Hi Josephine My wife and I together with our granddaughter Charlotte went to see Aladdin at The Theatre Royal on Christmas Eve. Charlotte enjoyed it, it was her first pantomime. Regards Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josephine Jeremiah" <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> To: <bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 11:15 PM Subject: [B&S] Childhood visits to pantomimes at The Theatre Royal Bath > January can be a dull month in the U.K. When I was a child, it was > enlivened by a visit to the theatre to see a pantomime. I particularly > remember going to The Theatre Royal in Bath on a number of occasions. > > Looking to see if there is still a pantomime there, in January, I came > upon this site: > > Bristol & Bath Theatre > > http://www.bris.ac.uk/theatrecollection/linkbristoltheatre.html > > > This led me to the main page for The Theatre Royal, Bath > > http://www.theatreroyal.org.uk/ > > which links to an interesting page on > > A Brief History of The Theatre Royal Bath > > http://www.theatreroyal.org.uk/history/ > > -- > Josephine Jeremiah > www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 12:57:59 -0000, Tony Harrison <a.harrison@tesco.net> wrote: > My wife and I together with our granddaughter Charlotte went to see > Aladdin at The Theatre Royal on Christmas Eve. Charlotte enjoyed it, it > was her > first pantomime. I expect you and your wife enjoyed it, too, Tony :-) How nice to go to a real theatre instead of watching a TV production. Your message made me wonder which was my first pantomime. The words 'Chu Chin Chow" came into my head. Ian thought it sounded like a character from Aladdin. Nowadays, the magic lamp is Google, from which I quickly found that 'Chu Chin Chow' is a the name of a production, which is a mixture of musical comedy and pantomime. I knew that I'd seen this production at the Bristol Hippodrome, so looking at this web page Bristol Hippodrome Theatre A–Z of all Productions http://theatricalia.com/place/11/bristol-hippodrome-theatre/productions I found out that 'Chu Chin Chow' was at the Bristol Hippodrome twice in the 1950s, first in 1951-1952 and second in 1959-1960. I'm not absolutely sure which production I saw, but it could have been the earlier one because I would have remembered more if it had been the later one. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com

I wonder if any other listers saw Julian Slades production "Christmas in King Street" at the Theatre Royal Bristol in 1952 - now that was a panto with a difference and hugely enjoyable with its local references.  I was a teenager then and considered myself far too old for traditional pantomimes but this show really hit the spot for me. Janet

There is lots of information about pantomime on this website http://www.its-behind-you.com/ including pictures of a pantomime from the 1930's at The Princes Theatre that used to be  Park Row.  My husband's grandfather Norman Brooks was the conductor of the orchestra.  His name also appears in the theatre collections website that Josephine mentioned.  Norman later worked at the Hippodrome, but I have been unable to track down any references to him there. Norman was a well known band leader in the Bristol area and I have various cuttings from the Evening Post newspaper. He also regularly played on the BBC radio with his orchestra.   He was also leader of the Lockier Grosvenor Sextet, the Berkley Lockier Sextet and the Norman Brooks Berkley Sextet they played at The Berkley in Clifton. Ann ________________________________ snip  Bristol Hippodrome Theatre A–Z  of all Productions http://theatricalia.com/place/11/bristol-hippodrome-theatre/productions I found out that 'Chu Chin Chow' was at the Bristol Hippodrome twice in the 1950s, first in 1951-1952 and second in 1959-1960. I'm not absolutely sure which production I saw, but it could have been the earlier one because I would have remembered more if it had been the later one. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message