EXCLUSIVE: British comedy legend Jennifer Saunders (Absolutely Fabulous, French and Saunders) will make her pantomime debut as Captain Hook in Peter Pan this winter holiday season at the world famous London Palladium.
The top-of-the-bill casting coup was the brainchild of Michael Harrison, of Michael Harrison Entertainment and Crossroads Pantomimes.
He’s the UK’s pantomime supremo with 24 panto productions set to open across the country in December. “I thought: ‘Hello! Captain Hook is often played by a man and I thought why not do a gender change?
It’s what pantomime is all about, isn’t it?” Harrison told us. The comic performance artist and writer Rob Madge (My Son’s a Queer, (But what can you do?)) will play Tinker Bell.
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