Since when did Snow White sing Footloose?
I took Daisy to her first panto on Saturday. It was the Spiller’s Pantomimes production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at the Epsom Playhouse.
Pantos are a Christmas tradition here in the UK and perform the valuable public service of employing out of work soap stars. Our Snow White, for example was Carly Hillman. According to the program notes she played Nicki di Marco in Eastenders. She was written out in 2000 following the ‘tutor assault’ storyline and has spent the corresponding seven years performing in Dick Whittington, Aladdin and the Wizard of Oz.
Daisy is a big fan of Snow White. She got a Snow White dress for Christmas and insisted on wearing it to the performance. And she knows the story backwards. (Well, the Disney version of the story). So when the show started with Snow White and six unexplained girls in tutus singing ‘Footloose’ she was a little perplexed.
I was too. Especially when we returned from intermission to be treated to the spectacle of glow-in-the -dark skeletons dancing to ‘Ghostbusters’ in the dwarves’ mine. Or why the show ended with the entire cast singing a song from High School Musical. (The only reason I know that it was a song from High School Musical is because someone sitting behind me said ‘Oh, that’s a song from High School Musical.’ In case you’re wondering.)
Still, we got to yell out ‘He’s behind you!’ a number of times when an unexplained monster popped up and started hassling the unexplained Court Jester. And there were a couple of unexpected laughs when the henchman forgot their names and their lines.
Daisy seemed to enjoy herself too. She liked Snow White and the dwarves. She didn’t like the wicked queen. She got a whole tub of ice-cream to herself. And when we got home she asked me to play ‘Footloose’ for her.
Sadly, I’ve got to admit, I had it. So I could.
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January 8th, 2008 at 7:22 am
Pantomimes are a little mental. They don’t really follow logically. Apparently if you start Pink Floyd’s The Wall just as the widow comes on stage it matches perfectly.
We didn’t do the panto this year, instead I managed to get my 4 and three quarter year old daughter from her mother and go to EuroDisney for a few days. She is a half irish, half Aussie cockney. The cockney part came out at Disney, chatting and dancing around high on sugar and fries, much more animated and friendly to strangers than usual.
But I seemed to have strayed from my intended point…oh yeah, f*cking hell, you have instant access to Footloose, I suppose you will blame Sally for that one.
January 8th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Hey Uncle Hunty,
I was surprised I had Footloose too. I suspect I may have downloaded it for a ’80′s themed party sometime. It was the only song I downloaded from The Essential Kenny Loggins which is something, I guess.
January 9th, 2008 at 6:56 am
There’s an ‘essential’ Kenny Loggins? Hell meets handbasket.
I’m old enough to have seen Footloose when it first came out at the cinema (Morwell Twin in country Victoria). If you ever blog about 80′s fashion/music atrocities I will be impossible to shut up. I will say nothing more than I bought this single;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kzSti9Sk64
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