Robinson Crusoe and the Caribbean Pirates

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Michael Coveney - 19 December 2012

To say that Brian Conley lights up a stage is an understatement. He mega-watts it, and brings a few candles for good luck on his return to the Hippodrome from an unlucky experience in the jungle as a celebrity wanting to get out of there.

He thinks he's Buttons (this is his sixth Hippo panto), goes to the front of the stage and falls into the orchestra pit, the first of many classic vaudeville routines he completes with the relaxed brilliance of all the big stars; not to mention the gags - "If you cut my head off, I'll never speak to you again."

Michael Harrison's production has pirates at sea, a shipwreck - Robinson is searching for true love (with Kathryn Rooney's petite Polly) as well as the temple of treasure - and this involves some jungle bunny-hopping led by Earl R Perkins as Friday, a gorilla, a Sea Monster and a chorus of Cossacks.

What's great - and so different from Aladdin with Lily Savage at the O2 Centre, for insta...

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Jackie Ballard - 17 January 2013:

Three generation of our family thoroughly enjoyed the whole evening. Would love to go again....

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