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Clockwise from top left: Gemma Bodinetz says goodbye to Liverpool Playhouse; the National's Dick Whittington; Joe Pasquale will appear in Sleeping Beauty in Southampton; panto star Josh Benson; Adam Nichols; Julian Clary returns to the London Palladium; Natalie Grady in Storyhouse's Carol

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