I saw my first pantomime there when I was 4 or 5. It was "Babes in the Woods" and I was bowled over by the 2 kids who played the babes, I wanted to be up there doing that. About 20 years later I got my wish, not at the Hippodrome but the Spa Theatre in Whitby and not as a "babe", I was Prince Charming.

So, all that singing, dancing and acting I used to do was all sparked off by Accrington Hippodrome.
