We had a uniquely UK experience over the weekend where we went to our first pantomime:

Pantomime (informally, panto), not to be confused with mime, refers to a theatrical genre, traditionally found in Great Britain, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Zimbabwe and Ireland, which is usually performed around the Christmas and New Year holiday season.

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Traditionally performed at Christmas, with family audiences consisting mainly of children and parents, British pantomime is now a popular form of theatre, incorporating song, dance, buffoonery, slapstick, in-jokes, audience participation and mild sexual innuendo.

Our first pantomime was Peter Pan in Woking staring the one and only Henry Winkler – the Fonz himself. The first half was rather traditional with very little audience interaction (Other than booing of Captain Hook). But the second half as a different story, they deviated from the plot in several places and launched into full scale audience interaction including the 12 days of Christmas which ended with the actors grabbing water guns and spraying the crowd. One poor bloke was wearing tan trousers and the ganged up on him, determined to make it look like he wet himself (LOL).

Great fun for the kids.

As an aside: The night before I went on the internet to download a copy of the Peter Pan story to read to the boys (All of our copies are in storage in Canada) and I came across this web site. Wow. A few key facts from this real life Peter Pan: 

• He is in his 50’s
• Refuses to give up
• Has had multiple TV appearances including Conan.
• His site meter is over 10 million!
• Take time to review the fashion page. My favorite is Blue Boy.
• He also runs a ministry.
• He is married. See the wedding photos here.

The world has many different type of people.