Happy Day #6 (again a bit late, I'm on the installment plan)

[boudiceaborn]

Watching a performer belt out "The Heart Will Go On" while having water thrown at her, toilet paper shredded by a lawn-moving implement onto her, and being covered in silly string.

Oh, pantomime!

Comments

[crazy_go_nuts]

I wish we had that in America. All we apparently get is karaoke.

[boudiceaborn]

Yeah, it's pretty culture specific and odd, and I certainly enjoyed it. There was a high incidence of cross-dressing as well, which is always good.

[woland]

wait, is it still pantomime if there's singing?

[crazy_go_nuts]

It means something different in the UK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantomime

I learned this watching british "Whose Line is it Anyway".

[boudiceaborn]

Pantos have everything except miming now, pretty much! Ours (Robinson Crusoe and the Caribbean Pirates) had sea shanties, a shipwreck, two 3D chase segments, a cabaret, a 7 ft tall robot called Titan (who sings and dances), and Robinson riding a dinosaur. The actor fell over while doing this, and the dinosaur was so heavy that he couldn't get up on his own, which was unintentional and hilarious!

Robinson's mother was the 'Dame', who isn't and who wears a different extra-ordinary outfit for each scene. Some highlights were dressing as a Basset's Liquorice Allsort with the Allsorts man on her hat and dressing in a mermaid style evening gown with a hat shaped like a prominent bridge in Newcastle. Also she had a hat shaped like a plate of chips and sausages. Her hats were prety much the show-stealers.