“Oh no it’s not. Oh yes it is. Oh no it’s not.
Oh yes it is…!”
Greasepaint and powder time, folks!
Share your favourite panto, or panto character. Better still, what role would you take, or have you taken?
Curtain up in two minutes, Break a leg!
I played the cat in Dick Whittington when I was a boy…
Got told off though… I had a supply of “rats” (stockings filled with newspaper) which I tossed into the audience for effect.
Nearly caused a few heart attacks as it was pensioner’s night 
Well, I thought it was funny.
Problem might not have been so bad if I had done it at a time other than the “romantic interlude” between Dick and the leading lady 
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I too played the cat, it was the closest I got to a starring role.
Once played a Chinese policeman called Ben in Aladdin, there were 5 of us, Ben High, Ben Low, Ben Too, Ben Frow and Ben Down.
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Sexual innuendo always spiced up the most innocent of story-lines, luckily going over the kiddies’ heads, but greatly entertaining their parents…
Here’s Ian McKellen as Widow Twankey in the 2004 Old Vic production of Alladin. Adults liked the saucy response when he raised his skirts to avoid stepping in the decorator’s paint-pots, showing too much leg: “Ooo, your porch could do with a good lick, missus!”…
