1 November 2013

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BACK in East Grinstead with a Diploma in Dance and Musical Theatre from Millennium Performing Arts, Skye Tupholme will be spending Christmas at Chequer Mead playing Jill, the leading lady in this year’s panto Jack and the Beanstalk.

Skye, a former pupil at Forest Row’s Cora dance school, has made numerous previous appearances with The Company of Friends. She started as a member of the junior chorus in productions of Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella before graduating to a lead role in The Boyfriend and playing the Artful Dodger in Oliver.

Skye’s professional credits include being part of the opening cast of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Palladium, and while at college she performed in several other London theatres.

But she’s delighted to be back on home ground for the panto, and to be reunited with Dylan Holdsworth as her leading man Jack and Michael Spencer as Dame Trott.

* There will be 16 performances of Jack and the Beanstalk over the Christmas period, but tickets are flying out fast, so book early to avoid disappointment.