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Aladdin
cast announced
ALADDIN......Matt Wilson
WISHEE WASHEE......Craig Martin
WIDOW TWANKEY......Phil Bevington
ABANAZAR......Jeremy Holt
PRINCESS BALROUBADOUR......Alice Baxter
SO SHI......Emily Jones
P.C. WU......Simon Grant
P.C. CHEW......Dom Hall
CHIEF OF POLICE......Robert Sansome
SLAVE of the RING......Amy Malone
GENIE of the LAMP......Dan Hope
I PING......Ben Burgess
Pantomime Company
are pleased to announce
Norman Barrett MBE
will be appearing as "THE EMPEROR OF CHINA"
in our 2012 Production
"Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp"
Norman's Father was a farmer who sold the farm and joined a circus! He then ran hos own circus and so Norman was born into show business. Norman's first act when he was 13 was a goat and dogs. When his father passed away, he joined the Robert Bros Circus. He had, by his own admission, been a very bad clown, and before Kitty Roberts said he was a lousy clown, but would make a good ringmaster.
Norman left Roberts to join Bertram Mills Circus as Assistance Ringmaster/Assistant Horse trainer and finished up being Senior Ringmaster, before going to Blackpool Tower Circus for 25 Years. After this Norman did five years with Peter Jay's Circus at the Pleasure Beach. In 1998. he went to the Big Apple Circus in America for two years. During this time he did a gala show for Paul Newman along with Willy Nelson, Robin Williams, Tony Randell and Cy Coleman. In 2001, Norman joined Zippo's Circus and will soon be celebrating his 10th year.
Norman has appeared in over 20 Pantomimes, starring alongside Russell Grant, Frank Bruno, John Inman, Ian Kelsey and Jimmy Cricket. Television credits that many parents remember are the four series Norman did with Charlie Cairoli, "Right Charlie". Parents often remind him that he used to be part of their childhood TV viewing! Other credits include: Blue Peter, The Paul Daniels Show, Paul O'Grady, Alan Titchmarsh, and Seaside Special from the Blackpool Tower for the BBC . For many years he introduced the Circus World Championships for the BBC and ITV. In 1990, Norman found himself the subject of This is Your Life.
Budgies have been a very important part of Norman's life, and have worked with him in variety theatres all over Europe. They are all male budgies, whose ages range from two to nine years. The birds take about six months before they are educated successfully to appear on stage. Norman rehearses every day with the new budgies for 45 minutes. Their names are Freddy, Halfpenny, Harold, Maurice, Peppi, Peter, Engelbert, Winnie, Dick, Jonter, Perri 2, Edward, Ludwig and Frankie.
In 2010, Norman was awarded the MBE by the Queen. |
