Cinderella Tickets in London at the London Palladium
Cinderella is the London Palladium pantomime this Christmas, from 5 December 2026 to 10 January 2027, with a legendary cast including Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders as the Ugly Sisters and Julian Clary as the Fairy Godfather. Paul Zerdin, Nigel Havers and Rob Madge are back too. For panto, book as close as you can in the Stalls, anywhere from the front row to halfway back.
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Who's Cinderella For?
Families with children from about 5, and it's at its best from 8 to 13. The theatre doesn't let in anyone under 4, and asks parents to use their discretion. It works just as well for adults on their own: a lot of the jokes are aimed at grown-ups, and they're a bit smutty, but they go over children's heads.
If you're after a fairy tale told like it is in the books, this definitely isn't it. A Palladium panto is built around its stars, and the story is there to hang the jokes on.
What Tickets Cost
The link you'll see here will take you directly through to the London Palladium Box Office. Seats left start from around £65 at most performances, and most December seats cost around £85 to £130.
The cheapest dates are Christmas week and New Year, where seats left start from around £65 to £70. Before Christmas, most performances start from around £85, and some December Saturdays have already sold out.
About Cinderella at the London Palladium
Palladium pantos are silly fun, and no panto in the country is bigger. You get a huge budget on stage, outrageous costumes, a lot of innuendo and a cast of big names, all aimed at making you laugh.
Cinderella started the modern Palladium panto back in 2016, and this is the first title to come round a second time.
It's a proper British panto, so expect songs, slapstick and plenty of shouting back at the stage.
The running time hasn't been published yet, and there's one interval. There are pyrotechnics, loud and sudden noises, strobe and flashing lights, fog and haze.
What's Cinderella About?
Cinderella lives with her cruel stepfamily, and the Ugly Sisters make her life a misery. With help from her Fairy Godfather, she gets to the royal ball, where Prince Charming falls for her.
Performance Schedule
Cinderella plays twice a day, at 2:30pm and 7:30pm from Tuesday to Saturday and at 1pm and 5:30pm on Sundays. There's normally no Monday show, but the two Mondays in Christmas week play.
| Day | Matinee | Evening |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 2:30pm on 21 and 28 December | 7:30pm on 21 and 28 December |
| Tuesday | 2:30pm | 7:30pm |
| Wednesday | 2:30pm | 7:30pm |
| Thursday | 2:30pm | 7:30pm |
| Friday | 2:30pm | 7:30pm |
| Saturday | 2:30pm | 7:30pm |
| Sunday | 1pm | 5:30pm |
Over Christmas and New Year the times change:
- Friday 18 December: no performance
- Christmas Eve: 12 noon and 4pm
- Christmas Day: no performance
- Boxing Day: 1pm and 5:30pm
- New Year's Eve: 1pm and 5:30pm
- New Year's Day: no performance
- Tuesday 5 January: 7:30pm only
The last performance is on Sunday 10 January 2027 at 5:30pm.
Best Seats for Cinderella
For a panto we'd always go for the Stalls, from the front to the middle. It's where you're closest to the stage and the most likely to get a bit of interaction. Both circles work well too, if the Stalls are full or over budget.
With very small children, sit a few rows back rather than in rows A to C, because the stage is high and they can miss what happens at the back of it.
Skip the Boxes and the far ends of the rows. A panto uses the whole stage, and from the side you lose the corners.
The levels are covered one by one in the Tickets and Best Seats tab.
Cast and Creative Team
The big news this year is the Ugly Sisters. Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are on stage together for the first time since their farewell tour in 2008 and 2009, and both have done the Palladium panto before, separately, so they know exactly what this stage asks of them. As they put it when the casting was announced: "Watch out. It won't be pretty."
Julian Clary is the Fairy Godfather, with the Palladium regulars back around him: the ventriloquist Paul Zerdin as Zerdini, Nigel Havers as King Charmer and Rob Madge as Sequins. Dex Lee, from Moulin Rouge!, is Prince Charming, and Hope Dawe is Cinderella. Michael Harrison produces and directs, as he has for the Palladium's recent pantos.
There's more on everyone in the company in the Cast and Creatives tab.
Cinderella Tickets at the London Palladium
Cinderella runs at the London Palladium from 5 December 2026 to 10 January 2027, and tickets are sold by the theatre's own Box Office rather than by us.
Call us on 020 7193 9050 and we'll help you find another show for Christmas.
FAQs
From around £65 for the seats still left at most performances, with most December seats around £85 to £130. The lowest prices are over Christmas week and New Year.
Not at the moment. Cinderella is on sale through the London Palladium Box Office. For any other show this Christmas, call us on 020 7193 9050.
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders as the Ugly Sisters, Julian Clary as the Fairy Godfather, Paul Zerdin, Nigel Havers, Rob Madge, Dex Lee as Prince Charming and Hope Dawe as Cinderella.
The running time for Cinderella hasn't been published yet. It has one interval.
We'd say 5 and up, and it's at its best from about 8 to 13, and for adults. Under-4s aren't admitted. Some of the jokes are smutty, but they go over children's heads.
No. Children under 4 aren't let into the London Palladium, even on a lap.
The front to the middle of the Stalls, for being close to the stage. The Royal Circle and Grand Circle work well too. With small children, avoid rows A to C of the Stalls, where the high stage gets in the way.
20 to 25 minutes before the start, no later. There are bag checks, the foyer is small, and every level has its own entrance.
You'll be held until a suitable break in the show, which can be the interval. Check your start time before you set off: Sundays are 1pm and 5:30pm, and Christmas Eve is 12 noon and 4pm.
Yes, apart from Friday 18 December, Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Christmas Eve is 12 noon and 4pm, Boxing Day and New Year's Eve are 1pm and 5:30pm, and both Christmas-week Mondays play.
No. The Palladium's Cinderella is a traditional panto written for this production, rather than Disney's version or the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.
The critics see it at press night, in mid-December. Until then, the News and Reviews tab has what they said about earlier Palladium pantos.
Yes, three. They're booked through the London Palladium's own access team, not through us.
- Thursday 31 December, 1pm: BSL signed
- Thursday 7 January, 7:30pm: audio described
- Friday 8 January, 7:30pm: captioned, through the GalaPro app on your phone
There's no relaxed performance.
Tickets and Best Seats for Cinderella
Whichever level you choose, book early: some December Saturdays are already sold out, and prices are in the Overview.
Stalls
This is the level to book for the panto, from the front to the middle. Rows D to M are the sweet spot, with the whole stage in view from a comfortable distance.
Rows A to C are very close, with less legroom, and the stage is high, so very small children see better a few rows back. From about row R the Royal Circle above starts to cut into the top of the stage, and from row U it's really noticeable.
The Stalls are the only level with step-free access.
Royal Circle
The Royal Circle is fine for the panto too, and rows B to F are the ones to have here. They're high enough to take in the whole stage at once, and the slope is steep enough to see over the row in front.
Row A has a metal safety bar that gets in the view from rows A and B, and the front rows are short on legroom. Booster seats aren't allowed on this level.
Grand Circle
The Grand Circle is the cheapest level and also fine for the panto, especially from the front few rows, where you still feel part of the show. From about row K back it's very high and feels a long way off.
It's a climb. Most seats are 67 or 72 steps up from the street, there's no lift, and booster seats aren't allowed.
Boxes and the ends of the rows
Avoid them for the panto. The Boxes are very side-on, and the far ends of the rows on every level lose the corners of the stage, which a panto uses all of.
The seating plan is set out seat by seat in our London Palladium guide.
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Getting to the London Palladium
The London Palladium is at 8 Argyll Street, London W1F 7TF, just off Oxford Street at Oxford Circus, with Liberty on the corner.
Oxford Circus is 1 to 2 minutes away on the Central, Bakerloo and Victoria lines. Use the Argyll Street exit and you come out about 40 metres from the door. Bond Street is 8 to 10 minutes' walk and Tottenham Court Road 10 to 12, and both are step-free, which Oxford Circus isn't.
The 12, 22, 88, 94, 139 and 159 buses stop at Oxford Circus Station, by the Circus. The 55, 73, 98 and 390 stop on Oxford Street by Great Titchfield Street, and the 88, 94, 159 and 453 on Regent Street by Hamleys. All three are two or three minutes' walk. Oxford Street's bus routes are being changed, so check TfL on the day.
Arrive 20 to 25 minutes before, no later. There are bag checks and a small foyer, and the Stalls, Royal Circle and Grand Circle each have their own entrance, so go to yours first. The Box Office is separate from the foyer, on your left as you go in.
There are four bars, and the one in the Royal Circle is called the Cinderella Bar.
The theatre has 2,292 seats over three levels, the Stalls, the Royal Circle and the Grand Circle, plus the Boxes. Booster seats aren't allowed in the Royal Circle or the Grand Circle. If your child will need one in the Stalls, ask the theatre before you go.
Step-free access, bars and everything else about the building are in our London Palladium guide.
Address
8 Argyll Street, London W1F 7TF
Nearest Tube
Oxford Circus
Cinderella Cast
The cast, in billing order:
- Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders as the Ugly Sisters
- Julian Clary as the Fairy Godfather
- Paul Zerdin as Zerdini
- Nigel Havers as King Charmer
- Rob Madge as Sequins
- Dex Lee as Prince Charming
- Hope Dawe as Cinderella
It's French and Saunders' first stage show together since their farewell tour in 2008 and 2009. Each has done a Palladium panto on her own before: Dawn French in Snow White and Jack and the Beanstalk, and Jennifer Saunders as Captain Hook in Peter Pan. Announcing the casting, the pair said: "Watch out. It won't be pretty."
Julian Clary, Paul Zerdin, Nigel Havers and Rob Madge are Palladium panto regulars. Paul Zerdin is a ventriloquist. Dex Lee has been in Moulin Rouge! and the TV series Doctors, and Hope Dawe was in Burlesque.
Creative team
Produced and directed by Michael Harrison, for Crossroads Pantomimes.
Cinderella Reviews
Press night is in mid-December, when this year's reviews will be rounded up.
What critics said about earlier Palladium pantos
These are reviews of previous years' pantos at the Palladium, not of Cinderella. Michael Harrison produced and directed all of them, and Julian Clary, Nigel Havers and Paul Zerdin were in each one. Whatever the star rating, the critics agree on the spectacle, the smut and how little the plot matters.
Reviewing Jack and the Beanstalk on 15 December 2022, Brian Logan gave it four stars in the Guardian: "light on giant-killing it may be, but this is giant entertainment."
On the same day, Alice Saville gave it three stars in Time Out and called it "a smutty variety show manned by stars of a certain vintage".
For Robin Hood, Tom Millward gave four stars on WhatsOnStage on 13 December 2024: "The London Palladium pantomime has scored another bullseye!"
Cinderella news
The cast was announced in March 2026, and tickets went on general sale on 2 April 2026. This is the Palladium's 11th year of panto since it came back in 2016.
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