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Pantomime - "It's Behind You!" "Oh No It Isn't!"

Not sure what I was thinking when I started this. It's all gone a bit bonkers - trying too hard to make things fit! Far too big for the scanner too so had to take dodgy photo. Ho Hum!

PANTOMIME: Giants of the New York Vaudeville Stage

 L to R: Ray Bolger, Ray Dooley, W.C. Fields, Frannie Brice, Ed Wynn

pantomime: Hiss the Villian ATC

Pantomime - Robot In The Woods

Review by famous theatre critic Algenon Cupcake - "This year's panto based on "Babes In The Wood" was a tedious affair with the lead role of Widow Twonky being played by a mechanical elephant. Even more surprising was the villian Montegue played by an actual robot that completely ruined the second act by leaking oil all over the first two rows of the stalls. No wonder half the audience left in the interval. This farcical production was devoid of comedy, pathos and any form of intelligetnt script. I suggest it had been written by a four year old with blunt crayon! This production plumbs new depths of banality and I demand my money back!"

The Pantomime always needs some Fairy Lights

 It was at the Savoy Theatre in London that the term “fairy lights” was first coined.

Opened in 1881, the Savoy was the first public building in the world to be lit entirely by electricity, fitted out with 1,200 incandescent light bulbs created by Swan.

A year later, Swan was commissioned by the theatre’s owner Richard D’Oyly Carte to create miniature lights for the dresses of the lead fairies on the opening night of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe.

The dresses were adorned with lights powered by small battery packs hidden beneath the folds of the cloth.

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