What Does a Panto Company Do Throughout the Year - March

Continuing our blog of what a pantomime company does ‘for the rest of the year’ here is a brief overview of what the Imagine team have been up to during March.

This month has seen Head of Wardrobe Dawn return from maternity leave and so our fabulous wardrobe team are now back to full strength and are busy planning for the season ahead.

Artistic Director Eric and Head of Casting Louise have been getting some of the creative teams and returning cast members in place for this season’s shows. In addition Eric has been liaising with our writing team over the scripts for this year as well as creating first drafts of those he is writing.

The final week of March saw the first photoshoot of the 2023 season and many of the team were working hard in preparation. The wardrobe team carefully selected and prepped the costumes, shoes and wigs and Katie and Emma from the marketing team had a guided tour of the props floor from Ruth and had a lot of fun coming up with new ideas for social media and selecting the props. The wonderful Ruth and Anna also created some very special and glittery additional bits for the shoots this year. The shoot day itself was a lot of fun with some familiar faces joining us for a lot of merriment alongside the hard work of getting all the photo and video content that was needed.

With the financial year end Sarah and the accounts team have been very busy reconciling the accounts from the past financial year, checking and double checking everything has been correctly coded to each show.

Beth in the Child Performance Licensing department has been creating all the info sheets and application forms for the Junior Ensemble auditions. All the dates are now on our website, with the first ones happening in June, so please take a look at our Junior Ensemble page for further information – www.imaginetheatre.co.uk/childrens-auditions. The page has a run down as to how our audition days work and there is also a video and a podcast with further insight into the process.

If you are interested in a further look behind the scenes check out the fortnightly Just Imagine Podcast which as well as interviews with the members of the Imagine HQ team includes guest interviews from the wide range of people we work with each year.