Why do pantomimes run from the week before Christmas until the middle of January? I've never understood this, the magic is long gone and we're all back to school and work by the time the panto season ends.
Wouldn't it be better to start a couple of weeks earlier and finish a week into the New Year?
Anyway, suffice it to say that we had managed to book tickets to take a group of children and young people in January. It featured some bloke off the telly better known for "E" than being Smee. By now the Christmas magic was over but we hoped that the panto would put a bit of va va voom into an otherwise dismal month? It certainly did.
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