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Hot One: Catherine Tate will play the Fairy Godmother in the London Palladium panto Sleeping Beauty this year, per Big Bad Baz.
🌶️ Another One: Jason Priestley and Cindy Sampson are reprising their roles in Private Eyes in a spin-off comedy-crime series set on the other side of Canada.
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 21 Mar. 2025
Some 75,000 members of the public are on the waiting list for this year’s panto info — quite a few U.S. citizens are on it, as well.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2025
Theater historian Walter James MacQueen-Pope, whose name alone weaves a pattern in Harris tweed, recalls being a kid and having the ultimate seasonal threat dangled overhead: behave, or no panto for you.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 18 Dec. 2024
In person, there’s a touch of Wilde to his wittiness and panto to his personality.
—Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2024
Other teams did their own analyses, and things went back and forth with a panto-like tempo.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2011
The book by David West Read then adds a dose of tipsy British panto, puts the frothy milkshake in a hipster blender, and mixes the whole deconstructionist shebang to music made famous by the likes of Ellie Goulding, Katy Perry and Ariana Grande.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 17 Nov. 2022
The populist panto villain knows that in the short run a government or a central bank can do little about inflation (especially if it is only caused by extraneous issues).
—Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
Pantomime theater — panto for short — is one of Britain’s great festive traditions, up there with mince pies and the queen’s speech.
—Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2020
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 21 Mar. 2025
Some 75,000 members of the public are on the waiting list for this year’s panto info — quite a few U.S. citizens are on it, as well.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2025
Theater historian Walter James MacQueen-Pope, whose name alone weaves a pattern in Harris tweed, recalls being a kid and having the ultimate seasonal threat dangled overhead: behave, or no panto for you.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 18 Dec. 2024
In person, there’s a touch of Wilde to his wittiness and panto to his personality.
—Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2024
Other teams did their own analyses, and things went back and forth with a panto-like tempo.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2011
The book by David West Read then adds a dose of tipsy British panto, puts the frothy milkshake in a hipster blender, and mixes the whole deconstructionist shebang to music made famous by the likes of Ellie Goulding, Katy Perry and Ariana Grande.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 17 Nov. 2022
The populist panto villain knows that in the short run a government or a central bank can do little about inflation (especially if it is only caused by extraneous issues).
—Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
Pantomime theater — panto for short — is one of Britain’s great festive traditions, up there with mince pies and the queen’s speech.
—Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2020
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“Panto.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/panto. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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