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JoeMc
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Joined: 3/13/06 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 832 |
 Posted: 3/21/08 at 9:38pm |
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Why not do a traditional 'Panto'. Lazy Bee Or P&M sales have jheaps of the to choose from. I know stuart & David will help with music suggestions & even promotional & merchamndising ideas & products.
Get into & intoduceryour punters to the wonderful world of "He's behind you!".
Great fun to do & the punters will ask for 'more'.
I only wish here in OZ our mob would get into it!
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"Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
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Lazy Bee
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Joined: 2/21/07 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 89 |
Posted: 3/22/08 at 7:29pm |
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Joe, I don't think that P&M do any British pantomimes. (David, please correct me if I'm wrong!)
I need to emphaise the British on the grounds that "pantomime" means something else (a form of mime) in other cultures, but in the UK it evolved into anything but a silent form. See "what is a pantomime, anyway" for a general description of the form or go to the panto page from which you can get to overviews of a wide variety of scripts, and from the overviews you can read the full scripts on-line (you need the free java plug-in to do that). There are some pockets of panto afficionados in the US - particularly where there is a British ex-pat community. (More in Canada, particularly in BC.) |
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P&M Sales
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Joined: 4/18/05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 38 |
Posted: 3/24/08 at 8:19am |
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Hi Stuart,
That was true until last Christmas, but now you're wrong! http://www.playsandmusicals.co.uk/pantomimes/index.htm |
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bbpchick
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Joined: 7/17/07 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 86 |
Posted: 3/24/08 at 3:23pm |
Where do I find this play? I would really love to read it. I googled it and all that came up was this discussion board. Which theater house has the script?
Thanks,
Kendra
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Nanette
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Joined: 8/01/06 Online Status: Offline Posts: 399 |
Posted: 3/24/08 at 3:33pm |
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As previously posted in this thread, French and Baker's. VERY funny read, although short (about 35 minutes).
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In a world of margarine, be butter!
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bbpchick
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Posted: 3/24/08 at 5:06pm |
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Thanks. Best place to hide something from me is in plain sight. Totally missed that this was more than one page.
*gets a sticky note with "Total Dork" written on it and sticks on forehead*.
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MartyW
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Posted: 3/24/08 at 8:58pm |
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Well.. It is short, but NOT that short.. lol..
But really, at the pace requred.. much longer and it would kill the actors!!
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Marty W
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JoeMc
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Posted: 3/24/08 at 10:13pm |
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With 'Panto' I have been trying for as long as I have been in OZ to get the mobs localy to do them.
Sure there are a few theatre groups here who have done a Panto over the years. Even though those theatre groups are mainly made up with pohmy members, they have been rather pathetic attempts.
I thgought I might have convinced my theatre to have a go last year. But they begged off & avioded the propsal. Even though I managed to get a CD of a local UK panto for them to view?
[The CD was sent to me by 'Flange' from the amdram. co.uk discussion forum, of one of his groups panto productions = which was great!]
However I have not given up yet & will be pushing to do one this year, at our newly refurbished venue.
Although as we don't have a lot of pohms in the group, it is difficult for them to understand the panto concept. Where by the 'Principal Boy' is female & the 'Dame' is a bloke?
But we might get it together for an 'Xmas in July' show?
On another tangent Stuart, I have them perusing Nigel Holloways Radio Play 'Big Idea' for possibly a near future season.
As soon as I can fleece the our local Council for a grant!
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Lazy Bee
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Posted: 3/25/08 at 10:01am |
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Joe,
Getting close to the original tangent (!), it might be worth considering some of James Barry's shows as an alternative to panto. They follow some of the patterns of British pantomime, but are really "all-purpose family shows" without the specific querks of panto. The link lists three of James's shows - two for small casts (including Three Musketeers for a cast of three) and his version of The Wizard of Oz, for a larger cast. |
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Nigel Holloway
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Joined: 3/27/08 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
Posted: 3/27/08 at 3:54am |
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As my name was mentioned (thank you, Joe), hope you don't mind if I throw in another suggestion:
A Savoy Christmas Carol - an adaptation of Dickens' original story set to the music of G&S
It's not a panto version (I think someone else has done that!), but it's true to the original 'feel' of Dickens' ghostly tale - perfect for an interesting Christmas Show with a difference.
For more details, see the website:
And you can get it from Stuart at Lazy Bee Scripts...
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Best wishes,
Nigel www.off-the-wall-plays.co.uk |
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