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Post by daniel on Jan 5, 2018 10:06:44 GMT
My main thought of why I don't think it'll be Peter Pan is that Qdos are doing it in Birmingham next year. Not impossible, but would Michael Harrison do the same show for his two flagships?
I'd put my money on Snow White - the only reason I'd put that ahead of Jack and the Beanstalk is that Jack has just been done in Wimbledon - I don't think Snow White has been done close to London this year? (Happy to be corrected!)
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Post by westended on Jan 5, 2018 10:38:04 GMT
My main thought of why I don't think it'll be Peter Pan is that Qdos are doing it in Birmingham next year. Not impossible, but would Michael Harrison do the same show for his two flagships? I'd put my money on Snow White - the only reason I'd put that ahead of Jack and the Beanstalk is that Jack has just been done in Wimbledon - I don't think Snow White has been done close to London this year? (Happy to be corrected!) Churchil Theatre Bromley did Snow White this season - quite close to London... |
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Post by firefingers on Jan 5, 2018 11:06:30 GMT
There aren't that many pantos to pick from.
Cinderella - Done
Dick Whittington- Done
Aladdin - On in town already
Snow White
Jack & the Beanstalk
Peter Pan
Sleeping Beauty
That's about it for the Qdos stable? Don't think they do a Mother Goose or Babes in the Wood.
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Post by westended on Jan 5, 2018 11:20:05 GMT
There aren't that many pantos to pick from. Cinderella - Done Dick Whittington- Done Aladdin - On in town already Snow White Jack & the Beanstalk Peter Pan Sleeping Beauty That's about it for the Qdos stable? Don't think they do a Mother Goose or Babes in the Wood. They might do Babes in the Woods because it has been performed many times at the Palladium back when they did panto regularly. Maybe the are following old traditions? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2018 11:23:15 GMT
They should do 'Peter Pan'. Bring Back Lulu!  |
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Post by daniel on Jan 5, 2018 12:05:12 GMT
My main thought of why I don't think it'll be Peter Pan is that Qdos are doing it in Birmingham next year. Not impossible, but would Michael Harrison do the same show for his two flagships? I'd put my money on Snow White - the only reason I'd put that ahead of Jack and the Beanstalk is that Jack has just been done in Wimbledon - I don't think Snow White has been done close to London this year? (Happy to be corrected!) Churchil Theatre Bromley did Snow White this season - quite close to London... right you are! Puts my theory out of the window then, who knows  |
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Post by Oleanna on Jan 5, 2018 12:28:38 GMT
My main thought of why I don't think it'll be Peter Pan is that Qdos are doing it in Birmingham next year. Not impossible, but would Michael Harrison do the same show for his two flagships? I'd put my money on Snow White - the only reason I'd put that ahead of Jack and the Beanstalk is that Jack has just been done in Wimbledon - I don't think Snow White has been done close to London this year? (Happy to be corrected!) Above The Stag are doing “Snow White: Rotten to the Core”! 😛 |
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Post by westended on Jan 5, 2018 13:51:13 GMT
For Peter Pan, The Twins FX could do some amazing effects!
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Post by johartuk on Jan 5, 2018 15:03:09 GMT
There aren't that many pantos to pick from. Cinderella - Done Dick Whittington- Done Aladdin - On in town already Snow White Jack & the Beanstalk Peter Pan Sleeping Beauty That's about it for the Qdos stable? Don't think they do a Mother Goose or Babes in the Wood. Robin Hood is another Qdos one. |
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Post by idinafanzel on Jan 5, 2018 15:21:53 GMT
It depends. Different at each performance. Most often Charlie, Emma, Gary and Diversity exit through stage door. The others eg Elaine and Julian often take another exit. Thanks Steve, I was hoping to meet Elaine in particular. Has anyone had any luck with her coming out the stage door? Elaine, Julia, Nigel leave round the back of the theatre in the alleyway where their respective cars will pick them up. Should you wish to meet them |
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Post by Distant Dreamer... on Jan 5, 2018 15:46:46 GMT
Thanks Steve, I was hoping to meet Elaine in particular. Has anyone had any luck with her coming out the stage door? Elaine, Julia, Nigel leave round the back of the theatre in the alleyway where their respective cars will pick them up. Should you wish to meet them Thanks, is that the alleyway to the right of the stage door? |
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Post by idinafanzel on Jan 5, 2018 16:22:05 GMT
Yes! Correct.
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Post by hulmeman on Jan 6, 2018 17:37:44 GMT
Two separate questions for this thread. Is Charlie Stemp staying until the last performance on the 14th or leaving early to travel to NYC?
Secondly Babes in the Wood has been a Palladium favourite over the years and in nowadays tied in with Robin Hood.
Snow White is a Palladium possibility for next year because Warwick Davis has a very high profile at the moment to lead the "dwarfs".
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2018 18:07:56 GMT
Two separate questions for this thread. Is Charlie Stemp staying until the last performance on the 14th or leaving early to travel to NYC? Secondly Babes in the Wood has been a Palladium favourite over the years and in nowadays tied in with Robin Hood. Snow White is a Palladium possibility for next year because Warwick Davis has a very high profile at the moment to lead the "dwarfs". I like what you did there...  |
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Post by firefingers on Jan 6, 2018 18:32:18 GMT
I suspect Warwick wouldn't agree to work for Qdos unless they started using real dwarfs in all their pantos again. They have people on their knees with fake legs instead. He runs the main dwarf casting agency (Willow Management) so them no longer employing dwarfs will not sit well with him.
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Post by hulmeman on Jan 6, 2018 18:43:30 GMT
Two separate questions for this thread. Is Charlie Stemp staying until the last performance on the 14th or leaving early to travel to NYC? Secondly Babes in the Wood has been a Palladium favourite over the years and in nowadays tied in with Robin Hood. Snow White is a Palladium possibility for next year because Warwick Davis has a very high profile at the moment to lead the "dwarfs". I like what you did there... I used the word "high" not "tall" |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2018 18:46:54 GMT
Oh, I see...  |
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Post by shady23 on Jan 6, 2018 19:16:43 GMT
My main thought of why I don't think it'll be Peter Pan is that Qdos are doing it in Birmingham next year. Not impossible, but would Michael Harrison do the same show for his two flagships? The two most talked about pantos this season have probably been this one and the "ruder" version put on by Qdos at Manchester so stranger things have happened. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2018 9:07:40 GMT
It’s been almost forty years since I last saw a Palladium panto; I remember my sister, then aged six, going up onto the stage to ‘sing’ with Danny La Rue. She was convinced she had sung with ‘a lady’. Over the intervening years I’ve not felt the urge to attend many others, but the promise of seeing Elaine Paige and Charlie Stemp this year, not to mention the draw of it being A Palladium Panto was too much to resist, and we took our seats yesterday afternoon in more or less the same row as we’d sat all those years ago. (Back then they’d been ‘comps’ towards the very end of the season, in April! This time they were a bit more expensive!)
Well from the minute it started I could feel myself grinning...
This is, as many others have mentioned, a superb production with a superb cast. Led by Julian in his outrageously over the top costumes, it was a joy to see EP belt out her signature tunes, even if the words had been tinkered with- no mean feat keeping Mr Clary on track in I Know Dick So Well (NB it was Dick that might have been ‘the other way’ not the actor playing him...) and another joy to see Charlie leap about and pirouette with that cheeky smile once more. (I do hope we don’t lose him to the US of A). How fantastic is Gary Wilmott with his chocolate bars and tube stations? And how fantastic is Nigel Havers, hamming it up with his props and his gyrations, desperately trying to keep up with Diversity who were there for... well, a bit of diversity, I suppose. I enjoyed Paul Zerdin’s antics, and he was particularly charming with a delightful little chap up there with him yesterday, and I wondered if that little chap would remember it all in forty years’ time...
I loved the giant rat, and the bus and the boat, although it was hard to believe that any ship would have suffered quite so perilously on the high seas with some of the fittest sailor-boys in charge (their sequins out-dazzling and their trousers out-tightening even Strictly!) In The Navy indeed! The Twelve days of Christmas brought the house down, quite literally, and the sets and costumes just got better and better… You could see how they’d spent your money.
And it occurred to me as we were leaving (out of an exit that led us Lord Lloyd Webber knows where…) that apart from the frivolity and camp, panto has a valuable lesson to teach us all. Oh yes it does! It teaches us that it is great to laugh, at the actors who wear silly costumes that look like clocks, and who carry daft props in the shapes of barrels that show their ‘bottoms’, and at some of the members of the audience for calling out “Hello Jack!” just like the actor told them to. But panto also teaches us that because the actors laugh at themselves (all right some of it is rehearsed…!) it’s okay for us to laugh at ourselves too.
What a way to start my theatre-going year!
The Grinning Man for me next weekend.
I hope I’m grinning just as much after that.
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Post by tonyloco on Jan 8, 2018 9:29:06 GMT
Yes, Caiaphas, I was there yesterday at the 5pm show and I agree with every word you say. It was all just wonderful. And, like last year's 'Cinderella', despite the 'spesh' acts like Diversity and Paul Zerdin, everything melded together convincingly, which I can't say for the first Palladium panto I saw back in the 1960s starring Cliff Richard and the Shadows!
One thing that struck me is that although it was a bit light on some traditional panto material like the Ghost Scene ('It's behind you!'), the kitchen scene where everybody gets covered in flour and a full version of the songsheet number, I was rather glad to avoid them, especially when what replaced them was so entertaining and fitted together so well.
I was also impressed at how neatly the writers had repeated from last year Nigel Havers's participation as an actor desperate to increase his role but had done it so cleverly so that he became a major part of the fun.
It was also my first show for 2018 and I just hope the new year continues so spectacularly well.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2018 11:32:49 GMT
Oh tony, if only I'd known you were going to be there... (I'd have baked a cake. Or worn my spangly waistcoat. Or even said 'hello'...!  ) We got talking to a couple of gents behind us, or they got talking to us is probably more accurate. One introduced the other as 'Panto Queen': "He's been to seven already this season. That's right. Seven! This is his second time to see this one... Not a patch on Cinderella last year which you can catch in Birmingham if you're near there... (we're not) blah, blah, blah...." Very friendly and beating a hasty retreat at the end to catch their train back to Brighton. |
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Post by basdfg on Jan 8, 2018 16:30:44 GMT
Who played the Sultan yesterday as Ashley and Jordan Banjo were filming Dancing on Ice.
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Post by Stephen on Jan 8, 2018 20:14:35 GMT
Who played the Sultan yesterday as Ashley and Jordan Banjo were filming Dancing on Ice. Warren Russell went on for Ashley yesterday. I saw him in their first routine and he looked similar (from the back of the upper circle) and seemed confident at the front of the routine. |
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Post by fiyero on Jan 13, 2018 22:20:12 GMT
Who played the Sultan yesterday as Ashley and Jordan Banjo were filming Dancing on Ice. Warren Russell went on for Ashley yesterday. I saw him in their first routine and he looked similar (from the back of the upper circle) and seemed confident at the front of the routine. Does anyone know if this will be the same tomorrow? Will the Sultan have less in his team or did they have spares? I felt the need for Dick so am off to the final performance tomorrow |
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Post by callum on Jan 13, 2018 23:33:44 GMT
Absolutely hilarious this evening - laughed like a drain! Any murmurings of this being filmed? I think these would be excellent to show on ITV like the pantos from the early 2000s...
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