We were back with our festive fun recently while promoting our upcoming pantomime Cinderella. We spent time at the Horbury Christmas Lights Event speaking to the wonderful people of Horbury about our show. It was great to speak to many people who were also past members of Horbury Pageant Players from across the years. We love to hear stories from time gone by with HPP!

We then attended the Ossett Lights Switch On with our fabulous hoopla stall. It may have been cold but we didn’t let that stop us from having plenty of fun seeing how many of you could hoop it to scoop it. Thank you to everybody who came and supported the stall and contributed to our fundraising effort. We simply couldn’t continue entertaining the local community without your support.

We were honoured to be invited to perform a Halloween Flashmob at Hickory’s Smokehouse Horbury. Our fabulous team surprised the customers during their Sunday afternoon with a ghoulish group performance to Michael Jackson’s Thriller. We had some amazing feedback and it’s safe to say that the customers and staff loved it. A huge thank you to everybody for their support and to Hickory’s for hosting us. Who knows where we might pop up next!!!

We recently had the pleasure of attending Horbury Heritage Day 2023. We were invited to spend the morning sharing our history with the Horbury community. It was fantastic to speak to lots of different people including those who are past members of Horbury Pageant Players or who remembered our shows from the past. We loved sharing our memories and stories with you. A huge thank you to Jo Sykes for putting our wonderful display together showing HPP through the years.

This year we have had the honour of presenting Ken Sugden with his 20 year NODA Long Service Award. Ken has dedicated 20 years of his life to supporting Horbury Pageant Players in various ways. Ken initially came to help but was very quickly roped into performing on stage debuting as the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland. Ken has also spent his fair share of time as many variations of the Dame in our annual pantomimes. Ken remains a hard-working member of the team where he currently designs the backdrops for the shows and works front of house welcoming our many audience members to our performances. We couldn’t be more grateful for Ken’s hard work and dedication to the society. A true HPP Legend!

Horbury Pageant Players recently hosted our first ever Murder Mystery Evening – Who Killed the Mad Scientist? After only 4 weeks of rehearsal the cast took to the stage in front of over 100 people all trying to identify the murderer. Only one team could reign supreme with their investigative skills and identify who killed poor Felix Oppenmeister. Thank you to everybody who came to support the event and took part in the evening. A big shout out to Westgate Common Club for hosting us and allowing us to run our event and The Codfather for supporting us in selling tickets for the event.