Third Annual Panto Meet-up

[kaliha]

So, Saturday was our now-traditional Panto Meet-up. And I think a lot of lovely fun was had by all. It was ace meeting both friends you only get to see at the meet-up plus lots of lovely new people. Hello to flipbfc, nightbeast, joulez217 (and also happy birthday to you), atraphoenix, conjunkie,tiggerbrasilf,lixa_turner, sal101010, doylefan22, kharma2815, steviesun, amanduriel, badfalcon, shariaiah and Mel)


We even has a Jack!bear, two Ianto!bears, a small plastic Jack, Rose and Ninth Doctor and a Tenth Doctor (*waves to nightbeast*)

It wasn't without it's trauma's through, with people getting lost and car tyres blowing up in one of the Queensway tunnels o_0

Because good fangirls we all met up beforhand in the pub. (I was very good and was on the hot chocolates all night)

Thanks to a well-placed merchandising/tat stall we felt the compulsion to buy some flashing bunny ears, just because. :) I think I look rather good in them and will be wearing them to work after Christmas. Yup yup yup. And I think ours look better than John's do in my icon. Cos ours flashed.


We made a stylish bunch!




Even Jack!bear wanted a go


Ianto!bear was a bit scared by the 3-D

A couple of stand out points from the show (without spoiling you too much)
[x] It's nice to see that Dalek Sec is still getting lots of work. It's a bit sad that the Daleks have to resort to panto to earn enough to take over the world. You wouldn't see the Cybermen doing that.
[x] I feel I should stand up for Sutton Coldfield - it's not so rough that a cart of washing would get nicked. It's not like Newtown or Aston :p
[x] John Barrowman going "Dudloi"
[x] The Grumbleweeds were a surprising amount of fun. Although one of them has much better legs than I have! Which is quite depressing.
[x] One of the little kids who came up on stage was called Jack. Much to John's pleasure.
[x] The people sat in front of us were tryin to duck out of the way of the 3-D effects, much to mine and doylefan22's amusement.
[x] All the 3-D stuff was very good. Especially the magic carpet ride.
[x] There was a spot of singalongaHairspray.
[x] There were loads of Who and Torchwood (and a Touchwood) comments scattered throughout the show, just in case you'd forgotten what John's best known for at the moment.
[x] Masashi Fujimoto (the bloke from Banzai who wasn't Burt Kwok or Shakey Hand Man) was ace. (And also tiny!)
[x] The little stage school kids were very, very cute.
[x] The white costume John was sporting was, erm, very revealing.

It was obvious John was really enjoying himself. Which pleases me, because I've been going to Hippodrome pantos since I was very, very ickle and hold them in very, very high regard (and I got to meet Danny La Rue one year - yes I was one of the tiny people who go up on stage - I'd have been able to summarise the story so far a bit better than the slightly starstuck kids who found themselves standing with Captain Jack!)
After the show, still with our seizure-inducing bunny ears on, like a well-behaved hen party we headed off round the corner to the stage door. Which was surprisingly quiet. Well quiet compared to Cardiff last year but much busier than Wimbledon the year before that.





John (as always) had loads of time for everyone (even though he wanted to get off to go to the pictures. Did you enjoy your film? - I hope you didn't go to the Odeon on New Street). I think he was also quite taken with Jack!bear - he certainly recoginised who the bear was supposed to be. Then again, they do both share the same coloured fur (or something).

To save him hanging around (and because there were loads of us) we had a big old group shot (which doylefan22 got a good shot of as well as sal101010's partner and weirdly, a group of random people who weren't part of our group, were you LJ people?) and off he dashed into the night to grab his (very, very posh 4x4) and dash off into the night (and hopefully not miss the start of his film).


Us and some random bloke
(Photo by doylefan22)

We headed back to the pub. Because we're a bunch of lushes.

And then much later on back to home and to bed.


Be seeing most of you next summer then. Bring your pick-er-nick baskets.

Comments

[doylefan22.livejournal.com]

Well I didn't take the photo since I'm in it and not that quick - so credit goes to my camera and sal101010's partner (Andrew? Adam? - Being a teacher I don't do names).

I believe John's 4x4 was Mercedes M Class (and I won't admit to remembering the numberplate as that is stalkerish to the nth degree and he probably doesn't want it broadcast).

I'm thinking he went to see either I Am Legend (Will Smith nekkid torso eye candy for a start) or Enchanted so he could shake his fist and go 'damn you James Marsden for being a younger me!'.

(Oh a cheers for posting the photo where it looks like my face kind of overheated and melted :D ;) )

[lixa-turner.livejournal.com]

Touchwood fitted in with the snarky Solihull references - it's the name of a shopping centre here and a source of much amusement every time I visit it xD

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

Me too. I still laugh when people get the name of Torchwood wrong and call it Touchwood. Although I wouldn't be surprised if there are strange goings-on in Touchwood.

[steviesun.livejournal.com]

If I talk about Torchwood at work they don't have a clue what I'm talking about, if I call it touchwood, they know exactly.

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Wish I could've been there and got some fluffy bunny ears

[sanda56.livejournal.com]

Looks like you had a brilliant time - as usual! I noticed the white outfit too, pervy old lady that I am. :P

Er, so just where was the stage door? Totally academic now, of course.

[kharma2815.livejournal.com]

Yay for flashing bunny ears!

[flipbfc.livejournal.com]

can you believe my b/f doesn't like the flashing bunny ears, what on earth's the matter with him???

Thank you for your toptastic organising and tour guiding

[nightbeast.livejournal.com]

Great report. Thanks for organising it. How long did you hang around the stage door for? Only I managed to be there (after finding another cosplayer in the foyer!), but sadly didn't recognise anyone from our meet up. When I looked at my watch at the bus stop it was 10.14pm, and John was still doing photos when I left the stage door.

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

Yay for panto meet-ups! It sounds like such a fun evening, and it's great that you all had a wonderful time. I hope the Christmas holidays in general gave you some opportunities to recover from all your work-related stress.

When I came back from my father's, I found your Christmas present waiting in the mail for me, and I wanted to thank you a whole lot for it. It's very sweet of you to choose a book that has got so much personal significance for you -- and I have never even read "Watership Down", so it's more or less new for me. (I did see the animated movie as a kid, though.) I'm sure it'll be a welcome relief after my uni reading lists, and I'm already looking forward to it. So, thanks again!

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

It's a bit less harrowing than the film but I still cry my eyes out reading it. I am such a wuss :)

[chicklet73.livejournal.com]

Yay! Glad to hear you had a good time - and I love the bunny ears!

Now what will we be wearing for Hamlet?

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

Sadly I don't think the RSC will sell flashing bunny ears so I think we need to get hold of some big ruffs. we'll look stylin'!!

[chicklet73.livejournal.com]

I am 100% ON BOARD with the ruffs!

*prepares to be made of style*

[meivocis.livejournal.com]

Although we've never met I recognise so many peeps in your photos! Mostly from other events... I spot a few Wolf staff members in the bunch and, of course, the lovely Jacqui, otherwise known as commonro.

Glad you had fun... I'm quite tempted to pop in and say hi to the Barrowman sometime this week. *ponders*

[thinkzinc.livejournal.com]

Awww, John is always so lovely! :-)
The panto sounds excellent!
Happy new year!