The world-famous Tiller Girls are the latest addition to the star-studded line-up for the return of Pantoland at The Palladium this Christmas.
Known to home audiences for their regular appearances on the iconic show Sunday Night At The London Palladium in the 1960s and 1970s, the Tiller Girls were the brainchild of musical theatre director John Tiller in 1890. Today’s incarnation of the precision dance troupe is made up of some of the most highly trained dancers in the country with a repertoire that ranges from the traditional high kicks to jazz, tap and ballet
The Tiller Girls will join the previously announced Donny Osmond, Julian Clary, Nigel Havers, Gary Wilmot, Paul Zerdin, Jac Yarrow, Sophie Isaacs and Australian speciality act Flame Oz, for the extra-special celebration of all-things pantomime from 4 December 2021 until 9 January 2022.
Devised by the show’s producer and director Michael Harrison, the feast for panto-starved theatregoers reunites Clary, a Palladium Panto-regular since the genre was re-introduced to the iconic venue in 2016, with regular co-stars Havers, Wilmot and Zerdin along with the 2019’s Palladium Panto debutante Sophie Isaacs (Goldilocks and the Three Bears), and Yarrow who followed up his award-winning debut in the Palladium’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by joining the cast of the first Pantoland at The Palladium last December.
With spectacular special effects from the returning Twins FX, the production reunites the Olivier Award-winning team of director Harrison, choreographer Karen Bruce, set designer Ian Westbrook, costume designer Hugh Durrant, lighting designer Ben Cracknell, sound designer Gareth Owen and composer and orchestrator Gary Hind.
Produced by Michael Harrison for Crossroads Pantomimes, Pantoland at The Palladium is once again delivered in partnership with The National Lottery following on from the 2020 initiative set up to enable thousands of theatregoers to enjoy socially distanced pantomime last Christmas in theatres nationwide.
Aimed at generating vital income for theatres and helping restore jobs, the scheme involved The National Lottery buying seats that remained empty to enable social distancing and the adherence to Government safety guidelines while ensuring it was viable for theatres to open their doors to the public.
Angela Thomas
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