Sleeping beauty casts a spell at the Harquail
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The Cayman Drama Society pantomime was scheduled to open last night with 37 children and adults telling an offbeat version of the classic fairy tale through song, dance and bus stop humour (if you don't fancy one joke, that's all right, another will come along in a minute).
Director Colin Wilson has assembled a cast and crew with assorted talents and degrees of experience. Playing the title role is Jennifer Ali Hosein, whose voice was last heard soaring through the demanding role of the Narrator in Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.
Queen Crystal of Fairyland is Gwen Diaz, who made her Cayman debut as Maria in The Sound of Music. Anyone who saw Gordon Neilson and Caroline Beresford-Wylie in 84 Charing Cross Road may be surprised by their respective characterisations of Bimbo the Court Jester and Rose Petal, a lady in waiting.
Other veteran performers include Hilda Bodden, Tony Rowlands and Costas Takkas.
Joining newcomers to the local stage are some lively bugs and rodents, better known as students of the Cayman National Theatre Dance Company: Melanie Smith, Robert Baraud, Andrea Hall, Stephanie Banks, Sherene Hydes, Kara Lezama, Felicia Burton, Danielle and Fleur Coleman, Jill
and Alan Rohleder. Stalwart technicians Peter Phillips and Reg Rees are in charge of the lighting and sound effects. Accompanist Jack Andresen has traded his traditional piano for an electronic keyboard. Tickets for Sleeping Beauty are available at Phillips Electrical on Shedden Road.
Patrons are respectfully advised to park in the lot behind the theatres rather than in the narrow roadway.
