it's a trial - The Wind in the Willows, London Palladium, review

  So twee, it's a trial - The Wind in the Willows, London Palladium, review

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