GALLERY: Honeyman’s Sleeping Beauty comes to town
BRAAMFONTEIN – The much anticipated Sleeping Beauty pantomime will see the return of Tobie Cronje to the stage.
The much anticipated family show – Janice Honeyman’s Sleeping Beauty, will soon be on stage at the Joburg Theatre for the first time since 2002.
Producer Bernard Jay announced his 15th collaboration with acclaimed writer and director Honeyman.
Jay said the evergreen tale of the beautiful princess who is cursed at her christening by the wicked fairy in Honeyman’s Sleeping Beauty will be on stage from 7 November to 30 December.
On her 18th birthday, the Princess Aurora-Adora will prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die.
But the Good Fairy Floradora Daisy offers some hope – she changes the spell to ensure that the princess does not die, but falls into an enchanted sleep for one hundred years from which she will only awake if kissed by the one she loves – Prince Harry Hunkador the Handsome.
The director Honeyman promises that the Sleeping Beauty will bring the pure magic of pantomime once again to Joburg, mixed with sheer spectacle, special effects, laughter, outrageous puns, double-entendres and the most popular of contemporary music, mixed together with some classic melodies always associated with this story.
The producer Jay added that, “This has to be the most exciting, certainly most romantic cast we have ever managed to bring together for a Joburg Theatre pantomime.”
He said after two-year absence from the panto-tradition, the most beloved of all South African panto-stars, Tobie Cronje, returns to grace the Joburg stage with his over-the-top portrayal of Dame Nora Nursery.
SA’s newest musical theatre star, Candida Mosoma, returns to Joburg Theatre as the Good Fairy Floradora Daisy directly after her triumphant, show-stopping portrayal of Deloris van Cartier in the smash hit musical Sister Act.
Christopher Jaftha, who was named Sexiest Men in 2010 returns as Prince Harry Hunkador the Handsome and the TV’s new Afrikaans drama actress Nicole Fortuin as Princess Aurora-Adora in Sleeping Beauty.
Timothy Moloi plays character of Sir Poensface Ponce-a-Lot.
Television and theatre star Michelle Botha will play the Wicked Fairy Kakkamella Khakibos.
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