The brilliant and versatile Paul Tate is coming to Runcorn this festive season to star as Tilly Trot in the Brindley Theatre’s fantastic pantomime Jack & the Beanstalk, which runs from Wednesday 7 December and Sunday 8 January.
He has performed in the musicals Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Annie, City of Angels, Bless the Bride, One Touch of Venus, Little Women, Follies, Cavalcade, Lucky Stiff, Nine, Elegies for Angels Punks and Raging Queens, Baby, My Fair Lady, The King and I, Jekyll and Hyde, Love Story, Damn Yankees and The Boyfriend.
Plays have included Twelfth Night, The Father, A Christmas Carol, Pygmalion, An Inspector Calls, The Mousetrap, Witness for the Prosecution, Birds of a Feather and The Wars of the Roses, directed by Sir Trevor Nunn.
As an actor, Paul appeared in the Opera’s Aida (twice) and Tosca at Earls Court Arena, Julietta for English National Opera at The London Coliseum, and La Boheme at The Royal Albert Hall. He was also in The MGM Show at The London Palladium and was one of Britain’s premier dames in The Golden Years of Variety at The Hackney Empire as part of the 2012 Olympic celebrations. Thankfully he didn’t have to pole vault!
Television appearances include Bergerac, The Bill, Home to Roost, Winning Streak, Rag-Dolly Anna, It’s Now or Never, three Bollywood Movies, several commercials and blink and you’ll miss him as a prisoner in the Hollywood Blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy!
Some of you will no doubt have seen Paul as part of Dame Nation in the recent series of Britain’s Got Talent. They successfully reached the semi- finals celebrating panto dames throughout the land.
He is an award-winning pantomime script writer and was nominated for Best Director in the Pantomime Awards a few years ago. His birthday is on New Year’s Eve, so Belgian chocolates, champagne and yellow roses will be gratefully received!
Tickets for Jack & the Beanstalk are available from www.thebrindley.org.uk or contact the box office on 0151 907 8360.