"Sloshing" about...

OK, so despite how it may seem, our slosh scenes are meticulously planned - and today Steve Boden and Neil Bull are working on the scene for Beauty & the Beast at Loughborough Town Hall.

As Loughborough is so well known for it's 'slosh', every year we try to make the scene bigger, messier and funnier than the previous year... and this year is no exception.

We're not going to give any secrets away but here's a photo of them preparing...

Bet you'd hoped it would feature slosh, didn't you? Told you we weren't giving anything away, didn't we? You'll have to see the show to find out the end product! :O)

Beauty's going to be a cracker!

You know it's a good sign when production meetings disolve into fits of hysterical giggles with on going discussions about shaving cream, snow and flying cloaks - and that's just what happened at yesterdays production meeting for Loughborough Town Hall's production of Beauty and the Beast.

With Kevin heading up the Loughborough venue technical team, Neil Bull (director), Katie Gavin (choreographer) and the Imagine team ramping up preparations to full speed ahead, we can see the panto season just around the corner.

It's a good job Louise had been shopping and stocked up on tea bags - I've never seen 8 people get through so many cups of tea and chocolate biscuits in one meeting! But it seemed to get the creative juices flowing, and having seen the plans, if you think Loughborough's panto was good last year, just wait til you see what we have up our sleeves this year! ;O)

Crewe Lyceum Panto launch

Tuesday 9th October saw the team from Imagine and the cast of Sleeping Beauty at the Lyceum Theatre Crewe out and about bright and early as it was panto launch day!

This year we decided to do something a little different and instead of the usual panto launch in September at the venue, we decided to move 'outside' and to stage it a little later - this year moving to the beautiful Crewe Hall hotel - the perfect place for Sleeping Beauty to launch her panto.

Steve, Sarah and Louise from Imagine were delighted to be joined by 7 of the 8 cast (one of which had only been contracted 2 days before due to Mike Royce having to drop out due to family illness), Karen and Dawn from our wardrobe team, Philippa and Paula from the theatre, Helen our photographer and Mark Edwards our Musical director. With Mark was Adele who is playing Sleeping Beauty in our Kilmarnock panto - so we thought it would be fun to get the Kilmarnock Beauty and the Crewe Beauty together!

We had tons of fun getting the photos outside Crewe Hall (dodging the rain showers!)in the Grand Hall, and the Drawing Room. we also cheekily 'borrowed' their grandest bedroom to get photos of the cast on the lovely four poster bed!

Thanks to all involved in the day - we can't wait for the panto now! And a huge thanks to Crewe Hall for letting a team of mad people in fancy dress take over your beautiful hotel for a couple of hours - makes a change from conferences, I guess! ;O)