Pantoland at the Palladium

Alec10, Assuming it's basically the 2020 Panto, with added lyrics and lines tweaked for Donny Osmond, do you remember who played the Donny Osmond part in 2020?

Thanks, Alec, and lucky you!

Paige's "We Know Dick So Well" duet with Julian Clary in "Dick Whittington" was the single funniest thing I've seen in a Palladium Pantomime!

I struggle to imagine Donny Osmond being as game as Elaine Paige for this sort of thing, as I recall him slamming Lady Gaga for making a rude music video.

I hope I'm wrong and he's happy to duet to "Any Dick will Do" with Clary (which would bring the house down every night) but I can more easily imagine him just singing "Puppy Love" every night, with Clary whispering to the audience that "it isn't about puppies."

Anyway, I'm open minded. I hope he sends himself up mightily. 🤞🍀😁

Interesting that National Lottery funding is involved again.

Priority booking opens tomorrow at 10am. General booking from 10am on Tuesday.

I assume that because the production and other pantos was cut short, they didn't use all the money given to them by the Lottery but I assume they'll be using it in different ways.

Yes, just trying to pick myself up off the floor after seeing the pricing.

They are all desperate to hear his new song:

"And I call it Panto Love...."

I've just managed to book front row for the matinee on the 21st! They're definitely out there and this isn't selling out anywhere near as quick as I thought it might!

I’ve learnt to use multiple devices and my phone got straight in. I’ve gone for dead centre in the front row of the upper circle for £25. Would have paid a bit more to move downstairs but not £65!

Happy to grab a couple of seats in the Royal Circle ROW B. Checked with last year and the exact same seat was £10 less. Hey ho. Just glad its back !!!

Painless booking this morning, Yuletide jollity guaranteed for the evening I finish work for my Christmas break.

Having given up at 10.45 I tried again at 11.30, no queue and got the *exact seats I wanted for a matinee in less than 2 minutes.

I'm giving up on joining a queue in future for these sort of presales. Too stressful, and three times now I've got the seats I wanted after the queue cleared.

*It's only because I'm (too) fussy about where I sit though - needed two out of  only six possibles in the front row stalls. There's plenty of availability generally.

For last year's Pantoland -- my show was cancelled -- I had Stalls row C centre for £79.50. This year, that would have been £99.50, so roughly a 25% increase.

I went for row B centre at £89.50. Wonder how much Mr Osmond is getting of that. (I'm going in spite of his casting rather than because of it.)

For the performance I looked at, there were five £65.00 seats on the front row, three to the left of the left aisle, and two to the right of the right aisle. They might appeal to some. Obviously with dynamic pricing, prices and pricing block shapes will vary.

My booking session wouldn't load properly in Internet Explorer, but fortunately I had a Chrome session not far behind that worked.

Mine was a Chrome desktop experience. Other devices and browsers will no doubt behave differently.

The system is not intuitive.  After selecting a date/time from the calendar, the first panel of the next screen to load is a column on the left that invites you to select the number of tickets.  Ignore this unless you want seats to be picked for you.  Instead, wait for the seating plan on the right to load -- it does eventually (after between 10 and 60 seconds I was finding) -- then select directly.

On my first attempt, I entered that I wanted two tickets, the seating plan then appeared, and I selected my two seats, only to discover I now had four, as there were two other seats selected for me, hidden off the bottom of the screen.

UPDATE: Just checked several dates, and this opening sale appears to have identical pricing for every single show.