The cast of Jack and his Giant Stalk waved a fond farewell on Saturday night to a lively crowd, including Brick Lane Music Hall friends and supporters Jess Conrad, who came with his wife Rennee, and Roy and Debbie Hudd, pictured below with Vincent Hayes.

Led by Vincent Hayes, the cast had as much fun as the audience – pictured below, Vincent (aka Silly Billy) with Andrew Robley, making his first ever appearance as Dame, and Chris Draper, who played Muddles.

Lottie Johnson played a starring role as Jack alongside Lucy Reed, making her Brick Lane Music Hall debut as Jill.

Nigel Ellacott was magnificent as the maleficent Poison Ivy. Pictured below, Nigel with the Evil Demons, Tommy Knapp, Sam Sadler and Catherine Dennison who kept the action going with her upbeat choreography.

Ensuring there would be a happy-ever-after, was Hettie Hobbs, who made a mellifluous Brick Lane Music Hall pantomime debut as Fairy Good.

Adding more musicality was Rusty Goffe who bravely took on the role of our cut-price reduced-sized evil Giant. He managed to give us a tune before being soundly defeated and banished from panto’ land.

Few pantomimes would be complete without a dancing animal or two, and this year Sam Sadler was back by popular demand playing Daisy the cow.

Jack and his Giant Stalk is being packed away to make way for the Irish Music Hall show which opens on Friday! The show will see the return of Brick Lane Music Hall regulars, Paul James, Bill Byrne and Ross Tomlinson. The line-up, led by Vincent Hayes, will also include Andrew Robley, Catherine Dennison, Hettie Hobbs and Lucy Reed, who will be putting on their Irish dancing shoes for one of the liveliest shows of the year with all the wonderful songs and comedy you would expect from that most emerald of isles.

So that’s all from pantoland this year. But you can be sure we’ll be back again next January – booking now for 2017 – when Brick Lane Music Hall presents Schlepping Beauty!