A HOST of West End stars have signed up to join the cast for this year's panto at The White Rock Theatre.

Tickets sales for the festive extravaganza are already going twice as well as last year and with more quality performers on board audiences are being encouraged to snap up their tickets as soon as possible.

Star of the show this year is former S-Club 7 singer John Lee who is playing Peter Pan and St Leonards funnyman Steve Furst - fresh from a recent performance on The Bill - is appearing as one of the show's villain, Pirate Smee.

As if that was not enough West End actor Stephen McGlynn - who played Bert in the London production of Mary Poppins - has been added to the pirate crew of the Jolly Roger.

With further casting being announced later this week for the White Rock’s Christmas production of Peter Pan, producers Julian Chenery and Jamie Wilson are delighted that pre-sales are already running at more than twice the level of previous years.

Julian Chenery, who is also the creative force behind the internationally-acclaimed Shakespeare 4 Kidz and as “JC” is one-half of the new production team for this year’s Hastings show said “Tickets are selling at unprecedented levels for a Hastings Christmas show, and we are delighted that the people of East Sussex are getting behind Peter Pan."

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A former pop star has been unveiled as the star of this year's pantomime at the White Rock Theatre.
Jon Lee hit the top of the charts as part of pop sensation S Club 7 - the band formed from the cast of the popular childrens TV show of the same name.

Now the talented actor is set to wow audiences in Hastings after being announced as the lead role in this year's panto - a new production of Peter Pan.