Reader Reviews
Cinderella (Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, Outer London)
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 | This pantomime is excellent - very very funny. The two ugly sisters are such a fantastic comedy act. The music and costumes can't be faulted, Mel is wicked in a good way and clearly enjoys the role. The horse and carriage was VERY impressive. Go and see it while you still have the chance.The children loved it and the adults laughed so much, it was delightful and uplifting. - Sue | 01 Jan 13 |
| Just fantastic in every way... Best show my husband and I have seen all year. Kids were totally enthrals and have been talking of nothing else since... Thank you Lyric - Becky | 15 Dec 12 |
| @excelsior - you are judging this years show on a totally different production (last years)? Clever aren't you?! This years instalment is fresh, hilarious and has been dubbed 'the Rols Royce' of London Panto by a well known critic or two. Take your trolling nonsense elsewhere please... Go see this show, we all loved it. - Chris | 12 Dec 12 |
| @excelsior - you are judging this years show on a totally different production (last years)? Clever aren't you?! This years instalment is fresh, hilarious and has been dubbed 'the Rols Royce' of London Panto by a well known critic or two. Take your trolling nonsense elsewhere please... Go see this show, we all loved it. - Chris | 12 Dec 12 |
| Hilarious. I'll be honest, some of the singing wasn't up to scratch at times and sometimes you couldn't hear them, Buttons and Cinderella seemed to have lost their voices at times? Too much rehearsing? Ignoring all that, the comedy, the references to headlines, the double entendres for the adults, the "ad lib" (it happens quite often to make it seem they keep messing up). I would recommend it, having not seen a panto in many years this was a breath of fresh air and not too many "he's behind you" gags. - Dave | 10 Dec 12 |
| Amazing, awesome and wonderful. What a joy to have this panto on our doorstep every year. This year's offer is funny, clever and kept our four children aged 9-1 hooked. And the grown ups loved every minute of it. Ignore the bitter hack critics- this is pure community joy! - Hen | 09 Dec 12 |
| I saw the pantomimes at both the Lyric and the Hackney Empire last year. The Lyric pantomime was painful to see - it played too much to hip-hop with lots of 'Yo's' and other stupid talk. The Hackney has a tradition for pantomime production. The 2011 production was as any that I saw in the 1950s (yes, the 1950s). I was happily surprised at the high standard of the production at the Hackney and bored out of my mind at the painfully amateur one at the Lyric. Pantomime is alive and well at the Hackney Empire and gasping for talent at the Lyric. - execelsior | 05 Dec 12 |
| Only 2 stars as I felt what was on show was rubbish - sort of university drama department effort but, and it's a big but, it does have potential. There was too much of a Andy Nyman's irritating professor Goodman to start with and too few scary bits. However, it did make me think why someone else hasn't tried this idea before, The Woman In Black excepted. With a major rewrite, lots more scary bits, then I would not be surprised if a run in the West End would not be out of the question. Oh, and why the Jewish thing? That should be dropped for starters. But apart from that I wish them all good luck their original piece of theatre. - rds | 08 Apr 10 |
