Having lost Sally Capp as choreographer, the job goes to three teenagers: Georgina Clayton and Lauren Atkinson, who both joined in 2008, and Emma Colton, who joined in 2001.
Harold Hudson paints the scenery for us: it’s the 9th show he’s done, but it’s to be his last one. Steve Ledwood joins, memorably playing Frankenstein’s monster. A much-tattooed man, he was able to get by without much make-up!
Denis Willis produced again. This one would make his eighth, the last five being in successive years. No-one else had come forward in that time, so Denis had already announced that Goldilocks would be his last (at least for a while) to give time for budding producers to prepare.