Oh yes we did!
- 14 January 2010 00:2337500We went to see Peter Pan at the Marlowe Arena this evening, simply because Ade Edmondson was in it. I haven't been to panto for years but really enjoyed it, and got into the swing of it. The kids loved it too. Rick kind of went under duress! I'm just waiting for him to add his critical review, expecially of the bit where they sang Light My Fire by the Doors!
, or the bit where Dave Lee picked on him because he wasn't clapping! 
He did admit to having a few laughs though, especially where things went wrong!
If you haven't been yet it's still on til the weekend, might be a few seats left. - 14 January 2010 01:0937506The experience was similar to having one's head boiled in a large tub of chip pan fat while an evil dwarf repeatedly stabs your legs with a rusty coat hangar, all the while your least favourite songs are being pumped into your brain at dangerous volumes and the skin from your back is being slowly peeled off by an angry monkey and salt is gently dabbed onto the wounds while they are still fresh. The interval was like a type of liberation that I can barely describe. It is probably the closest I have ever come to experiencing "bliss" in its purest, most true form. However this feeling was smeared with the sheer horror of the impending act 2, and the devastation of having to head back to the chair for another hour of cultural torture was more than I could bear.
But I am a warrior. I am a survivor of the panto experience. I'm sure that in the fullness of time, I will learn to understand the strange ways that this experience has enriched me, strengthened me, heightened my sense of self-awareness and bolstered my tolerance to the lowest art form. At least, dear reader, this is the hope that I now live by. The alternative is, of course, that the experience will leave me scarred and traumatized, weakening my resolve in life and resulting in a total collapse of sanity and mental breakdown. There is an old saying that "whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger". But, after this evening's vile experience, I am starting to wonder if a type of "living death" is possible, and pondering my future as I feel doomed to roam the underbelly of entertainment hell for all eternity.
Mind you, it did have a few funny moments and the beer was nice.
- 14 January 2010 08:0637514Well thank you Rick and Claire - did you go to the same Panto ?
Great tongue in cheek description of a Panto Rick - and I thought they were suppoosed to be fun - good job the beer was O.K.
Roger - 14 January 2010 19:2737574He's Behind You! Oh No, He isn't! We'll have to do it again then, Won't we, Whoops!
- 14 January 2010 22:0737604Very good, how many times have you been to the Canterbury panto then Barry!
I love Rick's posting! And yes Roger, we did see the same panto, but through different specs!
- 15 January 2010 11:5137661Once or twice in the not to distant past, Oh No, He Didn't! Rick was probably watching the panto through 3D specs
- 15 January 2010 20:2637768I have loved going to the panto with Victoria since she was about 5 years and is now firmly in the calendar in the run up to Christmas. We took David one year, never again though as he fell asleep during it - not sure how he managed that with all the noise going on around him!
- 15 January 2010 23:0737813I do remember taking cubs to the Marlow on several occasions' way back when to see the Panto, Now let me think were you not one of those cubs Rick?
Anyway I like to take the grandchildren these days and they love it, nothing wrong with a bit of shouting out and seeing the kids have fun. Missed it this year though, still there is always next year. - 15 January 2010 23:0737814I do remember taking cubs to the Marlow on several occasions' way back when to see the Panto, Now let me think were you not one of those cubs Rick?
Anyway I like to take the grandchildren these days and they love it, nothing wrong with a bit of shouting out and seeing the kids have fun. Missed it this year though, still there is always next year. - 15 January 2010 23:5237822Im going to see the panto at the Town Hall tomorrow .Lots of local talented youngsters.