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It\u2019s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and what better way to celebrate than a family trip to see The Snowman. The Herald\/FoucsLife has four tickets to give away to one lucky winner for the performance at 3pm on Sunday, 25 October.<\/p>\n
The Snowman, which premieres on the main stage of The Rep from 20 October to 1 November. It then heads to the Peacock Theatre, Sadler\u2019s Wells\u2019 home in the West End, for winter 2026, running from 21 November to 3 January 2027.<\/p>\n
Illustration by Raymond Briggs \u00a9 Snowman Enterprises Limited 2026.<\/p>\n
The production is based on the much-loved wordless picture book by Raymond Briggs and features Howard Blake\u2019s acclaimed score, including the iconic Walking in the Air.<\/p>\n
Sharing the role of The Boy in this enchanting new production, directed and choreographed by Olivier Award-winner Will Tuckett, are Felix Anderson, Jake Durant, Tristan Marwa and Tate Masuku.<\/p>\n
Tahra Zafar, who has over 30 years of experience of live events in theatre, film and TV will be designing the Snowman costume. Her most recent iconic design is that of Paddington Bear in Paddington The Musical at The Savoy Theatre, for which she won an Olivier Award.<\/p>\n
The original Rep production first opened to Birmingham audiences in 1993 and has charmed audiences young and old for 32 years, becoming The Rep\u2019s longest-running production.<\/p>\n
The Snowman has embarked on UK tours, melting the hearts of families across the country, and broken records as the West End\u2019s longest running festive show, with its 29-year seasonal residency at Sadler\u2019s Wells\u2019 Peacock Theatre.<\/p>\n
Now, more than three decades after its original staging, Briggs\u2019 cherished story returns in a fresh new production that will bring the timeless tale to life once again for new generations.<\/p>\n
Will Tuckett said: \u201cIt is incredibly exciting to be starting work on this re-imagining of Raymond Briggs\u2019 The Snowman with an absolutely first-class cast.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the brilliant Tahra Zafar joining the incredible team of creatives, we have everyone we need to shape this magical world into what will be a truly spectacular new staging.<\/p>\n
\u201cI cannot wait to share this world premiere with audiences of all ages.\u201d<\/p>\n
To be in with a chance of winning, tell us what your family\u2019s favourite winter pastime is?<\/strong><\/p>\n Email your responses to arts@stratford herald.com by end of 12th October.<\/p>\n Tickets are only available for this performance and no monetary alternative is available. In the unlikely event the performance is cancelled The Rep will do its best to find an alternative performance, but will not be liable to any additional costs including, but not exclusive to, transport or accommodation costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PREMIUM It\u2019s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and what better way to celebrate than a family…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1239690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[19639,855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":["post-1239689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117393890135452140","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1239690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}