Stage Acting Career
Following her retirement, Widdecombe made her stage debut, on 9 December 2011, at The Orchard Theatre, Dartford in the Christmas pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, alongside Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood. In April 2012, she had a ten minute non-singing cameo part in Gaetano Donizetti's comic opera La Fille Du Regiment, playing Duchesse de Crackentorp. She will reprise her pantomime performance, again with Revel Horwood, at The Swan Theatre, High Wycombe in December 2012.
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