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Reading's panto star Mr Tumble announces Christmas album before taking the stage at The Hexagon

Star of CBeebies’s Something Special, Mr. Tumble, will be brightening up the festive season and making Christmas celebrations even more magical, for children and parents alike, with the release of his first ever album, Mr. Tumble’s Christmas Party, out on 4 November. 

The album contains brand new studio recordings of 20 much-loved classic Christmas songs, with a Mr. Tumble twist. Tracks include Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree, Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and many more, including Do You Want to Build A Snowman from the kid’s favourite blockbuster hit film, Frozen. 

CBeebies’ Mr. Tumble (played by Justin Fletcher) regularly plays to live audiences across the country and is one of the biggest and most well-known celebrities for pre-school children - a superstar for tots. How apt then, that he joins his peers with an album of everyone’s favourite Christmas hits. 

No stranger to the charts, Justin Fletcher’s previous album went GOLD in 2012 (110k) but this is the first album release from Mr. Tumble.

Fletcher will perform alongside Paul Morse, winner of the UK Panto Fans Award for best Dame, Karl Loxley, who was a contestant on The Voice in 2015 and Sarah Accomando as Snow White. This will be Karl and Sarah’s second year playing opposite each other in Snow White having both appeared in the panto at the De Montfort Hall in Leicester last year.

After the Magic Mirror declares Snow White to be the fairest in all the land, the Prince requests her hand in marriage. Sent into a jealous rage, the Wicked Queen commissions her henchman to take Snow White into the forest and to ensure she never returns. Will the dastardly deed be carried out? Will the hilarious panto Dame and Justin the Jester uncover the treacherous plot? And what about the seven dwarves living in a cottage in the Enchanted Forest?

With spectacular sets and costumes, fabulous songs and dances and bags of slapstick fun Snow White is a pantomime not to be missed this festive season!

Justin Fletcher will be appearing in Snow White at The Hexagon in Reading from Saturday 10 December. For more information visit: www.readingarts.com/hexagon/whats-on/snow-white