Christmas Eve Panto - Cinderella

As is our usual tradition we headed into the city and to the Panto, with a stop at TGI for a cocktail or two before the fun began.  TGI's was not too busy and we worked our way through one or two of the cocktails on offer.  Egging each other on Mike began with a Bananamint Baileys  and I had a Strawberry Diaquari - both large of course, the Diaquari was lovely as always, Jamie stuck to chocolate milkshakes but was eyeing the Diaquari!!.  We then moved onto a Banana Sandwich (Mike) and a Royaltini (me) and finished off with a Red Army (me) and a Paradise Punch for Mike.  We should of course by that point of been on the floor but we were both pretty ok thankfully.

We headed off to the theatre and got our selves another couple of drinks and headed into the auditorium.  I have to confess I had left it very late to organise tickets as I had not been expecting great things and was not sure I wanted to endure an evening of Louis Spence but it was much better than I had anticipated and much better than the last couple of years.

Of course it was all there the booing at the baddie, the ugly sisters (and they were), the ghost, ghostbusters song  (we'll have to do it again then!!), the it's behind you, the beautiful frocks, the shetland ponies, the guy gets the girl.  But the peformances were pretty good Denise Pearson (the one from 5Star) was good and sang very well, Cinderella was good and had some stage presence, the comedien (despite his very inappropriate name) was funny as Buttons and Louie Spence was pretty good too and not quite as irritating as he might have been!  So overall a much better Panto than the past couple of years, but it still needs a big name to give it that extra special fizz!!


Ciao

Sue

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