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Behind The Scenes:

'Pixie Dust' was Tobias' answer to The Lord Of The Rings, his fantasy to have a break from sitcom but keep his style - a success to all accounts, albeit minus any awards - but six nominations, the most a Purple Dreams prouduction has received!

Originally, there were meant to be seven characters.The witch originally named Gypsy (to be played by Becky Trotter, from Butterfly Girls), with a female minion partner to Rune named Vixen (initially Claire-Marie Brown). Princess Sapphire was also meant to be an active character to be played by Laura Claxton. However, Claxton pulled out and Tobias decided to drop that character and reform the characters to the story that made it to stage - albeit with a different cast. The original cast was slated as: Nicholls (Phoenix), Mandy (Azul), Brown (Gypsy, now a village girl), Craig Woolsey (Rune) with Trotter as T'Lana the renamed witch and Leigh Woolsey as Eclipse. However, problems arose and both Trotter and Miss Woolsey pulled out, eventually being replaced by Jo Manning and Mel Broughton. Manning originally came on board for T'Lana but moved across to Eclipse with ten days before performance, Broughton joining the cast with just a week to get to grips with the role of wicked witch.