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  • Venue Charing Cross Theatre, London
  • Performance dates Booking to 11 January 2025
  • Running time To be confirmed
  • Age guidelines 18+

Get tickets to Jack and the Beanstalk: What a Whopper!

Adult pantomime returns to Charing Cross Theatre for Christmas 2024 with Jack and the Beanstalk: What a Whopper!.

A profoundly silly and joyously naughty magical adventure, Jack and the Beanstalk: What a Whopper is a dazzling adults-only pantomime from the team behind Sleeping Beauty Takes A Prick! and the legendary Above The Stag Theatre gay pantos.

Dame Dolly Trott was the matriarch of a rural soap opera for 20 years until scandal and swindle finished her career and her fortune, leaving her to eke out a life on her son’s dilapidated dairy farm. Jack Trott is poor, gay and very horny, living 10 miles from the nearest Grindr user in the quaint Yorkshire Village of Upper Bottom. Join him on his hilarious quest to find something truly giant…

This outrageous show is everything a great panto should be – just not for all the family!  

Jack and the Beanstalk: What a Whopper runs from 23 November 2024 to 11 January 2025 at Charing Cross Theatre London.

Jack never wanted to join the circus, but most nights he dreams of a big top! By day he helps his poor mum run their dilapidated dairy farm ten miles from the nearest Grindr user, but hungry for city thrills from drag brunches to darkrooms, he sells their cow for a handful of magic beans. When his mum throws them in the compost, the next morning Jack wakes to the longest, thickest, firmest stalk he’s ever seen. Could it be the answer to their dreams?

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Who is in the cast of Jack and the Beanstalk: What a Whopper!?

The cast features Keanu Adolphus Johnson as poor, gay and very horny Jack Trott, Matthew Baldwin as Dame Dolly Trott, Chris Lane as Dale the friendly fairy, Jordan Stamatiadis as lascivious evil landowner Lady Fleshcreep, Laura Anna-Mead as Simple Simone, Joe Grundy as Reverend Tim. Completing the cast are ensemble members: Laura Buhagiar, Caitlin Swanton and Fin Walton.

Who are the creative team of Jack and the Beanstalk: What a Whopper!?

Written by  Jon Bradfield and Martin Hooper, Songs by Jon Bradfield

Director Andrew Beckett; Set Designer David Shields; Costumes Robert Draper and Sandy Lloyd; Musical Director and Orchestrations Aaron Clingham; Choreographer Carole Todd; Produced by Oli Sones for He’s Behind You Ltd; Executive Producer Investors in Theatre

Venue Information

Charing Cross Theatre , The Arches, Villiers Street, London, WC2N 6NL

Nearest Tube or Train: Charing Cross (Northern line, Bakerloo line)

Nearest Buses: (Strand) 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 23, 87, 91, 139, 176

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Jack and the Beanstalk: What a Whopper! is playing at the Charing Cross Theatre in London
The age recommendations for Jack and the Beanstalk: What a Whopper! are: 18+
Yes, Jack and the Beanstalk: What a Whopper! has matinee performances on the following days: Saturday, Sunday
No, sorry, Jack and the Beanstalk: What a Whopper! has now completed its run and is no longer on sale.

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