The production will run at the venue from the 6th December until the 3rd January.
It has been announced that JW3 will present Dick Whittingberg Gets into a Pickle as its festive production.
Returning for the 4th year, JW3’s latest pantomime follows on from Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Pig (2024 Offie Nominated, Outstanding Performance), Goldie Frocks and the Bear Mitzvah (2025 Offie Nominated, Outstanding Production; Pantomime Award nominated, Best Newcomer) and last year’s Cinderella and the Matzo Ball, Dick Whittingberg.
This year’s pantomime reunites the creative team for the fourth consecutive year including: Writer and Lyricist Nick Cassenbaum (Bubble Schmeisis, Summerhall; Fringe First Winning REVENGE: After the Levoyah, Soho Theatre), Musical Director and lyricist Josh Middleton (Indecent, The Menier Chocolate Factory 2020 -21; Watch on the Rhine, The Donmar Warehouse) alongside acclaimed director Abigail Anderson (The Canterbury Tales, Guildford Shakespeare Company; Harpy, UK Tour) and Choreography by Yael Loewenstein (The Dance of Spring, Victoria & Albert Museum; Cinderella and the Matzo Ball, JW3).
Join Dick and his cat Tevye as they arrive in Victorian London looking for a better life away from the pale settlement, only to find there is a rat who doesn’t want them around, this maybe jarring but with the help of Bow Bells and Sarah Fritz of Hatton Gardens can they defeat the rat and find a home?
With songs, puppetry, dancing a diamond heist. What more do you want? A talking cat? We’ve got that too.
The cast is set to include: life, Aveev Isaacson (NewsRevue, Canal Café Theatre;
Salome, Theatre Royal Haymarket) stars as Dick Whittingberg. Debbie Chazen returns to the
JW3 Panto stage (Murder on the Orient Express, UK Tour; Jews. In Their Own Words, Royal
Court) as Sarah Fritz, while Gaby Coleman (Sin the Musical, The Other Palace; Two Strangers
and a Clipboard, Etcetera Theatre) takes on the role of Bow Bells. Rosie Yadid (Bad Jews, West
End; Mimi, Soho Theatre) returns to JW3 as Nigella Garbage, following her appearance
as Milchig, of the nasty sisters in Cinderella and the Matzo Ball in 2025, alongside John Henry
Falle (Ghosts, BBC; Aladdin, Watford Palace Theatre) as Tevye Tittlebaum. This year’s
understudy and ensemble cast members are Lillith Freeman (Museum of Living History,
Unpuzzled Theatre; Cinderella and the Matzo Ball, JW3) who returns to JW3 again and Ilya
Jackson (Romeo and Juliet, RSC; A View from the Bridge, RCS) who will be playing rat henchmen Schmaltz and Schmutz.
Writer and lyricist Nick Cassenbaum comments, “I am so excited to finally get my hands on Dick Whittington or should I say WHITTINGBERG. This is such an iconic London panto and to be able to give it a Yiddishe twist is a dream come true. Audiences will see Dick arriving in a way that many Jewish (and non-Jewish) families with immigrant history did facing many similar obstacles. BUT this doesn’t mean it’s not going to be a pantomime… it is, and a hilarious one too.”
To book tickets visit: https://www.jw3.org.uk/whats-on/dick-whittingberg-gets-into-a-pickle-rsn7#