The cast of York Theatre Royal’s ‘Old Mother Goose Panto’ which has helped raise funds for the theatre redevelopment
PANTO audiences have dug deep to boost York Theatre Royal's fundraising drive to help pay for a major redevelopment.
Staff holding buckets for small change have raised more than £15,000 so far since Old Mother Goose opened on December 11.
During the show's famous songsheet moment – in which the audience is split in half and has to compete to sing the loudest – the UK’s longest-running and much-loved Dame, Berwick Kaler, has been taking a moment to ask the audience to help raise the last £500,000 of the £4.1million needed for the imminent revamp.
The audience of Northern Broadsides’ She Stoops to Conquer also raised £4,827 during their week-long production in November.
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