NOT the 2026 PANTO
So, here we are going into Winter 2025 with no Pantomime to look forward to and someone says …. “Hey, let’s do a Variety Show to keep us all busy in the New Year”
It will bring together all the people who normally do the Pantomime with Hoghton Pantomime Society and provide a night out for our supporters in the dark nights at the end of January. So the Variety Show, which came to be known as NOT the 2026 PANTO, was born.
Hotpot supper was agreed and Licensed Bar arranged and we thought, ambitiously, that we could sell 2 nights worth of seats.
Thanks to our dedicated support we did just that and a varied and eclectic collection of acts took to the stage providing Songs, Dances , Sketches and general jollity on the 23rd and 24th January 2026.
We do hope that everyone enjoyed themselves, we did.
COMMENTS from Social Media
“What an impressive lineup of acts. Everything was there, from comedy to dance and plenty in between. A superb night”
Cast & Crew
Cast (in no particular order)
Andrew Atkinson, Grace Boyd, Olivia Boyd, Elliott Brindle, Erin Brindle, David Smith, Matt Watson, Holly Watson, Paul Heyworth, Russell Atkinson, Sam Thurston, Paul Berentzen, Rhys Brindle, Rob Clay, Andy Gillett, Sam Killick, James Swallow, Keith Snape, Victoria Swallow and Hoghton in Harmony Choir (accompanied by Eric Millest)
Starlight Kids – Bella Ashcroft, Anna-Sophia Boughey, Matthew Calvert, Lily Barton, Rosie Derbyshire-Makinson, Tilly McMurtrie, Amber Pinner, Lizzie Kirby, Chloe Roberts, Alfie Roberts, Phoebe Watts, Alice Woodruff
Producer – David Smith
Make-up – Carole Brindle
Stage Management – Steve & Fiona Wignall
Sound & Lighting – Andrew Freeman, James Hindle, David Smith
Chaperones – Hannah Boyd, Clare Bolton
