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Bournemouth
That'll Be The Day: So This is Christmas
About: Enjoy an unforgettable evening of music and laughter where hilarious comedy sketches blend with heart-warming renditions of all your favourite Christmas songs. Those well-known festive classics combine with the hits of Christmas past and present to whisk you away on a musical journey like no other. This delightful mix of music performed by a hugely talented cast, will leave you singing, dancing, and laughing; it's the perfect way to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year.
Website: https://www.bic.co.uk/events/tbtd-christmas-2024
Dates: 22nd December 2024
Tickets: From £34.50 per person, 12+
Jack and the Beanstalk Pantomime
About: Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum, Bournemouth’s NO.1 GIANT Panto is full of festive fun! When a heinous henchman kidnaps a cow and a princess from the downtrodden town of Boggy Bottom, young Jack finds himself on an adventure he thought only existed in story books!
Website: https://www.bournemouthpavilion.co.uk/events/jack-the-beanstalk-2024
Dates: 7th December 2024 - 5th January 2025
Tickets: From £17 per person
Wimborne
Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs
About: Made To Measure Productions present their 2024 Pantomime: SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS. Also, enjoy a couple 16+ showings - it will feature strong language and adult-orientated comedy.
Website: https://www.tivoliwimborne.co.uk/events/snow-white-the-seven-dwarfs/
Dates: 17th December 2024 until 5th January 2025 (Adult only performances on 3rd & 4th January)
Tickets: From £15.50 per person
BEST CHRISTMAS SHOW EVER, THE MINSTER THEATRE, THE ALLENDALE CENTRE, WIMBORNE
About: A returning favourite Christmas adventure for 2024. Wimborne’s ever-popular Best Christmas Show Ever returns for more festive frolics.
Website: https://www.theallendale.org/what-s-on
Dates: 13th December until 24th December 2024
Tickets: From £12.50 per person
Christchurch
CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR 2024
About: Returning for the 13th year, The Glad Rag Production Company are delighted to bring the Christmas Spectacular back to the Regent, Christchurch.
This year, the story follows Santa and his elves busily preparing for Christmas when an unexpected visitor arrives in Christmas town and things start to turn spooky. Full of Christmas family favourites, show-stopping musical numbers and dazzling costumes, the Christmas Spectacular never fails to deliver festive fun for the entire family.
Website: https://www.theregent.co.uk/event/84462
Dates: 14th December until 24th December 2024
Tickets: From £20 per person
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Swanage
Jack and The Beanstalk at The Mowlem
About: The NODA nominated Swanage Drama Company are back with their annual family pantomime, packed full of fun and laughter. Dame Trott and her sons are poor and matters aren't helped when Jack meets Fairy Lights and exchanges the family cow for some magic beans. Overnight, a beanstalk appears - but will it change the family's fortunes? Will Jack get to marry Jill? Will the Squire get all he's owed? Or will the Giant and Mrs Blunderdore foil everything? Come along and find out all the answers.
Website: https://themowlem.com/whats-on-2-0-draft/
Dates: 10th - 18th January 2025
Tickets: From £9 per person
Dorchester
The Santa Show 2024: Santa's Christmas Cracker
About: Join a fun, festive musical adventure and help Dasher, PomPom, Dotty and Snowy give Santa the best Christmas ever before meeting the man himself at his home in the North Pole. Every child in the audience will receive a special gift from Santa in the popular meet & greet session following the show. With songs including festive favourites Jingle Bells and When Santa Got Stuck up the Chimney, this is guaranteed to get you feeling jolly!
Website: https://shaftesburyartscentre.org.uk/events/the-santa-show-2024-santas-christmas-cracker/
Dates: 8th December 2024
Tickets: From £11.50 per person.
A Christmas Carol – Forest Forge
About: The Travelling Players return with their suitcases bursting with merriment, mayhem and humbug! They tell the haunting tale of a mean and miserly old man; the tight-fisted curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge! Between dusk and dawn Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future! Will he mend his ways? Will he become a new man? Will he greet themorning with a … Merry Christmas Everyone?
Website: www.dorchesterarts.org.uk/2024/07/04/sun-8-december-a-christmas-carol-forest-forge/
Dates: 8th December 2024
Tickets: From £10 per person
Weymouth
Christmas Pantomime Peter Pan
About: Join the boy who never grows up… Peter Pan and take part in his adventures with Wendy as they fly off to Neverland and meet some fantastical characters along the way; Tinker Bell, the Lost Children, Tiger Lily, Nana the dog, Pirates, Mr Smee and the wicked Captain Hook.
Website: https://weymouthpavilion.com/shows/christmas-pantomime-peter-pan/
Dates: 20th December until 5th January 2025
Tickets: From £19.50 per person