CHURCH group Love Southend has staged its third annual "panto in a day" at the Plaza Centre.
Two days after Christmas Day at least 25 young people, from various local church and youth groups met at the centre in Southchurch Road.
When the doors opened at 9am all the performers were handed scripts and told to learn their parts immediately.
Organiser Steve Dalley said: "Everybody had a lot of laughs and a lot of fun and when the curtains opened at 8pm more than 200 people paid £3 to watch the show."
To stage the show, Cinderella, the performers needed a "volunteer army" of teenagers to build a set, design props, stitch together costumes and practise extra material for the climax of the show.
There was even a band of musicians who ignored the noise around them and practised some improvised tunes to be included in the drama.
Mr Dalley said all the money raised will fund the work Love Southend Youth does in the borough.
He added: "I particularly want to thank Jill Simmonds, Sharon Melville and Jacki Rossi for all their work on the day."
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