Ice Ice Baby star will play Captain Hook in 'the new hit play Peter Pan' ? although he doesn't seem entirely sure where Chatham is
After decades of rocking the mic like a vandal, Vanilla Ice is hitting the panto. With a new album due soon, the, er, acclaimed rapper has announced that he will star in a Christmas-time pantomime in Kent.
Vanilla Ice is spending a lot of time in the UK, these days ? shopping for a Rolls Royce, performing with Dancing On Ice, taking the train to Slough. But his true anglophile moment will take place in December, when he joins a three-week run at Chatham's Central Theatre. More than 20 years after Vanilla Ice scored an international hit with Ice Ice Baby, the Texas-born rapper will play neither the front half nor the back half of a panto horse ? he is instead donning a prosthesis as Captain Hook in Peter Pan.
"Ice is a huge name who I am sure will be a real draw for parents and children alike," Tony Hill, general manager of the theatre, told BBC News. "[He] has never performed in a pantomime before, but I am sure that he will go down as a hit." Though the rapper confirmed on Twitter that he will appear in Peter Pan, someone ought to remind him about the nature of the show, and of its location. "I will ... star in the new hit play Peter Pan in London," he announced last week. "Hope you all can come to see it."
Vanilla Ice has remained active in the years since Ice Ice Baby, releasing a string of hip-hop and hard rock albums, and spending time in real estate. He also received an unexpected bump last year, in a collaboration with X Factor rejects Jedward.
The 43-year-old's sixth album, described as "hip hop, techno, funk", is due later this year.
Peter Pan runs at the Central Theatre from 9 December 2011 to 2 January 2012.
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