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Article: THEATRE
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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There are no pantomimes in the West End this Christmas. At the
Palladium, where once you might have thrilled to the antics of
Norman Wisdom or Cilla Black's thigh-slapping jollity, Joseph and
the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat has taken up more or less
permanent residence - a year-round panto, in effect. The rest of
Theatreland has one eye permanently on the tourist trade, and
tourists never go to pantos because they haven't the faintest idea
what's going on.
So is pantomime in terminal decline? What's that, boys and
girls? You'll have to shout louder than that.
Stepping outside central London, the signs don't, at first, look
good. Jack and the Beanstalk at Wimbledon Theatre, which claims to ...