Snow White - Palladium Panto 2018

And my logic is I will not pay for the same thing again. You are the one with the comment.

Few thoughts after seeing this tonight, contains some spoilers so skip if you don’t wanna know.

Having already seen Cinderella and Dick Whittington, this is definitely the poorest of the three but it still is a good night out.

As callum said the matierial is mostly new with one or two of Zerdins oldies still in there. I know plot isn’t a massive deal when it comes to the palladium panto but the seem to have pretty much forgotten about plot here and instead give us a variety show. Regarding special effects apart from the front cloth flying out into the audience and up into the roof it’s everything we have seen before. Nigel flies (same way as Hannah Waddingham did when she played the witch in wizard of Oz) a sligh flies (Same as the carriage in Cinderella) and there is a giant dragon (same as rat from last year). This year there is a lot of cloths and not a lot of actual physical set. Julian is as Julian always is and Dawn French is very funny but an awful baddie. She would have been much better in a different “fairy type” role, I mean they actually make her a fairy in the end! The role is very much played for laughs and there is no villain or evil to her. Snow White we don’t really see, she pops in every now and then, same with the dwarfs and as for Vincent and Flavia well they have 8 minutes stage time max (they are playing ghosts so kinda hard to work in any more stage time)

Overall it was a good night out, standouts being Julian and Dawn. Wish we had seen more of Charlie. Think they got a bit lazy this year hopefully next year will be back to standard as previous two years and hopefully they drop the nigel joke, it’s gone past being funny now.

Dawn did very well, I LOVED her but it wasn’t the right role for her I dont think.

First of the Palladium pantos I’ve seen so can’t compare but I really enjoyed this. Sets very impressive, especially the effect in the second act which in my opinion puts the Miss Saigon helicopter and 42nd Street stairs to shame. Very impressed with the cast. I liked that Dawn French mocks her inability to play the bad person - it makes it more entertaining. Charlie Stemp - can’t complain, I just wish 42nd Street wasn’t closing so he could play Billy.

Jeez last years panto was lazy enough but this just sounds as bad.

Saw this on Friday and was entertained but felt the plot was very thin and was unlike any panto I’ve seen before.

Felt like a series of sketches with a very loose story to it.

Saying that cast and production quality was excellent.

1. Yes. Can't remember the language, but there was enough bad language in the rest of the show it didn't really have an impact.

2. Kids 3 and 4 were obviously plants. Kids 1 and 2, less obvious. One of the giveaways (apart from the bad acting) is that there were practically no kids in the building and certainly none in the area where "dad" was meant to be sitting.

Yes and Yes!! The whole planted kids thing needs to go, it’s cringe.

That the kids at the end aren't really from the audience, they're actors (or at least some of them are).

As to the other question, robotics is quite advanced these days.

it was Connie last night as well

Yes she did. And Zerdin called her the wrong name and she yelled at him something like I'm called Connie! And the audience loved it. Sad to know this was all planned ;-)