ADVERTORIAL: Swash-buckling series of prizes to be won to celebrate the launch of this year’s pantomime at Grimsby Auditorium

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You could be in with the chance to win a swash-buckling prize to celebrate the launch of this year’s panto at Grimsby Auditorium.

As the cast of 2024’s festive pantomime, Dick Whittington Meets The Pirates From The Caribbean, gear up to perform to crowds throughout December, Grimsby Auditorium are giving you the chance to win a fantastic prize.

From Wednesday, September 11, for one week, you can go to the box office at Grimsby Auditorium and be given a “pieces of eight” gold coin with a unique number. If you get the winning number you win –

£500 donated to a charity of your choice
A pirate treasure chest with goodies
A family ticket to see the pantomime – Dick Whittington Meets The Pirates From The Caribbean
A bottle of champagne and drinks for children for the interval
Meet the cast and have photos taken with them after the show

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The winning number will be drawn at 12pm on September 19, and will be announced via Grimsby Auditorium’s social media pages. A poster with the number will also be put up in the box office window and the winner will be contacted directly.

Don’t miss out on your chance to win – get your “pieces of eight” coin from September 11 to September 19.

About the panto

This year promises to be a fun adventure for all ages.

Our hero, Dick Whittington, arrives in London seeking fame and fortune when disaster strikes; the streets aren’t paved with gold! Broke and alone, he teams up with a lost streetwise cat, together they embark on an epic adventure that takes them deep into the smelly sewers of London, a fight with the evil Queen Rat and her Racketeers, and finally a search for gold and glory that ends with plundering pirates and cutlasses clashing as he meets with The Pirates from the Caribbean.

This year’s panto cast

Back by popular demand is Martin Daniels as Idle Jack, Emmerdale and Coronation Street Star Gemma Oaten as Fairy Bow Bells, star of ‘Allo ‘Allo Sue Hodge as Sherrie Trifle the Cook, Rosanne Priest as Queen Rat, Charlotte Maclachlan as Alice, Chris Clarkson as Lady Fitzwarren and Samuel Knight as Dick Whittington.

Grimsby Auditorium invite you to see Dick Whittington, Idle Jack, The Lady Fitzwarren, Queen Rat and ships cook Sherrie-Triffle with a fabulous eighteen strong cast as they all end up on board the Pirate ship ‘Blackbeard’s Buccaneer’.

Performances run from December 7 through to December 29. For further information visit www.grimsbyauditorium.org.uk.

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