Anyone seen one or planning to do so this year?
We had a great time yesterday evening at Greenwich Theatre watching its production of Dick Whittington. Set in 1960s but everything you would expect from a panto: sustained silliness, plenty of innuendo, a dame with a very big hairdo, a stream of good songs from the era, and we all got to sing along with the theme song from The Double Deckers. We were in a party of all adults and it looked as if 80% of the audience were over forty, but all the kids in the theatre enjoyed it as much as us.
It was small scale and clearly done on a budget, but not cheap; and we enjoyed it more than we went to the extravaganza at the London Palladium a couple of years ago. Exactly what panto should be.