Cinderella: Buttons Undone! Tickets at the Charing Cross Theatre

What Tickets Cost

Tickets start from around £30 and go up to around £90 for the best seats. Prices vary by date, and late November is cheapest at the top end. All-in pricing, the price you see is what you pay.

December Friday and Saturday evenings are selling fastest. The Christmas week and January dates have the most seats left. Booking for a group or a work night out? Call us on 020 7193 9050.

Performance Schedule

There's no Monday performance, apart from an extra show at 7:30pm on Monday 28 December. Over Christmas there are extra 2:30pm matinees on 22, 23, 29 and 30 December, and on Christmas Eve the shows are at 1pm and 5pm. There's no show on Christmas Day, Boxing Day or New Year's Eve.

The first night, Saturday 21 November, has an evening show only, and the final day, Saturday 9 January, has both a matinee and an evening show.

Book your date

Book Cinderella: Buttons Undone! Tickets

The adult panto runs at the Charing Cross Theatre from 21 November to 9 January, with tickets from around £30. All-in pricing, the price you see is what you pay.

Book tickets • Call us on 020 7193 9050

Best Seats for Cinderella: Buttons Undone!

It's a small theatre, so every seat is close to the action. For the best view, go for the centre Stalls a few rows back: rows A and B are flat, and from row C back each row sits a little higher than the one in front. For extra legroom, ask for row K on the centre aisle. Sit at the very front and expect the cast to pick on you.

There's no lift, and you reach the Stalls by going down stairs from the foyer. Balcony One needs no steps at all.

Where to Sit

The middle of the Stalls, a few rows back from the front, is the best all-round view. If you'd rather not be part of the show, avoid the front row and the aisle seats. For the captioned performance on 9 December, sit in row D or further back. More in our Charing Cross Theatre guide.

What Is Cinderella: Buttons Undone!?

It's a pantomime for grown-ups. You get everything you'd expect from a Christmas panto, the dame, the baddies, the songs and the shouting back, but the jokes are filthy from start to finish, and most of them are gay jokes. Nobody under 18 is allowed in.

It's made by He's Behind You!, the company behind the adult pantos at this theatre since 2023: Sleeping Beauty Takes a Prick!, Jack and the Beanstalk: What a Whopper! and, last Christmas, Beauty and the Beast: A Horny Love Story. Writers Jon Bradfield and Martin Hooper wrote the pantos at Above The Stag, the LGBTQ+ theatre, for years before that.

What's It About?

Cindy works as a maid in a seaside hotel in Lob-on-Sea, and her boss is her stepsister, Mercedes. When the tennis champion Ivan Yassandvich comes to town to hold a ball and choose a bride, both of them fancy their chances.

Cindy's best friend Buttons is gay, has sworn off straight men, and is determined not to get in the way of her romance. This being panto, it doesn't go to plan.

Who's It For?

Anyone over 18 who loved panto as a child and fancies one with the gloves off: groups of friends, Christmas parties, and anyone who has sat through a family panto wishing the jokes went further. It's a gay panto at heart, made by a queer company, and everyone is welcome.

If you're bringing children, this isn't the one. Potted Panto is a short West End panto for ages 6 and up, and Cinderella at the London Palladium is the big family Cinderella.

Reviews

The critics review Cinderella: Buttons Undone! once it opens. Of the company's first panto here in 2023, Time Out said "London's numero uno adult panto is back, and it's strangely comforting", and reviewing last year's Beauty and the Beast, BroadwayWorld said "the company nails the deceptively difficult trick of knowing how much is enough time to spend on a joke."

News

Cinderella: Buttons Undone! is He's Behind You!'s fourth Christmas at the Charing Cross Theatre. It plays from Saturday 21 November 2026 to Saturday 9 January 2027.

Cast

Matthew Baldwin and Chris Lane play the siblings from hell. Baldwin has been the company's dame since the Above The Stag years, and Lane has played the villain in their earlier pantos here, including the scheming Prince Camembert in Sleeping Beauty Takes a Prick! The rest of the cast is still to be announced.

Creative Team

Written by Jon Bradfield and Martin Hooper, with songs by Jon Bradfield, and directed by Andrew Beckett. Design is by David Shields, costumes by Robert Draper, lighting by Matt Hockley and sound by Andrew Johnson. Carole Todd choreographs and Aaron Clingham is the musical director and orchestrator. The producer is Oli Sones.

Getting to the Charing Cross Theatre

The theatre is in The Arches, Villiers Street, WC2N 6NL, built into the railway arches under Charing Cross station. Look for the large brown double doors opposite Heaven nightclub.

Embankment station (Northern, Bakerloo, Circle and District lines) is at the bottom of Villiers Street and Charing Cross (Northern and Bakerloo lines, plus mainline trains) is at the top, both about five minutes' walk. Buses 9, 15, 23, 26, 87, 91, 139 and 176 stop on the Strand outside Charing Cross station, and the 12, 24, 29, 88, 159 and 453 stop at Trafalgar Square.

The bar opens two hours before the show and the auditorium about 20 minutes before. Only drinks bought at the bar can go in with you.

Accessible Performances

There's a captioned performance on Wednesday 9 December at 7:30pm. There are no BSL, audio-described or relaxed performances in this run. Access seats are booked through the theatre's own Box Office rather than through us. More in our Charing Cross Theatre guide.

Accessible performances

• Captioned performances: Wed 9 Dec 2026, 7:30pm

Access bookings are handled by the venue's own access team, not by us.

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