"The Sleeping Beauty"

As a pre-Christmas attraction, the Unity Theatre will stage their modernised version of the pantomime, "The Sleeping Beauty", at the Opera House for an eight-performance season commencing on December 15th.

Produced by Pat Woodford, the show is colourful and lively, with a competent cast of more than 80, and should prove to he excellent all-round family entertainment.

Featured on our colour cover are the leading players in the show, and on these two pages, members of the cast in scenes taken in the grounds at Ulverstone.

Two comedy characters, Maureen Yates and Charlie Robinson, playing tug-o-war over a spinning wheel with the ballet.

The villain role of "Fairy Nettle" is played by Dolly Harrison, pictured here with her cat, Margaret Whitehead.

The Fairy Queen (Janet Taylor) with her retinue

Will Keaney (the Dame), Val Aston (Lord Chamberlain), and Edna Heighway (Tilly the nurse) in a comical scene

Pip and Pop and Lila and Lolas are Paddy Cattle, Bill Taylor, Sheryl Smith, Colin Wilcox, and Sue White

Margaret Whitehead as one of the King of Slam's beautiful dancing girls

The ladies and gentlemen of the court

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The Gisborne Photo News

No 102 : December 6, 1962

"The Sleeping Beauty"