Two 7pm shows in two days is NOT how I planned it, but it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that adblock was preventing me from seeing this year's show information on the Pantomonium website, and by the time I requested tickets this was the only day I could get that we could all be certain to attend.
It's quite a hike to the Hudson Guild Theater from the train station, especially in the cold and the dark! But it's worth it, that show was just as fun this year as it was last year. Ana professed a too-cool-for-school attitude about the whole thing, but as soon as she thought we weren't looking she was literally staring at the stage in wide-eyed, open mouthed wonder, and quite eager to grab a seat closer to the stage after intermission. She managed to get a special trip backstage (how she contrived this, I do not know), cheered wildly when voluntold-Jenn went on stage, and she even eagerly reached forward to high five Cow's Front Half at the end. (Their funny two person animal is really two characters.)
Of course, once we left she proclaimed it was all "too babyish" and declined to take a picture with the cast, but she cannot fool us. I really wish she'd grow up already out of this stage, but I know it's really very common among adolescents and children in general, so I try to be patient.
It's quite a hike to the Hudson Guild Theater from the train station, especially in the cold and the dark! But it's worth it, that show was just as fun this year as it was last year. Ana professed a too-cool-for-school attitude about the whole thing, but as soon as she thought we weren't looking she was literally staring at the stage in wide-eyed, open mouthed wonder, and quite eager to grab a seat closer to the stage after intermission. She managed to get a special trip backstage (how she contrived this, I do not know), cheered wildly when voluntold-Jenn went on stage, and she even eagerly reached forward to high five Cow's Front Half at the end. (Their funny two person animal is really two characters.)
Of course, once we left she proclaimed it was all "too babyish" and declined to take a picture with the cast, but she cannot fool us. I really wish she'd grow up already out of this stage, but I know it's really very common among adolescents and children in general, so I try to be patient.
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Date: 2014-12-23 01:54 am (UTC)I'm in my work's panto this year, which is rather terrifying. There's a risk we'll have more performances than we've had rehearsals...
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Date: 2014-12-23 05:21 am (UTC)http://www.pantomonium.org/about.html