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The Christmas Pantomime colour lithograph book cover, 1890, showing harlequinade characters. Pantomime (/ ˈ p æ n t ə ˌ m aɪ m /; [1] informally panto) [2] is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment. It was developed in England and is performed throughout the United Kingdom, Ireland and (to a lesser ...
The earliest known pantomime in the U.S. was Robinson Crusoe produced at St. John's Theatre, New York in 1786. [2] Humpty Dumpty, starring and co-written by George L. Fox, premiered at Olympic Theatre in New York in 1868; it was frequently revived and eventually played for over 1,200 performances, becoming one of the most successful American ...
Silent comics (or pantomime comics) are comics which are delivered in mime. They make use of little or no dialogue , speech balloons or captions written underneath the images. Instead, the stories or gags are told entirely through pictures.
In the early 19th century, the popular comic performer Joseph Grimaldi turned the role of Clown from "a rustic booby into the star of metropolitan pantomime". [8] Two developments in 1800, both involving Grimaldi, greatly changed the pantomime characters: For the pantomime Peter Wilkins: or Harlequin in the Flying World, new costume designs were introduced.
Bozo, the first pantomime-style comic strip, was created by the cartoonist Francis X. Reardon (with the pen name Foxo Reardon, or FoXo Reardon), who penned it beginning from 1921, until his death from cancer in 1955. Bozo is called America's original pantomime comic strip. Bozo ran both as a daily comic strip as well as on Sundays. [1] [2] [3]
Pantomime won the Bisexual Book Award for Speculative Fiction in 2014 at an event organised by the Bi Writers Association to increase awareness of bisexual books. [5] It appeared on reading lists promoted by the American Library Association on their 2014 Rainbow Book List, [6] the 2014 Popular Paperbacks List in the GLBTQ category, [7] and on ...
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ... Pantomime dames (1 C, 47 P) Pages in category "Pantomime" The following 67 pages are in this ...
A pantomime dame is a traditional role in British pantomime. It is part of the theatrical tradition of travesti portrayal of female characters by male actors in drag . Dame characters are often played either in an extremely camp style, or else by men acting butch in women's clothing.