hey
i'm not the one who cast pamela anderson in it!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 10:09, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

It is really wrong isn't it

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 10:10, Reply)

*sads*

(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 1 Dec 2010, 10:10, Reply)

Well they used to cast Jim Davidson, which is considerably worse I'd say.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 10:11, Reply)

i remember seeing mr t in a panto
and les dawson. and bernard bresslaw. and michael barrymore.

les was a bit of a legend, he kept ad-libbing and had the rest of the cast in stitches.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 10:12, Reply)

I saw Mr T
and Bradley Walsh
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 10:14, Reply)

I have never been to a pantomime.
They sound fucking ghastly.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 10:17, Reply)

They are
My worst/best was an Easter panto (I didn't know such a thing existed) 'starring' Kavana (of I can Make You Feel Good and Grease is the Word fame) and some drunken scouse girl off Big Brother.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 10:21, Reply)

I am genuinely shaking my head in disgust.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 10:21, Reply)

they are, but....
e would love it when she gets to be about 4, she really would!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 10:23, Reply)

Her relatives in the Kentish peasantry can take her.
Fuck that shit.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 10:28, Reply)

"fuck that nasty shit"
is one of my favourite, if less ladylike, expressions.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 10:36, Reply)

I've helped to organise one
My then-gf wrote a script, which while it wasn't incredible, wasn't bad at all, but seriously suffered from a lack of laughs. Over a few months, we managed to make it funnier bit by bit, but still not incredible. She ran what was happening on stage with the actors, I made sure that backstage wasn't a calamity, that the stage hands knew when to be on and off the stage, and also helped set up the lighting and microphones, etc. I was also the one who'd bollock people if they didn't do things properly, the useless fucks.

That panto stressed me to hell, but by christ it was good fun. When it came to opening day, it turned out they'd suprised me with a part in the play, I got to play 'Peter Pan's Shadow' (and the bastards wouldn't even let me black up). I had to wear a black t shirt, black shorts, and tights on every open part of my body. I was not pleased.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 10:38, Reply)