YOU know a woman is really good-looking when she can rock a gown of puce satin. Emma O’Driscoll delivered her blonde loveliness in such a dress when Limerick Panto Society (LPS) hosted its press launch of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ in Lime Tree Theatre.
This party filled out the room to line the square aisle and mile of the lobby with good spirits. There were chorus girls in plumed feathers, Tim Cusack’s Beast/ Prince to her Princess, and Maria Allen from Limerick School for the Deaf, LPS president Bart Kiely, Mayor Gerry McLoughlin, cathaoirleach on chontae Jerome Scanlan, cllr. Ger Fahy, writer John Finn and family support, director Tony Cusack and Cusacks, John Davitt of sponsor Crescent Shopping Centre, Mike Finnerton and Gill Fenton of MIC, Jean McGlynn, Kate Sheahan of St Gabriel’s Centre and Gordon Kearney, president of Limerick Chamber of Commerce.
Having praised the society’s 28 years of success and its huge troupe of volunteers , Mr Kearney made the point that “It is this Limerick which is on the point of huge change. It is one of the city’s to watch in this country and everyone here is working hard to lobby Limerick back to the success it was. Well done to Limerick Panto Society and well done to Mary Immaculate College”.
Having closed several rousing speeches with Beauty’s presentation of a birthday cake to the Beast (did Tim blush or was it rouge?), “This will be our biggest production yet, taking place here at Lime Tree Theatre,” Tony Cusack promised.
The show will run December 27 to January 5 with matinée and evening shows. More news anon from Limerick Post.
