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The Wayfarers Pantomime Society welcome you to their website.

Based in Taunton, Somerset, the group has been putting on popular family shows since 1962. Now performing annually at the Brewhouse Theatre in Taunton, the group has grown from strength to strength. In fact in the last couple of years, performing in the Wayfarers has turned into a fun 12 month extravaganza with special appearances at charity events all year round!

Take a browse round this site to get to know the Wayfarers Pantomime Society.

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LIFE'S JUST A PANTOMIME!

At the AGM of the Wayfarers David Andrews, Brian and Frances Buttle and Brian Saunders were awarded Life Memberships for their dedication and hard work for the Society over many years.

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And if you want to start on a lifetime's adventure in Pantomime why not join us....

If you are interested you can contact Geraldene via email HERE
Further information about membership can be found by clicking on the poster above

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CINDERELLA AWARD NEWS!!

On Saturday 16th May, we received 13 nominations for awards which are detailed below. Congratulations to Neil West who won best male singer.

I think that although we didn’t get any of the big ones, you could say that it was a successful evening. The nominations were:

Best Direction – Brian Buttle Best musical production
Best musical director Best principal boy of the year
Best lighting design theatre Best theatre musicians
Best romantic duet of the year Best UV scene of the year – for whale and boat
Best properties of the year Good fairy of the year
Best chorus choreography Choreographer of the year
Best make up  
Stars of the Future:  
Nicholas Brown Abbie Morgan
Georgie Rosser Stepahnie Rosser

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Sorry our 2009 production of
Pinocchio
has now finished BUT....

Our next production will be...

Do look back in September when we will give details of when and where the production will take place and details of how you can book tickets of our popular productions.

 

   

..... you can see pictures from
January 2009's production
here!


Or click on the picture below...
 

   

In the album, click on the any thumbnail picture to see a larger version of the picture via Picasa 3.

Don't forget to click on the slide show link
at the top for easy viewing.

 

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This year's production was produced and directed by Brian Buttle. It's was his twelfth production for the Wayfarers and unfortunately it was his last. His previous production with us was Peter Pan, one of many award winning productions he has produced and directed for us. Included in those twelve shows were 380 songs, 110 dance routines, 210 comedy routines, 15 flying routines, over 650 custard pies and 1000 pages of dialogue.

In this production the part of Pinocchio was taken alternatively by Georgie Rosser and Nicholas Brown and that of Jiminy Cricket by Abbie Morgan and Stephanie Rosser. Their outstanding performances set the scene for the whole production. Pinocchio was brought to life by the good and sparklingly Fairy played by Amber Samuel, she was also the one who using her magical powers to grow Jiminy to a size that could been seen by the audience. Geppetto the toy maker who "fathered" Pinocchio was played by Magnus Stewart. Ray Jarvis was Mama Macaroni who not surprisingly with a name like that ran a pasta and pizza business aided or was it hindered by Lampwick, played by Stuart Lloyd. Stuart was awarded the Mary Stewart Wilson award for his performance. Jo Thorne played Mama Macaroni's son Antonio, who loved and protected Geppetto's daughter Maria played by Catherine Sanders. The bad person in all this was Stromboli, the puppet master, played most nastily by Neil West, who wanted to take all the children back to his "pleasure" island to work in the mine after turning them into donkeys. He was aided by Mini and Maxi Morissini played by Nikki Court and Simon Wilmott respectively. Needless to say it all ended happily ever after. This year, we were very pleased to see that the dancers and company were joined by a group of youngsters from "TWYGs", the junior section of the Wayfarers Pantomime society.

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