It's been a busy and hectic year here, with 11 different plays put in front of audiences in the past 12 months.
No actual Christmas music this year, but a piece from our Christmas "panto" production.
Panto, if you don't know, is a two-hundred year old English theatre tradition of holiday entertainment for children. It includes men dressed as women (the "Dames"), women dressed as men (the "Principle Boy"), fairies, magic, LOTS of broad comedy and music.
This was the first one we've undertaken and our
Cinderella turned into one of our biggest sellers in a long time.
Here's the song we used as our closer -- performed
after the curtain call.
If I Were Not In Pantomime is a traditional theatre song that comes in many different guises, with thousands of verses (most of them
not family oriented
). Ours is family-friendly, however. It starts off pretty tamely and gets crazier and crazier as it goes.
Here's the .not file for our version and also
HERE's a video of it in performance. Just listening to the .not file won't give you any idea of the song, so watch the video too.
Merry Christmas to all.
David