| City workers bring Sleeping Beauty to life in sell out show |
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| | Two hundred City
employees from
professional services
firm
PricewaterhouseCoopers
hit the West End stage
recently in a sell-out
run for the firm’s 23rd
annual charity panto
performance. This year,
Sleeping Beauty brought
spectacular colour and
fun to wintry London as
PwC employees swapped
suits for costumes in
seven performances.
The panto was staffed
entirely by over 200 PwC
employees who gave over
10,000 hours of their
time over a three month
period to bring the show
to the Peacock Theatre.
Consultants, accountants,
tax advisors and
marketers by day, the
team turned on their
acting, singing, dancing,
music and creative skills
by night to run the show.
In total 7,000 people
saw the seven
performances including
4,700 pupils from London
schools and charities
through a free ticket
scheme funded by the
firm. A signed
performance was provided
for the deaf and hard of
hearing. Visually
impaired children | |
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| | received a described
performance together with
a touch tour of the set
and the chance to meet
the cast and orchestra.
Ian Powell, chairman
and senior partner at
PwC, attended the first
performance and
commented: “It was so
uplifting to see the kids
and our people enjoying
themselves so much at the
performance. The hours of
preparation and sheer
hard work put in by all
of our cast and crew was
immense and the firm is
hugely grateful to them
and proud of their
achievements,
particularly when you
take into account that
this was being done on
top of the ‘day job’.”
The sell-out
performances in the
theatre were joined by a
live satellite link up to
seven children’s
hospitals around the UK
and Ireland. At the
hospitals, PwC staff
joined up with the
children's ward staff
providing panto activity
packs, song sheets and
games. A two-way link up
enabled the hospitals to
be welcomed personally by
business recovery
services partner Gerry | |
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| | Lagerberg and the cheers
of over 900 children in
the theatre.
Senior PwC partners
played their part too
with board partner and
head of advisory Kevin
Ellis, global head of
people and brand Moira
Elms and Lagerberg all
taking up cameo roles.
During the panto build
up in December, 50 people
from the firm worked with
children at local schools
and community groups in
Westminster and Southwark
to create props for the
show, including artwork
and hats for Princess
Aurora’s palace
courtiers.
In early January the
panto toured Glasgow for
three performances,
attended by 2,500 people
from local schools and
PwC partner charities in
the region.
In the photo to the
right: Characters from
the PwC panto performance
of Sleeping Beauty. Left
to right: Nanny Nora -
Brian Henderson; Prince
Michael - Patrick Voss;
Princess Aurora - Helen
Reeve; Barney - Dave
Gironi. | |
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