The Grand Opera House pantomime is staged by Olivier award-winning producer Michael Harrison on behalf of Crossroads Pantomimes, the biggest pantomime producer in the world. It's a good day if I said something funny to someone and made them laugh, but it's an even better day if I've said something nice to them to make them feel good about themselves.” Belfast’s Grand Opera House has announced the cast and creative team for its 2023 pantomime, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which is set to be the biggest show of the festive season, oh yes it is!

And this Christmas Eve he will continue the tradition of delivering his annual Christmas speech: “If it's good enough for her majesty, then it's good enough for me.” I proposed in the usual way - down on one knee, too full to stand up. We got married in Dublin in 1975. My brother Brian suggested it. He said: “you keep getting told off at work for acting a fool. Well, here's a job where they'll pay you to act the fool”. In 1973 the UFF blew up the Hole In the Wall Bar while me and Brenda were there. We were upstairs when the bomb went off. The floor just collapsed. I never lost consciousness - I knew what had happened. I reached for Brenda - I could hear her screaming. I got her up and told her she was all right. I couldn't see a thing. I walked the two of us forward, but of course there was no floor so we fell right through.

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Try to get work every night. Even if you have to work for nothing. That way, you'll be able to polish your gags ... how to deliver them better ... when to put in a word or leave out a word,” Frank advised him. This is my 31st year, taking last year out and the year they bombed it. I do still get as much joy. And I actually still get nervous before every show, because it's always a unique audience - should it be a matinee in the middle of the week, or a Saturday night at Christmas Eve. The butterflies are still there. But I just get out on the stage and start. Once you see the front row laughing, you're flying." John Joseph Linehan, MBE (born 1952, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an Irish entertainer, most known for his drag queen character May McFettridge. Linehan has, in character, been a long-running feature on local radio and television, as well as a regular pantomime dame.

During this golden age for comedy and variety artists, Jimmy had his own series on ITV and was a regular on variety shows.At The MAC is a characteristically deft production from Cahoots NI. It's both new, old and appealing. The psychology is modern in Paul Bosco McEneaney's re-telling and it is refreshing to see two ugly sisters who are physically pretty, but nasty on the inside (Catriona McFeely and Philippa O'Hara). We got to understand the reasons for their meanness. May will, of course, be singing in Beauty and The Beast, which includes both original and familiar songs – like Flash Bang Wallop from the musical Half a Sixpence, which many will know from Tommy Steele's recording. We were really hoping that it'd go ahead this year, and thank God it did. You can see what it means to the kids on their faces. We had 700 kids in today, and the screams off of them - it was unbelievable, nearly deafening. But they're jumping and dancing and howling, just loving it - and I do too." We were told the world was being put on pause for four weeks. And here we are nine months later and I haven't a clue what bubble is what bubble.” I said it basically to hold the audience’s attention, because in a club they are sitting around the table chatting. It worked and they enjoyed it,” he laughs.