Jack and The Beanstalk National Tour Tickets

Although a good number of the productions of Jack and the Beanstalk are one-off stagings that are put on in regional theatres by local companies, others tour and present their shows at Easter and Christmas time at different places each time. Jack and the Beanstalk National Tour tickets are often in demand, as it is one of the most popular pantomimes that is staged in the country, with several key elements that make the story particularly exciting for children. Based on an old English fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk National Tours extend to every part of the UK and Northern Ireland. In many of the early renditions of the tale, the lead character, a young lad named Jack, is a Cornish boy. Some academics have suggested that the giant-thwarting story dates back into prehistory and could be as much as 5,000 years old.

Jack and the Beanstalk National Tour's history

Despite the 19th-century vogue for so-called harlequinades continuing into the 1850s, the up-and-coming theatrical style of pantomimes was, by that time, taking over. Along with other popular fairy tales, such as Mother Goose and Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk became one of the earliest pantomime stories to be told. By the start of the 20th century, along with Aladdin, which derived from a nursery rhyme, Jack and the Beanstalk had become a staple of the pantomime format. All of the key elements were already incorporated into the tale by this time, including the boyish hero, the widowed mother, the dairy cow and the magic beans.

Jack and the Beanstalk National Tour trivia

Jack and the Beanstalk's most famous line is one that is said by the giant. “Fee! Fie! Foh! Fum! I smell the blood of an Englishman” is the way that it is usually uttered in most touring productions. In fact, this line alludes to Act 3, Scene 4 of Shakespeare's King Lear, when the words “Fie, foh and fum, I smell the blood of a British man” are heard.

The first filmed version of the story was an adaptation made in 1902 by Edwin S Porter; a silent production of the Edison Manufacturing Company in the United States.

The Jim Henson Company, most famous for the Muppets, made a television mini-series adaptation of the Jack and the Beanstalk tale, which took it back to its roots in which Jack is more of a villain than a hero.

Stephen Sondheim incorporated the story into his musical Into the Woods, which delves into many folklore tales and imagines what happens afterwards. It first came to the UK in 1990.

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