{"id":35174,"date":"2026-09-11T12:11:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T12:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/?p=35174"},"modified":"2026-09-11T12:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T12:13:53","slug":"the-capitol-lifts-the-curtain-on-full-pantomime-casting-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/the-capitol-lifts-the-curtain-on-full-pantomime-casting-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Capitol lifts the curtain on full pantomime casting for Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"35174\" class=\"elementor elementor-35174\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-68c8dec e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"68c8dec\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-242f718 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"242f718\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Preparations are underway for The Capitol\u2019s festive pantomime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecapitolhorsham.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Dick Whittington<\/em><\/a>, which will be the first event to be staged after the Refurb project is complete. <\/strong><\/p><p>The Capitol are delighted to announce that dancer,\u00a0choreographer\u00a0and TV star Louie Spence will appear as Peppe Puss, the Cat! Having played Magical Mr Mistoffelees in the West End production of\u00a0<em>Cats<\/em>, Louie is no stranger to feline fun!\u00a0He will be joined by UK Panto award nominee, Will Jennings, who had audiences rolling in the aisles as Guy of Gisbourne in last year\u2019s <em>Robin Hood<\/em>. This year, Will takes on the villainous role of King Rat, but audiences can still expect to enjoy his popular comedy antics alongside any cunning conniving. Horsham favourites Emma Lindars and James Camp join fellow West End stars Issac Elder, Sam Amestoy and Horsham\u2019s own Lotti Brogan in this sparkling festive production!<\/p><p>Book now to grab the best seats and be part of the grand unveiling of the newly refurbished auditorium! Tickets are selling fast! Head to thecapitolhorsham.com or call the Box Office on 01403 750220 to find out more!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparations are underway for The Capitol\u2019s festive pantomime Dick Whittington, which will be the first event to be staged after the Refurb project is complete. The Capitol are delighted to announce that dancer,\u00a0choreographer\u00a0and TV star Louie Spence will appear as Peppe Puss, the Cat! Having played Magical Mr Mistoffelees in the West End production of\u00a0Cats, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":35175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1169],"tags":[],"directory-category":[],"event_categories":[],"class_list":["post-35174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pantomime"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-24 02:38:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35174"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35179,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35174\/revisions\/35179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35174"},{"taxonomy":"directory-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory-category?post=35174"},{"taxonomy":"event_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_categories?post=35174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}