So what panto is everyone going to see? Seeing quite a lot of adverts on the tube at the moment for the various different ones...
Cinderella at the Wimbledon could be good with Gareth Gates & Alistair McGowan (and Joanna Page from Fat Pig) - Cinderella is also my favourite panto.
Greenwich is doing Jack in the Beanstalk and someone else is doing a bit of second rate version of Cinderella at the Shaw (??)....
Hackney Empire's is going to be the best though... Bit of a dream for any Musical Theatre fan - you've got Sharon D Clarke, Clive Rowe and Susie McKenna - bloody hell! Hackney's doing Mother Goose which has probably got one of the best panto stories in my opinion...
Whos booked up already and if so what for?
J
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I usually wait until the casts are published and choose which ones to see based on that. I find many pantos rather depressing these days: too often they're just clones, with cookie-cutter scripts and the terribly unconvincing localisations. (Of a stupid person: "Oh, he must be from..." followed by the name of some nearby district the actor has never even heard of.)
And will someone please make it a capital offence to perform the damned bench-and-ghost scene. It's not funny. It has never been funny. It will never be funny. There is nobody in the world who can make it funny. It inspires nothing but dread in the audience as they anticipate its inevitable arrival and despair as they wait for its inevitable conclusion. For the love of all that's holy, just cut it.
And will someone please make it a capital offence to perform the damned bench-and-ghost scene. It's not funny. It has never been funny. It will never be funny. There is nobody in the world who can make it funny. It inspires nothing but dread in the audience as they anticipate its inevitable arrival and despair as they wait for its inevitable conclusion. For the love of all that's holy, just cut it.
Im in windsor panto this year. Peter Pan. Starring Bad girls Meanie Jim Fenner (Jack Ellis) as Hook, Elizabeth Sladen ( Sarah Jane adventures) and Christopher Parket (Spencer Moon eastenders) Rehearsals start tomorro 
I'm (hopefully) seeing Cinderella in Notts with Dean Chisnall and Eaton James.
And also Jack and the Beanstalk in York with Tim Driesen.
And also Jack and the Beanstalk in York with Tim Driesen.
I'm in south london so our nearest is Peter Pan in Croydon. Brian blessed is playing hook! I'm a big black adder fan so I'll definitely be taking the kids! He's awesome!
I'm seeing the liverpool empire production of Cinderella starring Cilla Black as the fairy, Les Dennis as Buttons and Jennifer Elison as Cinders
I am going to Grays, Essex panto...which is Cinderella, and has:
Lynette McMorrough (From Crossroads) as the Fairy Godmother
Paul Morse and Ian Ganderton as the Ugly Stepsisters
Colin Ridgewell (From Gange Hill) as Buttons
Claire-Louise Mealor (Dance X, and Footloose) as Cinders
I am also going to Swindon which is Aladdin
Shaun Williamson,
Adam C. Booth,
Jeffrey Longmore,
Rachel Matthews,
Emma Barr,
Neal Andrews,
Mark Jardine,
3-D Genie
Lynette McMorrough (From Crossroads) as the Fairy Godmother
Paul Morse and Ian Ganderton as the Ugly Stepsisters
Colin Ridgewell (From Gange Hill) as Buttons
Claire-Louise Mealor (Dance X, and Footloose) as Cinders
I am also going to Swindon which is Aladdin
Shaun Williamson,
Adam C. Booth,
Jeffrey Longmore,
Rachel Matthews,
Emma Barr,
Neal Andrews,
Mark Jardine,
3-D Genie
Richmond's Peter Pan with Bonnie Langford. And Amy Lennox from SoM apparently.
QUOTE(Matthew Winn @ Nov 18 2008, 10:45 PM) 
And will someone please make it a capital offence to perform the damned bench-and-ghost scene. It's not funny. It has never been funny. It will never be funny. There is nobody in the world who can make it funny. It inspires nothing but dread in the audience as they anticipate its inevitable arrival and despair as they wait for its inevitable conclusion. For the love of all that's holy, just cut it.
Oh god, please yes. I tend to try and take a nap at that point...
Thankfully not too many pantos this year - Aladdin in Skegness and Cinderella in Chelmsford are the only two, and possibly Peter Pan at Manchester Opera House. Other Christmas shows will be 12 Days of Christmas at Tilbury, Thursford Christmas Spectacular and the Thief of Baghdad (which is the original Aladdin story) at the Royal Opera House.
A better year than 2 years ago when I did 3 Aladdins in 36 hours....!
QUOTE(strallenfan @ Nov 19 2008, 08:39 AM)
And Amy Lennox from SoM apparently.
Incorrect. She's doing Stiles&Drewe's Peter Pan at the WYP.
I'll be going to see Aladdin at the Sunderland Empire with Kavana, Paul Michael Glaser and Sheila Ferguson 
QUOTE(lizziett @ Nov 18 2008, 11:06 PM)
I'm (hopefully) seeing Cinderella in Notts with Dean Chisnall and Eaton James.
And also Jack and the Beanstalk in York with Tim Driesen.
And also Jack and the Beanstalk in York with Tim Driesen.
Do you know which part Tim will be playing in York?
QUOTE(Guest @ Nov 19 2008, 10:04 AM)
Incorrect. She's doing Stiles&Drewe's Peter Pan at the WYP.
That sounds a lot more like Amy. LOL. I'll be down to see her at somepoint.
QUOTE(strallenfan @ Nov 19 2008, 01:13 PM)
That sounds a lot more like Amy. LOL. I'll be down to see her at somepoint.
I will go and see a few
My favourite is generally Cinderella but my all time favourite Ugly Sister is doing Dame this year so will obviously go see the lovely Mr Simon Bashford (www.simonbashford.co.uk) play Dame Dolly Dumpling in Lewisham's Snow White alongside the original Starsky & Hutch Huggy Bear Antonio Fargas and Russ Spencer and Nikki Kelly from Hi De Hi.
Must add also extremely great value for money @ £15 per ticket.
Check out full panto listings at www.its-behind-you.com
I am going to Hackney, Greenwich, Millfield, and the Shaw pantomimes! Roll on Christmas! have fun everyone! 
QUOTE(Matthew Winn @ Nov 18 2008, 10:45 PM)
I usually wait until the casts are published and choose which ones to see based on that. I find many pantos rather depressing these days: too often they're just clones, with cookie-cutter scripts and the terribly unconvincing localisations. (Of a stupid person: "Oh, he must be from..." followed by the name of some nearby district the actor has never even heard of.)
And will someone please make it a capital offence to perform the damned bench-and-ghost scene. It's not funny. It has never been funny. It will never be funny. There is nobody in the world who can make it funny. It inspires nothing but dread in the audience as they anticipate its inevitable arrival and despair as they wait for its inevitable conclusion. For the love of all that's holy, just cut it.
And will someone please make it a capital offence to perform the damned bench-and-ghost scene. It's not funny. It has never been funny. It will never be funny. There is nobody in the world who can make it funny. It inspires nothing but dread in the audience as they anticipate its inevitable arrival and despair as they wait for its inevitable conclusion. For the love of all that's holy, just cut it.
If you take these out then you ruin the art that is Panto. Thses things are expected in panto and should remain. Pantos nowadays are becoming to dependant on the "star" some of whom are not from the UK so really don't understand the art of Panto.
Lets go back to the traditional panto's and keep the "he's behind you" and ghost scene in please
QUOTE(peggy sue @ Nov 19 2008, 11:32 AM)
I'll be going to see Aladdin at the Sunderland Empire with Kavana, Paul Michael Glaser and Sheila Ferguson
My office looks straight into the dressing rooms at the Empire!
I'll be going to see it to.
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