Hi all, hope I'm not upsetting anyone, after all tis the season of goodwill. However, I was asking about the colonies putting on pantomimes, clear from the response that Canada. Australia and New Zealand seem to have something like it, but not the USA. Now, such a strange coincidence on the box last night. Talking of pantomime and I thought I would share it with you, as people have said, its not just about names. Pantos were first performed in ancient Rome and wasn't really the same as today. However in 1717 the first pantomime, as we know it today was performed and hasn't changed an awful lot since then, only the jokes I presume. And this is the strange thing. In the Uk at the moment we have 1. Henry Winkler (The Fonz from Happy days) doing his first panto and loving it. 2. Michael Paul Glazier (Starsky and Hutch fame) enjoying his stint. 3. Now you won't believe this, MICKEY ROONEY at the young age of 87, repeat 87, his doing pantomime, two shows a week at that. Now if the messages isn't getting across the pond with that line up, it never will, so look out the Yanks, the British are coming, again. regards John Hume BAKER-PROSSER - LONDON BEAL - 1883 - SHEFFIELD BOIK - 1823 - SOUTH AFRICA/SCOTLAND BROGDEN - 1800 - COLLINGHAM YORK BROOKS - 1853 - ROTHERHAM BUCKLAND - 1880 - NOTTINGHAM CATER - 1929 - SHEFFIELD CLARK - 1825 - HULL/INKBERROW CRAWSHAW - 1886 - SHEFFIELD GIGG - LONDON HARRISON - NOTTINGHAM (SNEINTON) WILSTROP - YORK ALWAYS LOOKING FOR HUME, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME