Here's a recipe as essential to Christmas in Britain as turkey, tinsel and mince pies. Mix a fairy-tale plot with topical references, slapstick, song, dance and double entendres. Throw in sequins and spangles, mix vigorously, add some noisy audience participation, and you have a panto.
Pantos—short for pantomimes—are stage musicals that play at theatres big and small across the UK each winter. Formulaic but anarchic, family friendly but a little risqué, they are a holiday tradition that give many children their first exposure to live theatre—and adults a chance to cut loose.
Audiences happily shed their inhibitions—cheering, singing, hissing the villain, shouting "He's behind you!" to warn the hero.
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