Year after year, Christchurch Music Society prove that traditional, amateur panto has a firm place in the community and if its success depends on the audience's reaction then Cinderella is most certainly a winner.

This production ticks every box, there aregoodies, baddies, men dressed as women, women dressed as men, comedy and acolourful, rousing chorus to boot.

Directed by Jan Parfitt, who this year stepped down from performing, each and every memberput in a one hundred per cent performance.

The comedy came in the form of two hilarious ugly sisters, Whitney, Dave Green and Britney, David Middleton and a hapless pair of detectives, Gawed, Martyn Brown and Bennet, Matthew McCabe.

This foursome lit up the stage, extremely comfortablewith both theirvisual and verbal humour.

Angela Everett played a demure, yet gorgeous Cinderella and Kate Summers as her Prince Charming was confident and note-perfect through sometricky musicalnumbers.

David Williams(Buttons) and Sian Williams (Dandini) put in sterling performances, inter-acting with the audience and keeping the place flowing in two energetic roles and Liz Griffiths playeda delightful Baroness Harduppe with both comedy and confidence.

Special mention must go to an extremely hard-working production team, and in particular Jenni McCabe and Jacqui Green, who again came up trumps with some breathtaking costumes.

This production runs until Saturday.