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As the star of the show Julian Clary wore what Claire Allfree described in her <i>Daily Telegraph</i> review as: 'a parade of exquisitely outlandish outfits', each based on his role as the Spirit of the Bells but working as gloriously ebullient visual metaphors relating to London, or to the Spirit's exploits in the action. He wore ten amazingly elaborate and intricately constructed costumes in the show, but this design was not used, along with Hugh Durrant's designs for the Spirit of the Bells as a Sweetshop, and as a London A-Z.\r\n\r\n<i>Dick Whittington</i> was a lavishly designed production, the second pantomime mounted in the West End by Qdos after <i>Cinderella</i>, December 2016, which brought pantomime back to the theatre with great success after a gap of thirty years. <i>Dick Whittington</i> was followed in December 2018 by <i>Snow White</i>, each featuring Julian Clary as an outlandish and extravagantly dressed character wearing Hugh Durrant's witty and inventive costumes. In <i>Cinderella</i> he played Dandini, and in <i>Snow White</i>, the Man in the Mirror.\r\n\r\nHugh Durrant is an award-winning London-based theatre designer whose costumes for Julian Clary and Elaine Paige in <i>Dick Whittington</i> were nominated for best costume designs of 2017 in the Olivier Awards, April 2018. All other costumes in the production were designed by Ron Briggs, with sets by Ian Westbrook.\r\n","physicalDescription":"Coloured design showing front view of the costume with a bell-topped hat, 3-bells on a purple ribbon around the neck, a wheel of bells on a rigid support over the tunic, and a staff topped with bells. Numbered '7'. 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