The Gransnet Panto

Please let me be Tinkerbell - I've always wanted to learn to fly.

Oh dear! I don't know about elastic - I think we may be needing some surgical corsets before the day is out! If you do decide to slide your leg up the wall when you're practising, put something soft on the floor for when you collapse in a heap!

It may help when you do the leg past the ear lift, if you practise sliding it up the wall first. Sort of like Leslie Caron in An American in Paris.

Phoenix It is Prince Charming assisted by ?Dandini? It always seemed that ?Dandini? was more Prince Charming's type than Cinderella.

Oh, thank you, Carol. Got about six yards?

You sound like Mrs Robinson, got everything to hand whatever it is!
Saved my bacon, anyway. Or my red face..
....I need to get on.

I think you are phoenix

ok, but who is principal boy in Cinderella?

If you need to "borrow" and i do mean "borrow" as I must have him back my inflatable friend..then you ar more than welcome..he loves! dressing up! but I expect him back all in one piece! no puncture marks where he has been prodded with magic wands..etc...he is in the suitcase under my bed at the mo! ready to rock n roll.

....I'm just going through my dressings and bandages drawer...sure I've got some elastic in here oxon....ah, yes, here it is. There's a crepe bandage, that'll come in handy for someone's knee. Deep Heat? I'll leave that out just in case.

I was reading your post Oxon70 just after Mamie told you you could stop practising. I had a chuckle imaging you dancing for eight hours waiting for someone to give you permission.

Sounds like Phoenix for Principal Boy then - Prince Charming! (Won't ask why/where you acquired the boots).

..........anybody got any elastic?

Lift right foot, extend leg past ear, still holding foot and turn three times on spot Tada tada tada tada
Repeat with right leg Tada tada tada tada....and again

Oh dear.

Once when I was a young science teacher i worked in a boys comp. I had a lovely time doing the makeup making all those 16 year old boys look like gorgeous girls! I had not thought about that for years. But if you need someone to do the makeup I think I could rise to the challenge.

Phoenix a bit of thigh slapping, that's the stuff!

Yes you can stop Oxon70. That is excellent. How are the splits and the leg past the ear?

Errm, I am actually currently a size 10/12.
I have long over the knee boots. I am happy to do a bit of thigh slapping, even my own.

My DH loves my singing. (he is currently trying to persuade me to sing "The Rose" at our Racing Club Christmas get together tomorrow) Can I have a part?

Oooh yes, I'll go and practice now, thanks elegran

yogagran Try greaseproof paper.

Re-ee-peat fo -ur times on ei-ther side
Re-ee-peat fo -ur times on ei-ther side
Re-ee-peat fo -ur times on ei-ther side
Re-ee-peat fo -ur times on ei-ther side...can I stop practising now?

I can play the spoons. I used to be able to get a sound out of a comb with a piece of Izal toilet paper wrapped round it but now everything is soft and gentle - no more playing the comb

Many, many years ago I used to do percussion and timpani in the Saturday Morning Youth Orchestra?

I don't actually own any percussion instruments, and, lets face it a full set of timpani takes up a heck off a lot of space, but I do have a full set of saucepans and a couple of spatulas?

I volunteer in the local theatre wardrobe so can provide most outfits -

Feather boas in brilliant hues
Thigh-high boots and sparkling shoes
A showgirl headdress, a fairy frock
Come to the wardrobe door and knock.
No problem, girls with shape or size
Because before your very eyes
I know the spell, I do I think!
To 8's and 10's we all will shrink!!!

Are there musicians out there? I can't recall anyone saying they would play the piano or drums. How will the audience know when to start booing just as the Ugly Sisters are about to appear?

Have I got a part yet?