COWARDLY LION JUMPS SIX FEET INTO THE AIR (nice trick!)
Ai-yeeeee!

Has anyone seen the the Cowardly Lion?

Last I saw, the Cowardly Lion was putting a magician's tuxedo on a bush shaped like like a scarecrow whilst reading positional directions from one of the Prop books. What amazing talent!

Has anyone seen the tumbleweed? I was just using it to dry some props on and a strong gust took it. Last seen backstage, about 2 feet tall, 2 feet wide, has 3 moustaches and a goatee beard.

I thought I saw it, but it was just a group of operatic tenors

Aladin: the pantomime opera? Oh dear.

Any soft landings in the props box? Health and safety not entirely happy about the six foot jump.

I've got a box with six feet - I think it was left over from the budget Discworld production that was touring.

Those weren't tenors, that was me with my elevator shoes on!

Health and safety should know better than to patrol near a pantomime.

If nothing else, the "Oh yes it is!" is disconcerting to the poor dears....

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

"Oh no, it's not!"

Edited to apologize for sounding negative.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/30/2009 11:14AM by MistyCat.

Right - December is here - time to start in earnest.

Evil Genie: Switchbadger
Pantomime Dame: robert
Silhouette of Aladin: SkidMarks
Pantomime Elephant: Speckles
Chorus: Little Gegs, old mother geg.
Henchman: MartinB
Cowardly Lion: EgonSpengler
Flying cyberman/bunny: Cannibal Rabbit.
Lost souls: Three operatic tenors.
Evil Uncle Vizier: Bonzai Kitten
Jasmin: MistyCat (sneaked it in, in the hope that he wouldn't notice>


Props Dept: ibborobb
Props:The Magic Book of Haberdashery, Topiary and Vector Calculus.
Mobius lamp crafted from washing up bottles.
False moustaches - various.
Rug.
Tumbleweed.
Tree.
Policeman's helmet
Magician's tuxedo on a bush shaped like like a scarecrow
(All donations gratefully received.)
Six legged box

Sets and scenery: BibwitHart


Director: Mr de Mille



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/20/2010 01:48PM by geg.

Ooh, who'll be the Ugly Sisters?

I'm still curious to see who's going to be Aladin. Although that would be a fun challenge. Attempt to put on a production of "Aladin and the Magic Lamp" without ever having or mentioning an Aladin.

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You can't spell "fundamental" without "fun", "damn" and "mental."

Your powers of perception strike again. I hadn't even noticed! Fancy that.


(edited due to poor spelling caused by lack of food)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/02/2009 10:13AM by BibwitHart.

geg, thank you just enough for allowing me to audition for the part of Jasmine. I'll have to check with Wardrobe on the suitability of the virtual trousers. My legs are registered under the Geneva Convention as WMDs (White, Maximum Dazzle), and having just recently had a double cataract operation (yes, really - successful, and YAY!!) I'm very aware of potential eye damage to other innocent (or even guilty) cast members.

The task may well be beyond my acting abilities.

Wikapedia tells me "When she is first introduced, Princess Jasmine is a few days short of her 16th birthday. The outfit she is most associated with is a blue bedlah outfit with long poofy bustle pants and a top which leaves her forearms and midriff bare, along with copper earrings and gold slipper-like shoes.

This may be rather difficult to play convincingly (I'm male, 63 and bearded, and when I bat my eyelashes the effect is as though I use actual bats), and as my friend Hotblack Desiato suggested, my performance might best be observed from the very back of a theatre situated on a different planet.

Copper earrings would leave one's ears a tad green?

MistyCat; I'm sure you can manage to pull the character off just fine, just wear brighter trousers and blind your audience.

As the principal boy is almost always a girl, the dame a man and most t.v. & film teenagers in their late twenties/early thirties, it looks as if the role of Princess Jasmine was designed for you!

Good news about the cataracts. (What are you going to do with two waterfalls, or did they keep them in the hospital?)

Thank you. For the cause, I shall enJasminate myself.


The cataracts are in the ophthalmologist's garden, watering the irises.

Just don't get the enJasminator and the Bedazzler confused - that could be painful.

Perhaps this Swiss band can perform Jasmine's entrance music?