PANTOLAAAAAND!
Dec. 10th, 2007 12:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rowanberriesContext: I just got back from this piece of genius.
You know it's going to be a fun (if befuddling) evening when you get back from the bar to find your family giggling over the fact that Elle Macpherson and her kids just wandered by, Mark Gatiss is over in one corner, and Kevin Spacey is hanging out and chatting just behind your mother's shoulder.
Oh my. Stephen Fry is a naughty, naughty man. XD!
Everything was awesome. It was even awesome when they had a technical hitch in the interval and the aforementioned Mr. Spacey wandered up onto the stage to say, "So, I hope you're enjoying the show. Unfortunately the Safety Curtain has decided to be even more safety conscious than usual and... stay down. We need to replace the chain, but luckily we keep lots of chains backstage. Thank you!" *Happy sigh*
And the show!
Floating narrators! Hand puppet mice! A prince that casually strips down to underwear on stage, wanders behind a just translucent waist-high screen, and removes said underwear too! Inflatable pumpkins! Cake! Buttons/Dandini! Pure filth in incredibly obvious innuendo form!
Here. Have an example.
Cinderella: *Sleeps*
Cockerel: Cock-a-doodle-do!
Cinderella: *Half asleep* Oh... your highness? What an urgent and insistent cock!
Entire audience including theoretically innocent kidlets: *Shrieks*
The only thing missing was a female principal boy, and... well, the stripperprince was an acceptable substitute, really. XD
Gooood evening.
For Americans and other strange creatures: Pantomime. There will be scans from the programme when I'm awake enough to do them.
Goodnight!
You know it's going to be a fun (if befuddling) evening when you get back from the bar to find your family giggling over the fact that Elle Macpherson and her kids just wandered by, Mark Gatiss is over in one corner, and Kevin Spacey is hanging out and chatting just behind your mother's shoulder.
Oh my. Stephen Fry is a naughty, naughty man. XD!
Everything was awesome. It was even awesome when they had a technical hitch in the interval and the aforementioned Mr. Spacey wandered up onto the stage to say, "So, I hope you're enjoying the show. Unfortunately the Safety Curtain has decided to be even more safety conscious than usual and... stay down. We need to replace the chain, but luckily we keep lots of chains backstage. Thank you!" *Happy sigh*
And the show!
Floating narrators! Hand puppet mice! A prince that casually strips down to underwear on stage, wanders behind a just translucent waist-high screen, and removes said underwear too! Inflatable pumpkins! Cake! Buttons/Dandini! Pure filth in incredibly obvious innuendo form!
Here. Have an example.
Cinderella: *Sleeps*
Cockerel: Cock-a-doodle-do!
Cinderella: *Half asleep* Oh... your highness? What an urgent and insistent cock!
Entire audience including theoretically innocent kidlets: *Shrieks*
The only thing missing was a female principal boy, and... well, the stripperprince was an acceptable substitute, really. XD
Gooood evening.
For Americans and other strange creatures: Pantomime. There will be scans from the programme when I'm awake enough to do them.
Goodnight!
