| 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
received a described | |
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| | 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
Lagerberg and the cheers | |
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| | 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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