“HILARIOUS”
★★★★★
WhatsonStage
65 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth…
30 years ago, a movie about dinosaurs ruled the box office…
This Festive Season, you are invited to HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTTS!
This “funny, head-spinning Jurassic Park parody” (The Times) is a must-see “chaotic masterpiece” (Stage to Page) that has won over London fans and critics alike. HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTTS showcases Foley sound and physical theatre and is “imaginative, slick silliness on an epic scale” (London Theatre 1).
Don’t walk, RUN to get your tickets for “a show that should never go extinct.” (All that Dazzles.)
★★★★
The Times
Find out more: www.holdontoyourbutts.com
Instagram: @holdontoyourbuttsuk
Facebook: @holdontoyourbuttsuk
TikTok: @holdontoyourbuttsuk
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Running time
75 minutes -
Age guidance
8+
- Theatre Weekly
- Binge Fringe Magazine
- Edinburgh Reviews
- One4Review
- Scottish Daily Mail
- A Young(ish) Perspective
- The List
- Bouquets & Brickbats
Production photos
The Company
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Jack Baldwin
Jack Baldwin
Training: LAMDA Theatre includes: The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess); The Comedy About A Bank Robbery (Criterion); Hamlet (Park); Faulty Towers the Dining Experience (London & International Tour); Twelfth Night (Bury St Edmonds); The Exquisite Corpse (Southwark Playhouse); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chelsea); The Sessions (Arena Tour); and Henry V (UK Tour). Television includes: Gandhi Before India; and Secret Invasion. Film includes: The Rochdale Pioneers; Henry IV; and A Political Life. Web includes: Titus Andronicus; Henry VI p2; and Henry IV p1 (all The Show Must Go Online).
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Laurence Pears
Laurence Pears
Training: LAMDA Theatre includes: The Things We Do For Love (Old Laundry, Bowness-on-Windermere); Jam First Theatre’s Cornish, Hellish and Elfish (UK Tour); The Mousetrap (70th Anniversary UK Tour); Magic Goes Wrong (Vaudeville); Dinner Is Coming (The Vaults); Joking Apart, Better Off Dead (also 59E59, New York), Taking Steps, and A Brief History of Women (Stephen Joseph Theatre); The Comedy About A Bank Robbery (Criterion); The Importance of Being Earnest, Wuthering Heights and The Comedy of Errors (Red Rose Chain); Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Apollo and UK Tour); The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess); and Brudermord (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse). Television includes: Days That Shook The World and Wild West. Film includes: Nuremburg and Ladies in Lavender.
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Charlie Ives
Charlie Ives
Foley Artist. Training: Arts Ed Theatre includes: Laughing Boy (Jermyn Street and Theatre Royal Bath); Babies and Bathwater (A Pinch of VAULT, Vaults); A Christmas Carol – A Ghost Story (Nottingham Playhouse and Alexandra Palace); Private Lives (Ambassadors); Miss Popplewell’s Garden (The Rude Mechanicals); Mrs Warren’s Profession (Theatre Royal Bath); The Show Must Go On (Vienna’s English Theatre, Austria); We Never Get Off at Sloane Square (Drayton Arms); Sherlock Holmes: An Online Adventure (Les Enfants Terribles); and Tabby McTat (ABA International Tour). Television includes: The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman.
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Charlie Richards
Swing
Charlie Richards
Swing
Training: East 15 Acting School
Theatre includes: The Unfriend (Playful Productions); The Play That Goes Wrong (Mischief Theatre); Four Score Years and Ten (Theatre Royal Winchester)
Film includes: Say Your Prayers (Ivy Gate Films)
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Recent Cutbacks
Creator
Recent Cutbacks
Creator
Recent Cutbacks is a creative ensemble founded in 2014 by Nick Abeel, Kristin McCarthy Parker and Kyle Schaefer. Their critically acclaimed work sits at the intersection of comedy and theatre. They are best known for live movie parodies that fuse humour, nostalgia, and lo-fi spectacle including Hold On To Your Butts, Fly You Fools, Kevin!!!!!, Next Day Thrones, and There Is No Spoon.
Their projects invite audiences to see the world with a newfound exuberance and remind us why we fell in love with movies, theatre, and storytelling in the first place.
Instagram: @recentcutbacks
TikTok: @recentcutbacks
Youtube: @recentcutbacks6155
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Kristin McCarthy Parker
Director
Kristin McCarthy Parker
Director
Kristin McCarthy Parker is a New York-based director and producer whose work has appeared across the US, UK, and Australia. As Co-Founder of Recent Cutbacks, they directed Fly You Fools, KEVIN!!!!!, Next Day Thrones, There is No Spoon, and Master Lecture Series (Audible Original). Other credits include Puffs (Off-Broadway, Amazon/iTunes), and projects for Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theater, All For One, PEN America’s Prison Writing Program, Ma-Yi, Columbia University, and many others. Kristin is a company member of Broken Box Mime.
@kristinmcparker
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Charlie Richards
Associate Director
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Nick Abeel
Writer
Nick Abeel
Writer
Nick Abeel is a NY-based Dad and artist who performs, writes, directs, edits video, designs sound, and occasionally works as a foley artist. You can hear Nick in the Recent Cutbacks Audible Original: History of the 3rd Robot War, a 6-part parody lecture series he co-wrote and starred in as the T-Rex Professor. Nick is also a veteran company member of Broken Box Mime Theater, collaboratively creating and performing contemporary stories entirely through movement. These two companies form the backbone of Nick’s creative work, but he’s also performed at Caveat, The PIT, UCB, 59E59, the Tank, Dixon Place, the Denver Center and the Kennedy Center. He’s developed new work with All for One, New Dramatists, MTC, NY Stage and Film, Primary Stages, The Lark, and New Georges. Check out Nick’s green-screen work at his website: nickabeel.com
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Kelsey Didion
Acappella Arrangements
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Sally Cade Holmes
Producer
Sally Cade Holmes
Producer
Sally Cade Holmes is a two-time Tony Award-winning producer and thought leader committed to making challenging and innovative entertainment with broad
Appeal. Her Broadway producing credits include Hadestown (Tony Award), The Inheritance (Tony Award / GLAAD Media Award), The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (Tony nomination), Terrence McNally’s Frankie and Johnny in the
Clair de Lune (Tony nomination), and Anastasia. Her Off-Broadway credits include Little Shop of Horrors (Drama Desk, Drama League & Outer Critics Circle Awards), Puffs, and Nubia (featuring the queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race). She has developed work globally with companies such as New York Theatre Workshop, Ars Nova, Under the Radar, and Leeds Conservatoire. Sally Cade holds a Masters Degree in Arts Administration with an advanced certificate in Arts Enterprise from Boston University. She received her BS in Theatre Studies with a minor in Religious Studies from the University of Evansville. She has given keynote addresses at the Southeastern Theatre Conference and South Carolina Theatre Conference. She is a co-leader of the Time Warner Foundation WP Producer’s Lab. She is a proud Young Leader of The Center, New York City’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center.
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Heather Shields
Producer
Heather Shields
Producer
Heather Shields is a Tony-nominated producer and general manager. She received undergraduate degrees at the University of Richmond and later graduated from Columbia University with her Masters in Arts Administration. Her Broadway producing credits include Cabaret with Eddie Redmayne, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (Tony nomination), A Christmas Carol (record breaking 5 out of 5 Tony wins), and Bandstand. Other current projects include the long-running BATSU! in NYC, Chicago, and London following sold-out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2023 and 2024. She is General Manager for the Off-Broadway immersive hit, Dungeons & Dragons The Twenty-Sided Tavern. Heather is a guest lecturer and adjunct professor at several universities around the United States and a co-founder of The Business of Broadway – an education initiative aimed at demystifying commercial theater business models and practices. She was also a co- producer on the Off-Broadway hit Puffs! (Or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic).
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Smart Entertainment
General Management: Peter Huntley, Callum Runciman, Caitlin Eacott
Smart Entertainment
General Management: Peter Huntley, Callum Runciman, Caitlin Eacott
Smart provides world-class general management, executive producing, production accounting, tour booking and consultancy services for theatre and live entertainment. Productions include: The Unseen (Riverside Studios); Feykom Tarab? Sukkar Ziyada (The Arena, Kuwait); Ali Cook: Principles of Deception (Royal & Derngate, Northampton); The Magic Flute (Nevill Holt Festival); The Most Precious of Goods (Marylebone); Rehab the Musical (Neon 194 and Playground); The McOnie Company’s Nutcracker (The Tuff Nut Jazz Club); Feykom Tarab? An Evening with Miami (The Arena, Kuwait and Maraya, Al Ula, Saudi Arabia); Grenfell: System Failure (Playground, Tabernacle and Marylebone); Grenfell: Value Engineering (Tabernacle and Birmingham Rep and televised as Grenfell on Channel 4); Glory Ride (Charing Cross and The Other Palace); At Last, It’s Summer (London Palladium); Cinderella (Oxford Playhouse); Peaky Blinders: The Rise (Vanguard, London); Making a Murderer The Musical (Edinburgh); Mog, Playtime, The Wellspring (also tour), An Improbable Musical, Our Lady of Kibeho (Olivier Award-nominee) and The Selfish Giant (Royal & Derngate, Northampton); Doctor Who: Time Fracture and The Great Gatsby (Immersive | LDN); Amélie (Criterion); A Christmas Carol (Dominion and Lyceum); A Night at the Musicals (Royal & Derngate, Northampton); The Gift and Black Men Walking (UK Tour).
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Ryan Funnell
Production Management
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Christopher Naime
Lighting Design
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PJ McEvoy
Backdrop Design
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Sophie Andrews
Costume Supervisor
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The 5th Wall
Marketing: Charlotte Twining, Avril Stanford
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Joe Allen PR
Press: Jo Allan, Tom Kershaw-Green, Burte Tsogbadrakh
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Paul Jennings
Social media
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Developed with Kyle Schaefer and Blair Busbee
General Management: Peter Huntley, Callum Runciman, Caitlin Eacott
