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Pages in category "Pantomime" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Character Type: Description: Examples: Pantomime dame: A pantomime portrayal of female characters by male actors in drag. Widow Twankey, Mary Sunshine: Paul Lynde-type: An easily irritated villain with a distinctive, whiny and slightly effeminate voice.
Peter Pan is a free spirited and adventurous young boy who would not grow up. He can fly, and lives on the island called Neverland.He is described as "a lovely boy, clad in skeleton leaves and the juices that ooze out of trees". [2]
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.
Pages in category "Pantomime dames" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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 ...
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.