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Pantomime Forever: A Grand Old British Christmas Tradition |
| Section: THE ARTS / THEATER |
| Author: Edward Pearce |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 2,582 Words, 15,316 Characters |
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January 1752, early in the evening at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden: 1,300 people are crowded into the pit, the boxes, and the galleries. Stage and auditorium alike are brightly lit; clothes seem to shimmer in the heat. The audience applauds loudly as Lun, otherwise the theater's manager, John Rich, takes center stage.
January 1898, late in the evening at the Britannia Theatre, Hoxton: Outside, the streets terrorized a mere decade before by Jack the Ripper hide their grime and dilapidation under a sheet of snow. Inside, the pit and single gallery are crammed with four thousand East Enders, all forgetting their miseries as George Liupino raises his broadsword against a stage demon.
December 1987, in the afternoon: The Churchill Theatre in Bomley, Kent, stands in the middle o...
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... stories, Toad of Toad Hall based on The Wind in the Willows, or David Wood's The Gingerbread Man--all reappear each Christmas in London and the outlying regions. But all contain, to some degree, the hallowed "Look behind you!", "Oh yes he is!"--"Oh no he isn't!" and sing-along elements which are the every stuff of pantomime. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose. Ring up the curtain!
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