Rose, the meddling momager of nightmares has been resurrected for this year’s Royal Exchange Christmas musical. The wannabe star is back...

Audiences can’t walk away from the ballad belting music that surrounds The Bodyguard, holding the 1992 romance thriller as the bestselling movie album of all time. It is the vehicle that catapulted Whitney Houston to screen stardom as the enigmatic Rachel Marron and possesses three Grammy’s including Album of the Year and Record of the Year for I Will Always Love You.

Who’s like Christmas, and at the Lowry theatre their gorgeously unique world has been taken straight out of the 1957 picture book and placed on the stage. Writer Timothy Mason has stretched out Dr. Seuss’s 69 pages and immersed audiences in the reanimated world of Whoville to make How the Grinch Stole Christmas the ultimate musical feast.

Kicking off the Christmas season with a pantomime-esque production, Mischief Theatre’s embellished revival of Peter Pan endures to tell the wondrous Scottish classic. The instantly recognisable tale has been engrained into the audience before its cast even have a chance to step foot on stage.