Quote from: Sephirah on Yesterday at 04:07:58 PMThe only theatrical stuff I ever did was a school pantomime back in infant school. Um... not sure what the Canadian equivalent is. I think I was about 6 years old. Landed the part of Jack's mother in a star studded production of "Jack and the Beanstalk". You know, the one with a hatred of magic beans, lol. Replete with volleyballs for breasts, a horribly garish dress, and makeup that looked like it had been applied via The Simpsons makeup shotgun. One of my friends got cast as Jack. The second we saw each other we corpsed like you wouldn't believe. I almost tripped over the dress twice during rehearsal. But on the night, we killed it!
There is no Canadian (or other nationality) equivalent: British pantomime is a unique theatrical art form. One of our local theatre groups put on one that was billed as a "genuine British pantomime". It was not bad.
I did see a couple of real pantomimes as a kid in Glasgow, at the St. Andrew's Hall (before it burned down). Ali Baba was one, I think, and the other actually might have been Jack and the Beanstalk. I remember that the genie appeared and disappeared, with the requisite puff of smoke, through a trapdoor in the stage floor.
