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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

CINDERELLA & ROYAL VARIETY

MNet Domestic will screen a special for the whole family with Janice Honeyman's spectacular all-star pantomime, Cinderella, on December 31 at 18h00. The pantomime stars Tobie Cronje and Robert Whitehead as Cinderella's ugly sisters.

Further spectacle will follow as later in the evening MNet Domestic will feature this year’s Royal Variety Performance at 21h45. The show was held at the Lowry’s Lyric Theatre in Salford, Manchester (December 5) in the presence of Queen Elizabeth.

The Royal Variety Performance is presented annually in aid of the Entertainment Artistes' Benevolent Fund (the EABF), now often known as simply the Royal Variety Charity; the first show being staged in 1912 when His Majesty King George V and Her Majesty Queen Mary attended the first 'Royal Performance'