Beauty and the Beast: A Horny Love Story

He might be a beast but his castle is to die for!

Upping the festive antics this winter, He’s Behind You! unveils the cast set to bring their ridiculous and exuberantly gay, adults-only fairytale to Charing Cross Theatre. Featuring outrageous humour, naughty original songs and a lot of sexual awakenings, Beauty and the Beast: A Horny Love Story is a queer and irreverent spin on a much-loved classic.

Set in the frostbitten Scottish village of Lickmanochers, this laugh-out-loud twisted romance features Matt Kennedy as the innocent and inexperienced Bertie, whose dreams of a new life away - and hopefully some action - come unstuck when he embarks on a mission to rescue his mammy from a beast-ridden and bizarrely haunted castle.

Kennedy is joined by four popular talents from He’s Behind You!’s hit show Jack and the Beanstalk: What A Whopper. Keanu Adolphus Johnson brings the mysterious, moody and undeniably sexy-in-a-certain-light beast to life whilst Laura Anna-Mead joins as Bertie’s equally frustrated lesbian sister. Dame extraordinaire Matthew Baldwin will play Bertie’s overbearing mother and Chris Lane is set to sprinkle sordidly mischievous evil as villainous Cornelius.

Completing the cast are Dani Mirels as an enchantress who can’t help breaking off her annual leave to usher in some romance; Ben Mabberley Owen Arkrow and recent graduate Olivia-Grace Weaver.

Steaming up the Scottish winter snow, Beauty and the Beast: A Horny Love Story is an epically endearing, smartly stupid and audaciously adult panto romcom. Award-winning panto pioneers, He’s Behind You! (Special Recognition Award, 2025’s UK Pantomime Awards) are renowned for merging pantomime traditions with the sharper edges of adult comedy.

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