Jack and the Beanstalk Familiarisation Pack 2019 Arriving at Harrogate Theatre This is Harrogate Theatre. It is a theatre in the centre of Harrogate, a short walk from the train and bus stations. There is on-street parking on the streets behind the theatre. You will need coins or a contactless card to pay to park here. A stay of three hours costs £4.20. After 6pm it is free to park here. There are three spaces for disabled badge holders on Cheltenham Parade, directly behind the theatre. The nearest car park to Harrogate Theatre is the Jubilee Car Park. It has 16 disabled spaces and 11 parent and child spaces on level three. It costs £4.20 to park here for three hours. You pay when you collect your car. The Jubilee Car Park closes at 11pm weekdays. It is a ten minute level walk to Harrogate Theatre. For more information on this car park please visit www.harrogate.gov.uk . It can be very busy in Harrogate so you need to allow enough time to find a space to park. The main doors to Harrogate Theatre are accessible. Just push the silver button on the wall to open the doors. Once inside, you will find our Box Office on the left-hand side. This is where you can book and collect tickets for the show. Our staff will be happy to help you. There is a small shop on the right-hand side. The shop sells programmes, sweets, crisps and soft drinks. You can take these items into the auditorium. It is best to arrive early for the show to have enough time to collect your tickets, go to the toilet and get settled in your seat before the show starts. Our foyer area gets very busy during show times so you can expect there to be lots of people around. It may be quite noisy. There are Christmas garlands and fairy lights decorating the theatre with a beanstalk wrapping around the tree and hanging from the ceiling on the circle level. Both the Stalls and Circle bars sells hot and cold drinks, alcoholic and soft drinks as well as sweets, ice-creams and crisps. The Stalls bar is the quietest. You will be able to watch the performance on live feeds from each of the bars if you don’t like being in the auditorium. Harrogate Theatre and our facilities The Relaxed Performance of Jack and the Beanstalk will take place in the Main Auditorium. It is a large theatre with 500 seats across three levels; stalls, circle and balcony. For Relaxed Performances we only open the stalls and the circle. We sell around 200 seats. There are two sets of stairs you can use to get to the stalls. One of our ushers will tell you which set of stairs is best to use to get to your seat. There is a disabled toilet on the stalls level. It is an adapted toilet and also has baby change facilities. The Main Auditorium will open 45 minutes before the show is due to start. There may be a queue to get in. On your tickets you will find your row and seat number. Our ushers will help you find your seat. You can find your seat as early as you like. If you prefer to wait until the show is about to start, you can go in within a few minutes of the show starting. There will be regular announcements through our tannoy system to let you know how long you have left to take your seat before the show starts. You can bring cold drinks in plastic cups into the theatre. Hot drinks are not allowed in the auditorium. In the stalls we have booster seats available to give a bit more height on the theatre seats for smaller children. These are found at the back of the auditorium. Stalls Level To reach the stalls level, there is level access via Cheltenham Parade (a two minute walk from the main entrance and is partially sloped) or via two staircases; one has 13 steep steps and the other has 11 steps that have a more gradual decline. If you need to use the level access entrance please tell Box Office you are here first and they will send someone to open the door for you. There are adapted spaces for wheelchairs on this level. They are at the back of the Main Auditorium on a raised flat level platform. We can accommodate four wheelchairs, two on either side of the Sound Desk. One wheelchair can be seated with two carers as we have two moveable theatre chairs. For Relaxed Performances there are plenty of seats kept free, so that if you want to move around, you can. This also means that if you need to leave the theatre at any point you can come back in and sit in a free seat rather than returning to your original seats, if that is easier. There will be two quiet areas if you need some time in a quieter space – one in the Stalls bar and one in the Circle bar (upstairs). There will be a live feed of the show in both bars so you can still see and hear what is going on onstage. Before the show starts, please make sure you have turned off your mobile phone and please don’t take photos or film during the show. The Show The first half of the show lasts for 1 hour 15 minutes. There will be one interval (break) of 20 minutes. The second half of the show lasts for 1 hour. Jack and the Beanstalk is a story you may be familiar. When you come into the auditorium you will see a front cloth with a sign which says Jack and the Beanstalk on it. As the show is about to start you will hear an announcement telling you to turn off your phones. During the show there are lots of opportunities to join in by clapping along to the songs, by shouting out catchphrases or by booing and hissing the evil villain, Fleshcreep. The actors will make it clear when you can do this. During the rest of the show it is best if everyone in the audience stays as quiet as possible, so everyone can hear the actors. Because this is a Relaxed Performance, we won’t mind at all if you make some noise or move around. It’s important that you don’t go onto the stage before, during or after the show. The actors won’t ask you to come on stage. When the show starts the lights will fade and music will start to play. There are lots of songs in Jack and the Beanstalk and sometimes it can be quite loud. If you don’t like loud noises, you could bring ear defenders or ear plugs with you. Characters In our show there are eight actors playing ten roles and four dancers. Dame Tilly Trott Dame Trott is Jack and Simon’s mum. She works in the dairy. The Dame character is a man dressed up as a woman. Simon Simon is Dame Trott’s son and Jack’s brother. He loves sport. King Bumble King Bumble is Jill’s father. He is a keen gardener and is Dame Trott’s landlord. Princess Jill Princess Jill is King Bumble’s daughter. She is Jack’s best friend and she has a crush on Simon. Jack Jack, or Jacqueline to use her full name, is Dame Trott’s daughter and Simon’s sister. She is also Princess Jill’s best friend but King Bumble doesn’t like her. Jack is desperate for an adventure. Fleshcreep Fleshcreep is the villain. He is the King’s evil twin. He has gone to work for Giant Blunderbore who has been banished to the clouds. Buttercup Buttercup is Dame Trott’s cow and works in the dairy. Giant Blunderbore Giant Blunderbore has been banished to the clouds because he ate Morag’s husband, who was an inventor, and stole the golden harp and the magic hen. Morag Morag was married to the inventor of the golden harp and the magic hen. When Giant Blunderbore ate him, he captured Morag, the harp and the hen and kept them in his castle. Fairy of the Forest The Fairy introduces us to the story and uses her magic to help Jack save the day. The next section tells you about what will happen onstage during the show. Act One First, we meet the Fairy of the Forest. She tells us the story of how Giant Blunderbore was banished to the castle in the sky for stealing the golden harp and the magic hen and eating the inventor who had created them. While in the sky he has stolen all the clouds making it very hot on earth. The Fairy tells us that there is someone on earth who will be able to save the day with her help. The scene changes to the hot streets of the village outside Dame Trott’s cottage. They dance to Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves. After the song we meet Fleshcreep for the first time. Fleshcreep tells the Fairy that he now works for Giant Blunderbore and he is going to help him take control of the kingdom and everyone in it. Fairy tells him that she has found a brave woman called Jacqueline, or Jack for short, to defeat him and Giant Blunderbore Here is Simon. Simon loves sport.