Sandi Toksvig and Ronnie Corbett present a variety show featuring a line-up of stars from the worlds of comedy, music and magic.
Sandi Toksvig’s Christmas Cracker is a music hall-style entertainment show which mixes music, comedy, festive sing-alongs and, in time honoured tradition, a comedic reworking of Charles Dickens’s classic, A Christmas Carol.
Writer and comedian Toksvig is one of the UK’s best loved entertainers, whose work spans live comedy, children’s television, gameshow Call My Bluff, Radio 4’s News Quiz and I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue. She previously displayed her acerbic wit on the London stage in Stephen Fry’s pantomime Cinderella at the Old Vic.
Toksvig is joined by Corbett, one half of the 1980s’s best loved comedy duo, The Two Ronnies. Since then Corbett has remained a recognisable figure on television through appearances on Extras and Little Britain.
The line-up of confirmed guest stars is as follows:
Singers:
15, 16 & 24 Dec – Maria Friedman
17 Dec – Sarah Connolly
18 Dec – Denise Van Outen
19 & 23 Dec – Barb Jungr
20 Dec – Clive Rowe
21 Dec – Sharon D Clarke
22 Dec – Frances Ruffelle
Appearing as Scrooge:
15 Dec – Stephen Mangan
16 Dec – Nicholas Parsons
17 Dec – Fiona Shaw
18 Dec – John Humphrys
20 Dec – Jon Snow
21 Dec – Rob Brydon
23 – Tim Pigott-Smith
24 Dec – Lionel Blair
Appearing as Cratchit:
15, 19, 21 Dec – Sara Kestelman
16 Dec – Sara Cox
17 Dec – Jeremy Hardy
18 Dec – Dick & Dom
20 Dec – June Whitfield
22 & 24 Dec – Sue Perkins
23 Dec – Miriam Margolyes
Other acts:
15, 16, 23, 24 Dec – Voicelab
20, 21, 22 – London Gay Men’s Chorus
17, 18, 19 Dec – Diversity