TICKETS for Berwick Kaler’s 40th anniversary pantomime go on sale tomorrow.

Families and fans of the show will begin queuing at the De Grey Rooms ahead of the box office opening for the Grand Old Dame of York at the Theatre Royal.

Every year diehard fans from near and far begin queueing the day before tickets go on sale to ensure they get their favourite seats.

Some of the York panto family, including Dame Berwick himself and Martin Barrass, are expected to put in an appearance to entertain the queue of loyal panto followers.

Online bookings can be made from 3pm on March 1 and phone sales from 9am on March 2.

The Grand Old Dame of York opens on December 13 and continues through to February 2, 2019 with Kaler as star, writer and co-director plus his panto family joining him again.

Co-director Damian Cruden said: “Dame Kaler assures me it will be a funny, frolicsome jaunt through fairytales of yore. Well, all I can say is I’ve heard it all before. He’ll be up at midnight the day before we open trying to work out what happens after he says that immortal line Me B…s Me B…s.”