Rehearsing ...

After sorting out the table for the mad hatter scene, we carried on to the final scene


-The White and Red Queens and their friends sit at the table, all of the evil characters sit on the right side (from the audiences point of view, this was done to relate back to the theater convention of having the goodies and the babies on certain sides of the stage) of the table, and all of the good characters sit on the left, all squashed in, and then the queens are sat on their thrones at either end, the Hatter is sat in the center, on a toadstool prop.


The Hatter begins talking in rhyme and everyone else at the table rhyme's too. There is a comic element from The Red Queen with her line of "I won't rhyme not one bit, I find all this rhyming to be quite sh..." at the the characters gasp as  everyone know which word he is about to say. The Hatter explains that he stole the lost pages for himself to stop the fighting in wonderland and says that the pages will go to the most deserving which inadvertently starts a fight, as the Red Queen thinks the most deserving means the strongest, or the one who wins a fight.


"A fight scene commences between the two queens, and The Red Queen distracts The White Queen and then pushes her to the ground, she then snatches the remaining pages from The White Queen and The Hatter, and shows off about having them. As she gloats the good characters use Fairy Gee's want to pop one of The Red Queens balloon boobs, distracting her, whilst the good characters free Alice and capture Hook, Smee and Evil Stepmother. While they do that, Tweedle Dee takes the remaining pages and hands them to Dum as a peace offering, he accepts and gives them to Alice, who in turn, gives them to the Hatter, back to the original owner. The Cheshire Cat sneaks away as The Red Queen is captured and chained up by Rapunzel and Little Red Riding Hood, and then everyone notices that The Cheshire Cat is missing, he is seen sneaking offstage but is caught by Prince Charming and given the 'Cone of Shame' a pet cone to stop animals from biting wounds, but also greatly humiliating, he is grabbed by the scruff of his neck and with The Red Queen is lead off to her own dungeon."


-Each of the characters are sent back to their books, evil characters are banished from Wonderland, never to return, and the good characters return to their books, but not before a song. The song 'We Go Together' from Grease plays, and this is when the characters go off and everybody takes their bows.


This scene has been very clearly structured now, and is almost perfect, the only thing it lacks is slickness and smoothness, and that is simply due to amount of rehearsal time. When we first did the finale bows the whole group enjoyed it and it was amazing it's just a shame that the same energy is not present in the rest of the panto.


We are roughly 6 weeks away from performance currently, and i believe with hard work, this pantomime is going to be a massive success. 


All scenes are now blocked and staged and ready, all that is left is to rehearse until perfect.