There will be two very special people in the audience this year for Jacqueline Hughes, the magical Spirit of the Beans in Jack and the Beanstalk at Southampton’s Mayflower Theatre this Christmas – her children, aged three and six.
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00:00Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Answerer at Sussex Newspapers and I'm really
00:06lovely to speak to Jacqueline Hughes today, heading to Panto at Mayfair, one of the greatest
00:12Panto venues around. And it's going to be so special for you because on at least one
00:16occasion your children will be in the audience watching you and being impressed by you.
00:23Hopefully. Yeah, it's going to be so special to have
00:27them in the audience this year. They're actually coming on Christmas Eve, which is going to
00:32be really special, yes. Will that be off-putting or will you be the
00:36supreme professional and put them from your mind? Or will you keep thinking, that's my
00:39two aren't they? Well, I don't know, I'm always the supreme
00:42professional. Yes, but no, it'll be really special. I think,
00:47you know, with the Christmas magic, the Christmas excitement, the children, all children in
00:51the audience, regardless of them being mine, it's such a special time and the gasps and
00:55the oohs and the aahs and the, oh no, he didn't, all that. It's just, it's so much
00:59fun magic, but to have them in the audience this year will be great.
01:02And it comes full circle, you were brought up on Panto, you did Pantos as a girl, into
01:07two years. Yeah, I think it's, it's a real, it's a real
01:11craft Panto and I think you either love it or you hate it, and I absolutely love it.
01:15It's so much. Why do you love it then? What is it?
01:18I think as, you know, as a performer you're just able to go and be a little bit freer,
01:23you know, have fun and everyone on stage is working their socks off. And it's, it's
01:30magic, it's silly, it's fun, everyone's laughing and joining in. It's a real family, family
01:38evening day out, you know, it's magic. Absolutely, and talking of family, the lovely
01:42thing is this is relatively a home gig for you, isn't it?
01:45Yeah, yeah. Not that far away.
01:47No, which is even better, I know, only an hour or so away, so I can get home, get my
01:52school run first. School run, Panto, feet on the sofa, feet up on the sofa.
01:56You're going to be knackered by Christmas, aren't you?
01:58Yeah, but hey, it's mum life, we're always knackered, what's new?
02:04Fantastic, well have a super Christmas, really looking forward to seeing it because it is
02:08one of the great Panto venues. Yeah, thank you so much.
02:12Thank you so much for your time, great to speak to you.
02:13Thank you, and you, bye. Thank you.