You WILL believe in fairies!
Magic of 500-ticket charities giveaway
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CHARITIES and North-east groups have been given 500 reasons to be cheerful with a panto ticket giveaway.
Aberdeen Performing Arts has given away free tickets to Peter Pan at His Majesty’s Theatre in Aberdeen.
The company, which runs the HMT, has teamed up with Qdos Pantomimes to give 11 local groups 500 tickets to the swashbuckling panto adventure.
The groups to benefit include VSA Young Carers Project, Fostering and Adoption Team, Home-Start Aberdeen, and Station House Media Unit.
Home-Start Aberdeen senior co-ordinator Georgette Cobban said: “Every- body is del-ighted – it’s fantastic. We have already allocated all our tickets and everyone is just over the moon.”
Other groups to get a free panto trip are Friends For Life, C.I.C, The Willow Children’s Home, CLAN House, Barnardo’s Linksfield Unit, Cornerstone and Grampian Society of the Blind Young Person’s Project.
APA chief executive Duncan Hendry said: “We are delighted to be able to offer tickets to these worthy causes.
“We have been very moved by their stories and will be very happy to see their smiling faces when Peter Pan and Captain Hook take to the stage.”
Community groups were invited back in October to apply for the tickets through the APA’s website.
The 11 successful groups have been allocated tickets to different performances throughout the show’s five-week run at HMT.
Neighbours star Alan Fletcher heads the cast of the adventure as the villainous Captain Hook, alongside Scotland’s very own Any Dream Will Do star, Keith Jack, in the title role of Peter Pan.
Aberdeen pantomime favourites Alan McHugh and Jordan Young play the Dame and Smee respectively.
Sponsored by the Evening Express, this year’s panto is being staged by the same team which presented the visually spectacular and record-breaking Aladdin last year.
