Panto: the Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Jan. 14th, 2013 06:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidYesterday I ushered for Imaginary Beasts' winter panto, which this year was based on the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, making it a peculiarly US-themed panto. As with last year's, it was fabulous. I realized I think of it as a permutation on a Purim shpiel, with all sorts of references to politics, popular culture, and modern music worked in.
This year's show featured puppet mice (and a frog, and a bat), a cross-dressed Mrs. Van Winkle ("va-va-va-voom, Viv is in the room!", evil baddie Liverwurst (with all sorts of accompanying sausage jokes), a couple of different shadow puppet moments, an over-spending debutante from 1781 with super-modern speech patterns, a Widow Pinchpenny who turns out not so bad after all, and more. All of it made more awesome by the kids enjoying themselves. I giggled and laughed and had a great time.
It runs through January 26 at the BCA; totally worth seeing.
This year's show featured puppet mice (and a frog, and a bat), a cross-dressed Mrs. Van Winkle ("va-va-va-voom, Viv is in the room!", evil baddie Liverwurst (with all sorts of accompanying sausage jokes), a couple of different shadow puppet moments, an over-spending debutante from 1781 with super-modern speech patterns, a Widow Pinchpenny who turns out not so bad after all, and more. All of it made more awesome by the kids enjoying themselves. I giggled and laughed and had a great time.
It runs through January 26 at the BCA; totally worth seeing.