Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks will make its world première as a stage musical this summer and makes its way to the Palace Theatre, Manchester in October.
Dianne Pilkington will star as Miss Eglantine Price, the mysterious lady with whom the three orphaned Rawlins children, evacuated from wartime London, are to live. Charles Brunton will play Emelius Browne.
The rest of the company includes Mark Anderson, Jessica Aubrey, Georgie Buckland, Kayla Carter, Jonathan Cobb, Jacqui Dubois, Matthew Elliot-Campbell, Sam Lupton, Rob Madge, Vinnie Monachello, Nathaniel Morrison, Conor O’Hara, Sadie-Jean Shirley, Robin Simoes Da Silva, Emma Thornett and Susannah Van Den Berg.
The Rawlins children will be played by Dexter Barry, Izabella Bucknell, Haydn Court, Poppy Houghton, Evie Lightman and Aidan Oti.