Music, magic and enough slapstick to keep you laughing all the way to Christmas can only mean one thing - the panto is back at Newcastle’s Theatre Royal.
This year it’s ten years on for comedy father and son duo Clive Webb and Danny Adams as they take to the stage for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - and it gets better every time.
It was clear from the start it was going to be a performance packed with the trademark special effects starting with a spectacular magic mirror and exploding car through flying sleighs to a giant dinosaur.
The dwarfs were the ingenious work of Mike Coltman whose creativity means the seven characters did everything from tap dancing to riding giant animals across the stage.
And as usual regular Chris Hayward, playing Rita the Cook, had a host of spectacular costumes from a stylish birthday cake to a Sunderland outfit which soon switched to one more appropriate for the home of the Toon Army.
Panto villain Steve Arnott, who is usually dressed in male attire, made a brilliant evil Queen Lucretia who was determined to hang on to the throne at all costs while Michael Potts, Webb’s son and Adams’ brother, was superb as the Idiot.
But, as usual, the real stars of the show were Adams and Webb, playing Oddjob and Muddles, who held the audience in the palm of their hands from start to finish.
In their tenth show, and I've seen all of them, they were the backbone of the performance whether they were singing, performing magic or hurling foam around the stage - even over a particularly young member of the cast.
All in all it was two hours of pure fun making it a magical, memorable night for all, and hardly a surprise that it's the fastest selling show in the country.
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