On the coldest night of last year Pirate Mick, myself and a friend headed on a road trip across the river to Hull. We were joining other friends from our burly family for our annual pantomime!
I adore pantomimes. Take a look at a couple of posts I did on my other blog.
This year we all decided to try a different venue and headed to Hull's Light stream Stadium the 'Queens Theatre'.
Looking good!! Love the Grumbleweeds from listening to them on Radio two's comedy hour. Adore Zippy and George from Rainbow and really like Linda Lusardi. My daddy really likes Linda Lusardi, I think for her presenting skills!!
When we got there, after a trek across Hull we arrived in a massive car park with a huge tent in front of us. It was a bit like a science fiction film and I was not sure we would return!!
We headed to the toilets, which were outside in portokabins but they were quite posh, but sadly no water!!
We met in the large foyer which was meant to be a fairy tale wonderland!! Brothers Grimm Fairy tale. The Christmas trees had no working lights on. The ride for children was covered with tarpaulin. The hot dog stand did not open and the doughnut stand had around twenty doughnuts and then had to close. No music, no atmosphere. In fact I am convinced it had been produced by Banksy as it was a run for the money on Dismaland!! I had been promised the ability to meet Cinderella's meercat. Obviously the meercat was too embarrassed to be seen in this shambles and did not show!!
It was also freeeezing!! If we had been told the show was in a tent we would had dressed appropriately. I felt for the young girls who were dressed in their Cinderella outfits.
The show was fun, however I did find Linda Lusardi too nice to be evil. I did think maybe the whole thing was a dream as in the song 'Old McDonald' Buttons sang 'Old McDonald had a donkey' and the whole audience sang 'Woof woof'. I gave up at that point!!
George and Zippy were not used enough but the Grumbleweeds were really good and brought much needed humour to the production.
The songs for me were a little too slow. I only like upbeat sing a long songs in a pantomime but that is personal preference!
This experience left me with story to tell but maybe not the fairy tale it was meant to be!!
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| Do you like my light up necklace? My jumper is from Marks and Spencer and has a cat in a sequin crown!! Amazing!! Washes great and just up my street. Cats and sequins!! |
Did you go to a pantomime? What did you think? At least I now can no longer ponder, 'What if Banksy did pantomimes?'
Images copyright: Lorna Liza
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