[ Saturday, January 03, 2004 ]Panting goldmineStarbuck [23:55] Comments: 0 [] The Birmingham Rep's production of the Wizard Of Oz was rather good, in a singy-songy kind of way. And educational too - somehow I'd not absorbed the fact that "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" was a component of the aforementioned musical. Now the damn thing's stuck on my internal jukebox... Best bit - The Wizard, whilst hiding off-stage & speaking through his megaphone to "big himself up", sounding just like Mr Garrison from South Park. Worst bit - the flying monkey. Terrifying. No famous people in this not-strictly-a-pantomine-style pantomine. Not like one of these "glitzy" (read: tacky but oh-so-good) modern productions. But it has led me on to ponder my Top Ten Celebrities Wot I've Seen In Pantomine: 1 - Bob Carolgees and Spit the Dog - the Master 2 - Gus from Drop The Dead Donkey - terrifying 3 - Matthew Kelly - dual-role (ac/dc?) Peter Pan professional 4 - The Chuckle Brothers - chu chuckle 5 - Frank Bruno - hurr hurr hurr 6 - Little & Large - cringeworthy 7 - The White Power Ranger - why oh why? 8 - Wayne Sleep - although I've since discovered it wasn't him, but was in fact... 9 - ... Robin Cousins - there solely to figure-skate for 2 minutes at the end 10 - Don McClean - "Nightie Nightie", "Pyjama pyjama", how I laughed. Just outside of the top 10 - Rod Hull (whilst alive), Emu & Grotbags. I brought my own emu along to that one. Also, Vicky Michelle from 'Allo 'Allo. Legs like tree-trunks. 0 Comment(s):[ Click HERE for the VSX front-page... ] |
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