in the last four days i have done eight shows, gone to six primary schools and sung the sausage song over seventy times. panto has been a fucking blast and i’m honestly really sad it’s over.
the post-show moment when a group of kids ran back in and ran the gauntlet of the cast giving everyone high fives
the little girl who after hearing me jokingly say ‘yeah, we were the best part weren’t we’ to some boys who told us we were their favourites, came up to me and said very seriously ‘it’s about everyone.’
every time a child nearly fell over backwards with shock when i growled at them
the handful of kids in EVERY performance who would either openly cheer the bad guys or at the very least do a thumbs-up when everyone else was doing a thumbs-down
the one kid who literally just shouted in the middle of one of our bad guy scenes ‘I’M ON YOUR SIDE!’
the little girl who when we were gloating about how we would be triumphant just screamed ‘NO. NO. NO.’ directly into my face until she literally turned purple