Review: Sleeping Beauty

It has beautiful story book sets, traditional side-splitting humour, a dream team of panto favourites, and more glitz and glamour than ever before. There are no big names in the cast, just a talented team of actor-musicians with an infectious energy that spills over into the audience from the very beginning of the show.

The choice of the vintage upbeat music is excellent with every number fitting into the story and inspiring, even the tiny tots to clap and dance in the aisles. As Dame Taffeta Trott, Justin Brett is a dame of the “old school” and has a wonderful repartee with the audience. Visually appealing and true to the fairytale this is a panto with a genuine feel good factor guaranteed to appeal to patrons from two to ninety too.

City Varieties, Leeds, to January 8.