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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2020 7:46:53 GMT
Given that panto can get away with all manner of absurdity they could work with distancing requirements by making a feature of them and lampshading them like crazy. Wake a sleeping princess with a kiss from a papier-mâché head on a long pole, sword fights with swords tied to the ends of brooms, that sort of thing.
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Post by CG on the loose on Oct 27, 2020 9:57:01 GMT
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Post by CG on the loose on Oct 28, 2020 13:37:08 GMT
Bristol (Robin Hood), Manchester and Milton Keynes (both Sleeping Beauty) announced - on sale next week, no casting details yet:
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Post by Mr Wallacio on Oct 29, 2020 17:24:17 GMT
With any luck I'll be going to the Bristol panto now it's been announced.
My friend and I go every year and this year we were going to take her daughter to her first show as she's finally old enough (at 5) to not be overly irritating and noisy throughout the thing). Plus 75 minutes is a nice length to maintain her attention.
Fingers crossed I don't wake up with a cough that morning.
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Post by talkingheads on Oct 30, 2020 8:16:14 GMT
Being that we have to wear masks throughout I'm guessing there's no ' Oh no he isn't/he's behind you' interaction. Going to be an interesting experiment!
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Post by talkingheads on Nov 5, 2020 0:07:01 GMT
Did anybody get tickets for Dick Whittington at The National?
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Post by Dr Tom on Nov 5, 2020 9:28:39 GMT
Did anybody get tickets for Dick Whittington at The National? I did get a single for the third row (which I think is the first one with seats rather than benches). Relatively painless, especially as I forgot about the on-sale and didn't try until about 30 minutes later. There was a very short queue but quickly found a date I could make. |
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Post by fiyero on Nov 5, 2020 10:54:13 GMT
Did anybody get tickets for Dick Whittington at The National? Thanks for the reminder, I have now. Went for the on stage seats for a unique view. |
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Post by TallPaul on Nov 9, 2020 17:41:16 GMT
Strong cast for Sleeping Beauty at Manchester Opera House - Jodie Penger, Jason Manford and Billy Pearce.
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Post by talkingheads on Nov 11, 2020 20:58:10 GMT
Strong cast for Sleeping Beauty at Manchester Opera House - Jodie Penger, Jason Manford and Billy Pearce. Sadly the date I looked at there was plenty of availability - but no provision for solo theatregoers at all! Not even at the sides or in the circle. |
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Post by talkingheads on Nov 12, 2020 11:04:24 GMT
Brilliant news for Nottingham with Paul Chuckle in Sleeping Beauty this year, the tagline presumably being Two Metre You:
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Post by TallPaul on Nov 12, 2020 12:52:36 GMT
With three pantos, they're spoilt for choice in Nottingham! (Anywhere else, I'd make the old joke about buses, but public transport in Nottingham is really good.) Have you been keeping a tally of all the Qdos announcements, talkingheads? There can't be many left now. Wasn't Milton Keynes on the list? I see that Les Dennis and Simon Webbe are doing Plymouth, with Craig Revel Horwood and Sooty doing Bristol, where single seats are available, despite the Hippodrome having only 31 more seats than Manchester Opera House Whether hotel rooms, cruises or theatre seats, it is still considered acceptable to charge single 'customers' extra, when other forms of discrimination have been outlawed. 😡 |
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Post by CG on the loose on Nov 12, 2020 13:43:12 GMT
Seven have been announced - Bristol, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Nottingham and Southampton. Milton Keynes is the only one of those for which casting is still awaited. So three more to come, I think.
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Post by talkingheads on Nov 12, 2020 17:28:08 GMT
With three pantos, they're spoilt for choice in Nottingham! (Anywhere else, I'd make the old joke about buses, but public transport in Nottingham is really good.) Have you been keeping a tally of all the Qdos announcements, talkingheads? There can't be many left now. Wasn't Milton Keynes on the list? I see that Les Dennis and Simon Webbe are doing Plymouth, with Craig Revel Horwood and Sooty doing Bristol, where single seats are available, despite the Hippodrome having only 31 more seats than Manchester Opera House Whether hotel rooms, cruises or theatre seats, it is still considered acceptable to charge single 'customers' extra, when other forms of discrimination have been outlawed. 😡 I have, I might go and see Sooty. I wanted to go to Manchester but the lack of single seats is very disappointing. |
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Post by princeton on Nov 12, 2020 17:54:24 GMT
The full list to date is on the Qdos website www.pantomime.com/venuesThe disparity in the availability of single seats is baffling - and it can't even come down to theatre owners. As mentioned there are no single seats at all at the Manchester Opera House, yet the other AGM venue announced so far, Bristol Hippodrome, has lots of single seats at a range of prices and in good locations (stalls centre aisle etc). It's disappointing that Michael Harrison hasn't made it a condition of the funding that there should be seat bubbles of all possible sizes. Even at the theatre which he said he used to go to as a teenage solo theatregoer, the Newcastle Theatre Royal, there are only two single seats - both in the upper circle with a restricted view. The argument that they've used previous years' bookings to work out the size and number of seating bubbles doesn't really hold given the household restrictions which are in place at the moment, and will probably still be come the time these productions open. |
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Post by properjob on Nov 12, 2020 18:15:17 GMT
With three pantos, they're spoilt for choice in Nottingham! (Anywhere else, I'd make the old joke about buses, but public transport in Nottingham is really good.) Three? The Theatre Royal and the Playhouse I know about, where is the third? I need to give them my money! |
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Post by TallPaul on Nov 12, 2020 18:41:29 GMT
With three pantos, they're spoilt for choice in Nottingham! (Anywhere else, I'd make the old joke about buses, but public transport in Nottingham is really good.) Three? The Theatre Royal and the Playhouse I know about, where is the third? I need to give them my money! It's a fair cop! I accept I may have stretched the definition slightly, but isn't Jack and the Beanstalk at the Playhouse a panto in everything but name, just aimed at a younger audience than Cinderella? |
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Post by properjob on Nov 13, 2020 12:24:03 GMT
Three? The Theatre Royal and the Playhouse I know about, where is the third? I need to give them my money! It's a fair cop! I accept I may have stretched the definition slightly, but isn't Jack and the Beanstalk at the Playhouse a panto in everything but name, just aimed at a younger audience than Cinderella? Don't scare me like that I thought there was a panto that had got away from me! I'm not counting Jack and the Beanstalk as I think that would be too odd for me to go to as a single 40ish man. However they are planning to offer it for streaming... |
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Post by properjob on Nov 13, 2020 12:27:27 GMT
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Post by talkingheads on Nov 13, 2020 18:50:49 GMT
What a shame if the rumour is true about there being no panto at the Palladium in the future as this was becoming an annual treat although, to be honest , using the same cast every year was beginning to become a bit boring.Shame they couldn't have used some of the other excellent panto performers around the UK for a change.Never mind there's always Wimbledon or Richmond to go to instead. Where did you hear that? |
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Post by alece10 on Nov 15, 2020 11:46:23 GMT
Has anyone heard if rehearsals have started for the Palladium panto yet or if there have been any further female cast announcements apart from EP?
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Post by CG on the loose on Nov 16, 2020 9:22:37 GMT
Think that's the last of the QDOS pantos now announced:
Milton Keynes Theatre - Sleeping Beauty, 19 Dec to 10 Jan
Regent Theatre, Stoke on Trent - Robinson Crusoe, 10 Dec to 3 Jan
Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham (in partnership with Brum Hipp - Robin Hood, 15 to 31 Jan with the cast (Craig R-H, Matt Slack etc) transferred hot-foot from their run in Bristol.
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Post by Dr Tom on Nov 16, 2020 10:06:27 GMT
Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham (in partnership with Brum Hipp - Robin Hood, 15 to 31 Jan with the cast (Craig R-H, Matt Slack etc) transferred hot-foot from their run in Bristol. Just booked for Birmingham in the pre-sale. Very little in the way of single tickets available. |
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Post by CG on the loose on Nov 16, 2020 11:37:00 GMT
No singles at all for Milton Keynes - groups of 2-6 only. But they are giving all tickets for the first performance free to NHS workers and their families, which I heartily approve of. Anyone know whether that's just MK, or a general thing for these National Lottery supported pantos?
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Post by TallPaul on Nov 16, 2020 11:53:38 GMT
Anyone know whether that's just MK, or a general thing for these National Lottery supported pantos? In Bristol, the opening date on the 'poster' is Friday 18 December, but the first performance that can be booked is Sunday. (SCD final on Saturday?) Then in Birmingham it's Friday again, and Saturday. I thought it was ATG being ATG, but that could well be the reason. |
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