The cast for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, this year's Lyceum Theatre pantomime, assembled for a photocall in the Botanical Gardens this week, gamely braving the sweltering heat in their elaborate costumes.

Heading the cast is Eighties pop icon turned TV presenter Toyah Wilcox as The Wicked Queen with Damian Williams, last year's Widow Twankey, back by popular demand as the Dame, Nurse Nellie. BBC Radio Sheffield DJ and stand-up comic Toby Foster makes his panto debut as Muddles the Court Jester.

Written and directed by Paul Hendy and produced by the team behind last year's hit Aladdin, it also features Welsh actor-singer Kate Quinell in the title role, Andrew Alexander from musical theatre supergroup Teatro as the Prince, and, of course, seven professional dwarfs.

Regular Bobby Knutt has a part to play too, making a 'virtual' appearance as the Man in the Mirror.

Snow White will run at the Lyceum from Thursday December 10 to Sunday January 10.

All three principals have a busy summer. Toyah is off to Seattle to set up a US tour of her new band The Humans, featuring REM drummer Bill Rieflin and her husband, Robert Fripp, and from September tours the UK as the Devil Queen in Vampires Rock.

Toby Foster will face a new challenge, heading a cast and crew of over 200 people as the Narrator in the English Mystery Plays at Monk Bretton in July. Damian Williams will be on tour in farce Nobody's Perfect, coming to the Pomegranate, Chesterfield, in a couple of weeks. "The usual stuff, banging doors and dropping my trousers," as he puts it.

Meanwhile, Sheffield Theatres, in partnership with Evolution Pantomimes, has now started looking for the Junior Ensemble for the show.

Young people aged eight to 15 years, ideally from the Yorkshire region, will be auditioned on Sunday June 21 with registration on the day at 10.30am.

They need to be no taller than 5ft 4ins and the audition is predominantly for the dancing ensemble, so the children must wear comfortable clothes and soft/dance shoes. Sheffield Theatres requires commitment from the rehearsal period to the full run of performance, November 24 to January 10.

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