Utterly Brilliant Children's Presenter Timmy Mallet

Announced For Weston Panto

 

PETER PAN

 

Tuesday 16th December 2008 – Sunday 11th January 2009

Tickets: £11-£15.50 (Concessions available on most shows)

 

Pantomime audiences are assured of an 'utterly brilliant' Christmas show at The Playhouse Theatre, Weston-super-Mare this year following the announcement of a top Children's TV presenter in one of the main roles.

 

Colourful Children's Television entertainer Timmy Mallett comes to Weston-super-Mare this Christmas to star in the Playhouse's traditional family pantomime.

 

The talented performer, best known to millions of British TV viewers for his striking visual style, loud shirts, comedy glasses and his giant pink foam mallet, and as a presenter of popular children's shows The Wide Awake Club and Wacaday in the 1980s and 90s, plays the comedy character Smee in the seaside town's professional pantomime, Peter Pan.

 

The zany star is no stranger to pantomime having starred in more than a dozen panto productions including Aladdin, Cinderella, Dick Whittington, Snow White, Jack And The Beanstalk and Sleeping Beauty, but Weston audiences have the chance to see wacky presenter make his debut in the classic JM Barrie story of Peter Pan.

 

General Manager of The Playhouse Peter Undery said: "Timmy Mallett is a lively and energetic performer and an accomplished entertainer. He is very much an entertainer in the Bernie Clifton mould, and he is sure to get audiences joining in at every opportunity.

"Timmy will be supported by an all-star cast which we hope to confirm later in the coming months."

 

Having started life as a DJ on Radio Oxford, Timmy's extensive radio credits include Radio Luxembourg, Leicester Sound, Piccadilly Radio and The Network Chart and his energetic style won him many fans and Sony Awards.

 

He got his big break on breakfast television's TV-AM in 1984. The Saturday morning children's show Wide Awake Club was so successful that Timmy was offered his own solo show in 1985 called Wacaday, which ran until 1992 when TV-AM lost its franchise. Wacaday, the show your telly was made for, saw the wacky presenter bringing forth games such as Mallett's Mallet, a word association game where contestants were hit over the head by his famed pink mallet for getting answers wrong, and Timmy's catchphrases 'utterly brilliant' and 'look at each other and say Bleugh!'. Timmy also introduced other characters including his pet cockatiel Magic, and the talking mini mallet Pinky Punky.

 

Timmy has also enjoyed life as a pop star and having formed the band Bombalurina along with female vocalists/dancers Dawn and Annie Dunkley, released the single Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeney Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. The song, produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber, spent three-weeks as the UK single charts Number One record (it topped the charts in over a dozen countries) and more than one million copies of the single were sold around the world.

 

More recently, he has made a television comeback with the children's show 'Timmy Tower's' and he is the voice of Smelly Beep in the new pre-school sitcom 'The Beeps' on Channel 5.

 

Tickets for Peter Pan, which runs at The Playhouse Theatre, Weston-super-Mare between Tuesday 16th December 2008 until Sunday 11th January 2009, are available from the Box Office on 01934 64 55 44.  

 

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