|
The Goose on the loose! |
 |
The Cast in rehearsal |
 |
Director and Assistant Director see the funny side |
 |
Witch Whey and Wizard Wheeze partake of The Prologue |
 |
Jo and Dil begin the Hokey Cokey … |
 |
… and the rest join in |
 |
Widow English to Jill & Simon: "We'll be inconvenienced" |
 |
Squire Maguire: "All I want is my just desserts!" |
 |
Jo the Pieman in too much of a hurry to oblige!! |
 |
The squire to Bean & Dunnit: "Widow English owes me lots of money" |
 |
Jack and Annabelle the cow – "Pennies from Heaven" |
 |
Jack to Witch Whey: "Is this some joke?" |
 |
Jack meets Princess Penelope: "Where are you from, then?" |
 |
Queen Anne to King George & Stammers: "Penny eloped? Oh no!" |
 |
The Chorus in full dance and song outside Widow English's cottage |
 |
Widow English tends her tender flowers … |
 |
… and gets an unwelcome visit from Squire Maguire |
 |
Jack to Widow: "Guess who?" |
 |
Widow to Penelope: "You're from the Palace, are you?" |
 |
Widow: "He means beans!!" |
 |
Hit the road, Jack! |
 |
Wheeze to Whey: "We don't think you're very nice!" |
 |
Beanstalk Elves to Jack & Penelope: "Have you come to lend a hand?" |
 |
Chorus: "In Jim Giant's hideaway" |
 |
The baddies arrive, looking familiar |
 |
Jim Giant and Captain Detergiant discuss the washing |
 |
Harriet the Magic Harp arrives |
 |
The baddies are back! |
 |
Come along miss, quietly now or I'll halve your harmonics! |
 |
Sarah Giant to Jack & Penelope: "So Jim was right, we have got visitors" |
 |
Stammers: "It's a large, large place" |
 |
How did you get through the shark-infested moat and the electric razor-wire? |
 |
"Exit in haste,"' it says in the script |
 |
Jack: "Everybody ready, then follow me!" |
 |
Wheeze: "This interval's gone on too long" |
 |
Chorus: "In the dungeon, the ice-cold dungeon, the Giant sleeps tonight" |
 |
Enter stage left, Gertie the Goose … |
 |
… who seems to have laid a bomb! |
 |
… and also, usefully, some golden eggs! |
 |
The goose gets frisky in the line-up |
 |
Penelope: "I watch a lot of television in the afternoons, there's not much else to do in the Palace" |
 |
What does that goose think it's doing? |
 |
I'll sort it out! |
 |
Widow: "Come on, Stammers, it's a two-person model" |
 |
Our intrepid flyers descend into the auditorium … |
 |
… and the audience 'enjoys' some in-flight entertainment |
 |
Penelope climbs down the beanstalk … |
 |
… closely followed by Jack |
 |
A metal beanstalk? |
 |
Harriet the Harp to the rescue! |
 |
Uh-Huh, the baddies are back … |
 |
… but they get their 'just desserts'! … |
 |
… and a golden egg to keep them quiet |
 |
Stammers: "If I might inter - inter - interject, your Highness" |
 |
Stammers gets more than he bargained for from the Widow offstage!! |
 |
The Queen is not amused at the news of Penelope marrying Jack |
 |
And we end, as ever, with the Community Song! |
 |
The Widow takes a rest between scenes … |
 |
… but comes out good for the camera |
 |
The Flowers line up for their entrance |
 |
And the Beanstalk Elves |
 |
Witch Whey and Wizard Wheeze wait |
 |
Jack in his/her finery for the walk-down (ignore Paul's legs!) |
 |
And there's always an udder side to life! |