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Sleeping Beauty (Pantomime)

Sleeping Beauty (Pantomime)

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Sunderland Empire
Fri 12 Dec 2025 - Sun 4 Jan 2026
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Pantomime
This show has an interval
A wonderfully wicked panto comes to Sunderland Empire for Christmas 2025!

Sunderland Empire

Fri 12 Dec 2025 - Sun 4 Jan 2026
High St West, Sunderland, SR1 3EX, UK
This show has an interval
Please check calendar for full performance information.
For group bookings of 10 or more:
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BBC’s Call the Midwife star Laura Main is set to sprinkle some festive magic to this year’s pantomime spectacular, Sleeping Beauty, as the spellbinding Fairy Snowfall. Best known for her long-running role as Shelagh Turner in BBC’s Call the Midwife, Laura has also starred in The Mill, Murder City, Father Brown, as well as performing right here at Sunderland Empire in 2018 as Princess Fiona in Shrek the Musical.

Sleeping Beauty (Pantomime)

Laura will be joined by Channel 5 Milkshake! presenter, David Ribi, who will be the dashing Prince Vincent. David is no stranger to musical theatre either. You may have seen him on stage in the 2016 UK Tour of Mamma Mia as Sky/Ensemble, Brad Majors in The Rocky Horror Show 2014/15 European Tour, or playing Sketch/Link in the Hairspray 2014 UK Tour, with many more stage credits to his name.

Joining them as the delightfully wicked villain, Carabosse, is West End Star Jordan Lee Davies, who is currently touring the UK as Mary Sunshine in Chicago, and has previously starred in The Book of Mormon, Bat Out Of Hell, and more!

Musical theatre star Evelyn Hoskin is the beautiful and cursed Princess Rose. Evelyn has previously visited Sunderland Empire in the role of Dawn in the UK Tour of Waitress. She is also no stranger to pantomime, with lead roles including Wendy in Peter Pan (Milton Keynes), Cinderella in Cinderella (Sheffield Lyceum) and Jill in Jack & the Beanstalk (Catford Broadway).

Local star Peter Peverley will star as the King. Peter is no stranger to pantomimes, having starred in Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Peter Pan and more! This year, Peter played Henry Millar in the musical Calamity Jane and has previously been to Sunderland Empire as Charlie Thompson in The Sunderland Story!

Laura, David, Jordan, Evelyn and Peter join Wearside panto favourites, the fabulous Miss Rory (Boulevard) as Rorina the Cleaner and hilarious funny man Tom Whalley as the side-splitting Vesta the Jester in the North East’s canniest panto!

A beautiful Princess is cursed by the evil Carabosse on the eve of her 18th birthday party and can only be awoken by true love's kiss. Can the Good Fairy’s magical spell break the curse? Will she find her true love and live happily ever after?

Don’t get caught napping – book now and join us for another enchanting adventure for all the family.

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Cast and Creatives

Miss Rory
Rorina the Cleaner
Miss Rory
Tom Whalley
Vesta the Jester
Tom Whalley
Laura Main
Fairy Snowfall
Laura Main
David Rabi
Prince Vincent
David Rabi
Jordan Lee Davies
Carabosse
Jordan Lee Davies
Evelyn Hoskin
Princess Rose
Evelyn Hoskin
Peter Peverley
King
Peter Peverley

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Sunderland Empire

High St West, Sunderland, SR1 3EX, UK
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The Box Office is open for 90 minutes prior to the performance commencing. See 'What's On' section for performance times
Bar - Pre-show & interval drinks and snacks
Private Hospitality - Spaces available to hire
Membership Benefits - 25% off pre-show drinks (30mins prior)

Vesta Tilley laid the foundation stone of what is now the Sunderland Empire on 29 September 1906 and took to the stage on 1 July 1907 to officially declare the theatre open. Masterminded by two of the contemporary heads of British theatre, Edward Moss and Oswald Stoll, the Sunderland Empire Theatre has undergone many changes since it opened but remains the North East’s premier entertainment venue.

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Sunderland Empire

Fri 12 Dec 2025 - Sun 4 Jan 2026
High St West, Sunderland, SR1 3EX, UK
This show has an interval
Please check calendar for full performance information.
For group bookings of 10 or more:
Read more about our resale options
Join ATG+, the UK's best live entertainment membership to enjoy these benefits and much more across 35+ venues:
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