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Do You Hear the People Sing? From Les Miserables. Brilliant for defiance – eg. Robin and the Outlaws against the Sheriff of Nottingham. Every Day I Love You Less and Less by the Kaiser Chiefs. Makes a hilarious duet for a Baddie and the Principal Girl – although the lyrics need a little adjustment! Sweeties: An assortment of chocolate bars and other confectionery are often thrown into the audience from the stage at some point. A well-aimed throw with enough force can easily launch the delicious projectiles across the stands and even up into the upper circle if given enough gusto! Sadly, this tradition is being phased out in many places because of health and safety (to be fair, a fun-sized chocolate bar in the eye can be painful, and theatres would rather not be sued by irate punters). Some shows will have a variation — in Aladdin, the Widow Twankey might throw comically oversized laundry into the audience instead, or in The Little Mermaid, the auditorium might be filled with bubbles.

The Song That Goes like This from Spamalot. Brilliant witty song and great to subvert between a villainous would be lover and and a very unwilling Principal Girl as in my versions of Camelot the Panto and Aladdin. Grimaldi. It was at this point that performances started to be based around European fairy tales and children’s stories, a tradition that remains to this day.

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Venues [ edit ] Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret in a Windsor Castle wartime performance of Aladdin A note about writing for the pantomime dame. Some dames will have particular styles of performance. Some will come with their own material. There’s usually some sort of ‘opening spot’ near the beginning, which might involve a musical number. The main thing to bear in mind is to make sure there’s always comedy around, and the dame should always have a heart. If you have that in mind, you can’t go far wrong. Pantomime Comic Pantomime is performed in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Switzerland, Australasia, Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, Malta and Andorra, among other places. It is performed mostly during the Christmas and New Year season. [57] [58] United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland [ edit ]

It was first produced annually in Andorra by the English-speaking Mums' group, from the British expatriate community, in the Teatre de les Fontetes in the parish of La Massana. Now it is produced by English and English-speaking international volunteers as part of the Advent celebrations supported by the Comú de La Massana, [61] the local businesses [62] the Club International d'Andorra [63] and Vallnord ski station [64] to raise money, most recently, for the less privileged children of Andorra. [65] Australia [ edit ] Performers at a pantomime in Victoria, Australia a b c d Alessandra Zanobi. Ancient Pantomime and its Reception, Oxford University Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama At some point during the performance, characters including the Dame and the comic will sit on a bench and sing a cheerful song to forget their fears. The thing they fear, often a ghost, appears behind them, but at first the characters ignore the audience's warnings of danger. The characters soon circle the bench, followed by the ghost, as the audience cries "It's behind you!" One by one, the characters see the ghost and run off, until at last the Dame and the ghost come face to face, whereupon the ghost, frightened by the visage of the Dame, runs away. [54]

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Now we all like a baddy for the Christmas panto and Jason Marc-Williams’ Abanazar really brings that love to hate character to life on the Venue Cymru stage for Alladin, the children (big and small) all booed him when he came on the stage and there were a few moments where he kept a straight face when most of us would have broken down in laughter. Google Travel". www.google.com . Retrieved 2022-07-11. See also "Erth Abu Dhabi". Theatre By Erth . Retrieved 2022-07-11. The gags really flow through the show and James Lusted brings us a slightly series High Chancellor, but he still has the great comic timing that I’ve seen him with in the past, look out for some hysterical fart gags and belly laughs from Lusted during his time on the stage.