Topic: Panto Time cont...

[Hugh_Jones]

I just hope you like your part oZzY - so much better than  messing about with poison ivy (provided you keep your brussels sprouts intact).

[Hyacinth]

..Great Goings, Hugh! Bravo!!! And making Oz King was Inspirational ;D ;D ;D - think we should do it for real...

Now then...me a Pensher AND a Producer??? Thought that the only lady allowed to make medical miracles happen round here at Xmas time, was Mary :o

but emmm, you see, when I suggested Robin Hood, it was just a suggestion, is all  ;) .... script looks good (script is b. excellent actually)...but praps we might consider others as well....how about Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves (given lottie vandalism...and someone can play EJ's gate)...could even set it in Baghdad & be cutting-edge topical. And we could fire some thieves up to the moon with Turkish Wild Rocket, or something? Oh, and those bits of carpet you cover your lottie plots with?  Magical things can happen with them..)  

Let's see if you can come up with a plot...

PS can I still be Grassy Nell?? I don't mind being type-cast, at all!!! - Lish

actually, just reading that through, praps we could do a Panto and a Christmas Spectacular?? Lots going on in Ali Baba & Jethro will have fun catapulting peeps around...(I still want to be Grassy Nell, tho)

[jethro]

You bet i would  ;D you should see the size of my catapult  ;D  ;) .

[Hugh_Jones]

Sorry Lishka, but writing that rubbish took me nearly six hours, and I now have Repetetive Strain Injury in my right shoulder, a stiff neck and `Monitor` eyes. Having to type this with one hand and use my mouse left handed.

However, the Board doesn`t seem to be in any way short of writing talent. Suggest you co-opt Ragged Robin and Maggie with yourself - you might even get Eric to write some of the straight bits (in Latin, of course).

I would suggest that oZzy invents the plot and plays the genie - it`s obvious that he has been cooped up in a lamp for several thousand years and the fumes have gone to his head, so no-one will know whether he`s acting or being his normal self.  Jethro should play Abanaazar, and for Emma Jane`s dilapidated gate you simply MUST cast Tim - not too much moving about for him, but plenty of creaking and groaning.

Can`t see much scope for grassy knolls in Ali Baba, but don`t forget - the magic carpet gets ridden on quite a lot.

[mysticmog]

Orgy?  
Only just noticed the whole Panto thang and feel well miffed that only cast members & producers get to have a rumble.
Maybe interval orgy for audience types would be appropriate, attendance would be quite fern-ominal.

Think Hugh is Ben Elton in disguise....

M xx

[Hyacinth]

Orgy?  


Think Hugh is Ben Elton in disguise....

M xx

you mean a Panto Dame???

Lots of parts for everyone, but EVERYONE, MM...what do you fancy?? .... Or who do you fancy??? Can see that the Mighty Oak's gonna have an awful lot of springs of mistletoe cuddling up to his nooks & crannies  ::) ;D Lishka

[Hyacinth]

...and for Emma Jane`s dilapidated gate you simply MUST cast Tim - not too much moving about for him, but plenty of creaking and groaning...

Aha!! Tim's gonna do a lot of moving about, I think :-/ ...in fact, he, (like Oz), isn't gonna be off Stage at all during the Production?

I'm seeing it going like this...while Oz is centre-stage (or nearly always) in all the Scenes and pretty impressive, Ower Tim is the presence in the background...stage left to right...then right to left...then left to...(getting the picture?)...with a background constant hum...

It's the Elkman, you see, pushing his rotovator to and fro, to and fro, relentlessly

rutting ;D

PS Tim...large bottle of Sanatogen in the post...and for you Youngies, this was the Sovereign Specific  to 'fortify the over forties'...as Tim is twice that age, p'raps I'd better make that two bottles?  ;D ;D ;D - Lish

[Hugh_Jones]

ELKMAN?. It`s a good job I`m not writing one about Ali Baba - I`d no sooner have finished it than she`d be demanding one with bloody elks in it, and maybe caribou and a moose or two (sorry, that`s Eskimo Nell again) and a heroine called `me darlin` Clementine`.  Always the same with these wenches - give `em the earth and they want the bloody moon, and a few stars thrown in as well

[Ragged Robin]

.... Poor Hugh, I've got this jar of lubrication
    Would it help to ease your increasing frustration?.......

[Hugh_Jones]

Surely you don`t think I`m one of THEM!

[Ozzy_aka_Pothead]

(color=InCharacter)Yo peeps

If uz thinks I iz standing on stage all nite long.. then U hazanother thing coming :)  Talk about exploitation... you get a first class tree actor and waddya do?  blinking slave drivers ::)

Cant see any reasion why we cants have elks and witches and robots that have great big Twirley eyes that letz out this dead hot laser beam which hurts quite a lot,,, and maybe we could have su dinosaurs?

big bable alert

oZzY

[Hyacinth]

an' magic mushrooms an' boxing tortoises an' a great big land crab called Sid who gives the baddies nasty nips when they disport themselves on Grassy Nell..

and can we have some jelly tots as well please? there are always 'little people' in magic forests.. :P

[Ozzy_aka_Pothead]

Yo Lish

I Like that :)

and instead of the little ones having a pot of gold... we'll just have the pot :)

Oh and a real rainbow... honstly.. when I wuz dead young.. I made a rainbow with sum water daylight and a mirror.. if I could only remeber how it wuz dun?  could try it wiv the stage lites, whic will be provided by envirolite :)

On a babble

oZzY %)

[Ragged Robin]

....... What are you two on?
..........................and can I have some please?

[Ozzy_aka_Pothead]

Yo robin

Yeah you can have sum.... but..... dont hog it :)

oZzY



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ozzy

[ina]

Bumped to the top per request Lishka.

[Hyacinth]

Thanks, Matey ;)

Right, everyone - there's the script...casting starts NOW ..

but,if the character you really, really want to play isn't here, doesn't matter, does it?  ;DWrite yourself a part in and get cracking on your costume . An if SIX of you, even, want the same part - no probs there either....unless you're thinkin of bein Grassy Nell, that is.. ;)

finally...like I said before, I've never been to a panto..that right that everything's spoken in rhyme? Just checkin..Lish

[ina]

A Dutch cap mushroom
is my role?
So what I pray
must be my goal?

I don't half know
what panto is.
Much less a Dutch cap,
what is this?

I'll take my station
at the door.
Take coats and hats
and much, much more.

[Hugh_Jones]

A dutch cap, Ina, is a somewhat proficient device for protecting the wearer from the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.  As the pantomime is written there may well be quite a number of these flying about - particularly in the Finale - so the part is likely to be a rather a strenuous one.  I don`t think I should bother with the hats and coats if I were you.

[ina]

"........a somewhat proficient device for protecting the wearer from the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune."

Oh, a protective device huh?? Mmmmmmmmmm which part of my body do I need to cover with it? I think I'll stick to the garderobe, seems like a safer place to be, going by what happened to Hamlet and his father. Since I have a lot of trouble understanding all this flowery language and not knowing whether something is good or bad, I better stick with something simple.