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First Family Entertainment was an entertainment group specialising in pantomime and other family theatre entertainment, formed in January 2005 as a joint venture between the producers David Ian for Live Nation and Howard Panter for the Ambassador Theatre Group.
First Family Entertainment was taken over by Qdos Entertainment from the 2017/18 season. [1]
12 Productions are now planned for the 2010/2011 season. [2]
The planned production of Sleeping Beauty at the Sunderland Empire was cancelled. Replaced with the musical 'White Christmas, running from 19 November 2010 until 1 January 2011.
12 Productions were staged for the 2009/2010 season. [2]
12 Productions were produced for the 2008/2009 season with the addition of the Hippodrome, Bristol and the Empire, Liverpool to the list of venues. [2]
10 productions were staged for the 2007/2008 season with the addition of the Sunderland Empire, owned by Live Nation. [2]
9 productions were staged for the 2006/2007 with the addition of the Manchester Opera House as a venue. Pantomimes at the Opera House have previously been produced by Effective Productions and more recently Qdos Entertainment. [2]
Craig Revel Horwood is an Australian-British author, dancer, choreographer, conductor, theatre director, and former drag queen in the United Kingdom. He is also a patron of the Royal Osteoporosis Society.
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Martin Christopher Jarvis is an English actor, presenter and writer who has appeared mainly on children's television for the BBC since 1992, apart from 2000 to 2002 when he was working with ITV and Channel 4. In 2019, he started a radio station for children called Little Radio.
Andrew William Agnew is a Scottish actor, singer and director. He is best known for playing the role of PC Plum in the BAFTA award-winning CBeebies programme Balamory and Walter in Scot Squad.
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