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	The Origin Of Pantomime Stories - from Limelight Scripts
		English Pantomimes usually contain stock characters such as the principal boy, (generally played by a young girl with shapely legs) the heroine (also played by a young girl) And a dame (almost always played by a man) who is an exaggeration of a lewd middle-aged lady.
		Pantomime, or ‘panto’ as it is affectionately called in Britain, contains four strands of humour: visual, topical, corny and the downright rude.
		In pantomime terms, Robin Hood is more traditionally found in the story of Babes In The Wood According to tradition and folklore the tale of the Babes In The Wood is said to be based on two Norfolk children whose cruel uncle decided to do away with them.
	www.limelightscripts.co.uk /scripts/originsofstories.htm (1196 words)

	Button (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Button: a metal implement used to fasten a guitar strap to a guitar's body.
		Button (poker), a marker indicating which player is the dealer for the current hand
		The Button, a Claes Oldenburg sculpture at the University of Pennsylvania
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Button_(disambiguation) (197 words)

	Pantomime (theatre) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Colley Cibber and his colleagues competed with Rich and produced their own pantomimes, and pantomime was a substantial (if decried) subgenre in Augustan drama.
		The pantomime horse or cow, played by two actors in a single costume, one as the head and front legs, the other as the body and back legs.
		Pantomimes in Australia at Christmas have also always been very popular, and professional productions often feature celebrities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pantomime_(theatre) (912 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - This Is Local London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Pantomime is regarded as a British entertainment that takes place in theatres across the United Kingdom during the Christmas season and has done its best to entertain children for generations.
		The male pantomime dame and the female principal boy have traditionally appeared in pantomime.
		The character of Buttons emerges from page boys, who were nicknamed Buttons because of the close-sewn rows of buttons on their uniforms.
	www.thisislocallondon.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=32234 (413 words)

	PJ Online \| Onlooker (Little Cinders / Words and actions / Falling elderly)
		Pantomime is the inevitable sequel to the excitement of the Christmas festivities, It remains a firm favourite with children and those who ought to have grown up.
		The pantomime differs from most others in not having an animal such as a cat, a cow or a wolf as a principal character.
		The haughty sisters, characterised in the pantomime as the Ugly Sisters, tyrannise their young sister, and are eventually defeated only through the intervention of a fairy godmother, assisted to a great extent by the comic and acrobatic Buttons.
	www.pharmj.com /Editorial/20030208/comment/onlooker.html (1144 words)

	Piccolo Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		he old English pantomime was modeled with certain modifications upon the masque of the Elizabethan and the Stuart days, which by its gorgeous scenery and mechanical effects anticipated the spectacular displays of a later date..
		In a Pantomime the last lines said in the finale, traditionally in rhyming couplets should never be spoken in rehearsal, but for the first time on the opening night.
		Pantomime traditions are as old as pantomime, and indeed some of the 'Chestnuts' written into scripts can be hundreds of years old.
	www.piccolotheatre.com /Info/Pantomime.htm (1136 words)

	Collector Cafe - Register
		You find a lovely button, and the picture appears to be that of two young people frolicking on the rim of the crescent moon.
		You find another lovely button with what appears to be the same character -- this time he’s sneaking past the moon, and still another where he is strumming a guitar.
		Most of the buttons were made in the 1800s, but the art form they depict is centuries old.
	www.collectorcafe.com /article_archive.asp?article=110&id=1726 (1244 words)

	pantomime articles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		pantomime PANTOMIME [pantomime] or mime [Grall in mimic], silent form of the drama in which the story is developed by movement, gesture, facial expression, and stage properties.
		He became famous for his introduction of the pantomime character Pierrot at the Théâtre des Funambules.
		A buffoon, he wore a loose white tunic with big buttons, balloon sleeves, and white pantaloons.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/09801.html (418 words)

	The British Theatre Guide: A Very British Theatrical Form
		Buttons will pine with unrequited love, and theatre managers will be in seventh heaven with the best houses of the year.
		But even in pantomime nothing is perfect (not until the end, at any rate), and she warns Cinders that the spell will only last till midnight.
		Pantomimes are all the same, and yet each is different.
	www.britishtheatreguide.info /articles/051299.htm (1378 words)

	Pantomime scripts read complete panto scripts, written for amatuer village pantomimes
		Pantomimes are primarily for children but also should be entertaining for adults.
		The pantomime goodie will often be a woman dressed as a young man (a principal boy) who should have nice legs displayed.
		pantomime horse, cow, wicked sisters, lords, ladies, dukes or litterally anything thrown in to make up the 'story' which must have a happy ending, and good must triumph over evil.
	www.doddington-kent.org.uk /Panto/Pantomime_Scripts_For_Sale.htm (755 words)

	This month can make or break a theatre ... Pantomime is a serious business - [Sunday Herald]
		Or, as Gerard Kelly, Buttons at The King’s, puts it: “Suddenly these buggers who have been looking doon their noses at us for years are all at it.
		This is one of the fronts on which the battle for the soul of pantomime is being fought.
		First Family are producing eight pantomimes this year, and intend to stage six more in 2006; their ambition is to overtake Qdos as the dominant force in panto.
	www.sundayherald.com /53153 (2928 words)

	Cinderella Bib. - Pantomime
		Serious pantomimes were once as frequent as comic; and it is recorded that they were occasionally found so pathetic that both actors and audiences were equally affected.
		She turns her back on Buttons and is united in a kind of deathlike way (forever after) "with an ideal combined mother-father figure, the dashing Principal Boy with the long cane and the magnificent bosom" (p.
		Cinderella: A Pantomime: An accurate description of the grand allegorical pantomimic spectacle of Cinderella, as performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; to which is added, A critique on the performance and performers by a lover of the drama, together with the story of Cinderella, London: J. Fairburn, 1804.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/cinder/cin8.htm (18790 words)

	Scotland >> Performers >> Pantomime
		Pantomime or "panto" is a uniquely British form of entertainment.
		It uses a limited number of well-known fairy tales, such as Cinderella, Aladdin, Snow White, and Jack and the Beanstalk; some stock characters, such as Buttons, the Evil Stepmother, the Ugly Sisters, the Dame (usually played by a man), and the Principal Boy (frequently played by a woman); and many favorite catch phrases.
		Panto is virtually unknown to American audiences, and we will feature the Scottish version of this distinctive folk theater via Festival workshops and discussions.
	www.folklife.si.edu /resources/Festival2003/scot_panto.htm (448 words)

	GlobeInterview
		Oh yes it is! And to prove it, a glittering magical, fairytale family production of the classic pantomime Cinderella comes to the Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, for a three week run from December 21 to January 13.
		Written by David Lee, this is a version of the classic rags-to-riches tale of a floor-sweeping sister, who is bullied by her ugly sisters, loses her glass slipper but ends up marrying her Prince Charming and lives happily ever after.
		This is his 14th pantomime, but his fifth appearance as buttons.
	www.dreamwater.org /jmorrispanto/GlobeInterview.htm (320 words)

	Brian on Stage
		The character of 'Buttons' first appeared in the Pantomime 'Cinderella' around 1850 but the part could have been written for Brian Conley.
		He brings just the right amount of pathos to the role whilst still maintaining a cheeky Jack-the-Lad feel which is so important to make him 'real'.
		Pantomime is still one of his favourite performance mediums.
	www.brianconley.com /Stage/stage.html (522 words)

	Cinderella, the 2001 M.A.D. Pantomime by Vanessa K Breach
		Buttons arrives and meets Dandini who gives him a ticket for the ball.
		Buttons explains that he is page to Baron Breadline of Pennyless Manor and that he's in love with Cinderella, the Baron's daughter.
		Cinderella tells Buttons that she hasn't got a ticket for the Ball because her step-mother told the messenger she only had two daughters.
	www.users.zetnet.co.uk /mad_pantomime/2001/2001.htm (791 words)

	Bucks Free Press
		But at the moment all his attention is fully focused on the role of Buttons in Cinderella at Croydon's Fairfield Halls that also stars Carly Hillman in the title role.
		This pantomime is one that has really pushed the right buttons, pardon the pun, for Stephen as one of the executive co-producers is Richard Cadell who was Sooty's right hand man in the late 90s and the emphasis is on magic and illusion.
		Buttons is a very busy boy, so it's just as well Cinderella falls in love with the prince!
	www.bucksfreepress.co.uk /display.var.668387.0.0.php (595 words)

	GMCC Software - Pantomime
		Pantomime uses a series of custom editors to streamline access and control of different aspects of the characters by presenting buttons that can not only select, but also manipulate single or groups of controls that are most commonly used for posing and animating.
		Pantomime gives you everything you need to pose your characters without needing to switch views or zoom into to those hard to reach areas of your scene.
		Pantomime speeds up your most time consuming tasks, and make animating your characters and giving them professional looking body and facial expressions easy, fun and completely interactive.
	www.gmccsoft.com /pantomime.htm (537 words)

	Button Bytes Light - Articles
		ou find a lovely button, and the picture appears to be that of two young people frolicking on the rim of the crescent moon.
		Sarah, the seventh child of the Duke of Richmond, was considered a particular beauty, and for a time, she captured the eye of His Royal Highness, King George III.
		George III, an avid button maker, went a bit mad after losing the colonies, and occasionally talked and behaved as though he had married not the toothy Charlotte, but pretty Sarah.
	www.tias.com /articles/buttons/archives/98_08_23/articles.html (1891 words)

	Esmerel: Grannus Goes to See Cinderella (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This is the fourth year that Grannus has attended the Ross Petty pantomime, which is held in the historic Elgin Theatre in Toronto, Canada.
		Cinderella confided all her misery to her best friend, Buttons, who sympathized but could do nothing to help her.
		Although Cinderella and Charming ended up together, Buttons was alone at the end of the play.
	www.esmerel.com /circle/cinder.html (708 words)

	[No title]
		Buttons: Listen, sweaty, salty beef curtains may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'll never know because I wouldn't put my face near any part of the body directly connected to human waste disposal.
		Buttons: What, you mean the big 'bad' wolf might not have been bad bad.
		Buttons: All the chocolates are on the bottom of the lid so you know exactly 'what you are gonna get'.
	website.lineone.net /~mannafanna/panto05.txt (8434 words)

	Cinderella - The Pantomime
		The character of Buttons emerges from page boys, who were nicknamed 'Buttons' from the close-sewn rows of buttons on their uniforms.
		In 1958 the Rogers and Hammerstein 'Cinderella' was staged at the London Coliseum as a pantomime with Yana as Cinderella, Tommy Steele as Buttons, Jimmy Edwards as the Baron, and Kenneth Williams and Ted Durante as the Ugly Sisters.
		The popularity of Cinderella in the new millennium is also reinforced by the symbol of the clock as it strikes midnight in the most magical of pantomimes.
	www.its-behind-you.com /cinders.html (394 words)

	Pantomime Scripts: Panto Scripts: Welcome to Pantos Direct - Custom-built Pantomime Scripts
		The pantomime Principal Boy - traditionally a girl, particularly if her legs look good in tights, though more and more professional pantomimes are opting for male Principal Boys.
		And if the pantomime Dame isn’t comedy enough, there is usually a pair of idiots, the Broker’s Men, the Chinese Police, the Sheriff’s Henchmen, depending on which pantomime you choose, to add to the confusion and laughter!
		And Pantomime just wouldn’t be Pantomime without good catchy tunes, particularly when sung from the song sheet by the pantomime audience.
	www.pantosdirect.co.uk (335 words)

	Theatre Royal Plymouth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Brian who will play Buttons in the spectacular panto was also joined at the launch by The Ugly Sisters, veteran dames, Nigel Ellacott and Peter Robbins, who were already practising their booing and hissing in true panto baddie style.
		Now one of the most popular pantomimes, it tells a story of the motherless Cinderella who has to do all the hard work in the kitchen while her ugly stepsisters make her life miserable.
		All will be revealed in the greatest pantomime of them all...
	www.theatreroyal.com /newsdetail.php?id=102 (473 words)

	Cinderella Pantomime Script (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Buttons I’ve been discovered – Your father spotted me having a kick about in the yard last week and he reckons I’ve got some talent.
		Buttons your friendship means everything to me, and I shall miss you so much.
		Godmother Buttons has had a spell put on him to keep an eye on you, but like any spell it had an antidote, and in this case, don’t ask me why, the antidote was a pair of expensive football boots.
	www.jjcdixon.btinternet.co.uk /cinderella.htm (5250 words)

	Cinderella - Cast List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		James Buttons is a secret agent, charged with the task of undermining Blowave's scheme. He applies for the job of footman at Hardup Hall and befriends Cinderella.
		Buttons enlists the help of Q to get her to the ball in a genetically modified pumpkin, and the Prince falls in love with her.
		The Prince sends out his agents to find her and, dispite some cheating by the ugly sisters his true love is found and all is well.
	www.pantoscripts.com /cinderella_cast.asp (320 words)

	Cinderella
		A pantomime written in a traditional style, but at the same time refreshingly different, Cinderella treats your cast to some well made characters and dialogue, and conspires to involve your audience to the maximum.
		There are many opportunities for song and dance, including 23 suggested titles, and plenty of scope for including an undefined number of senior and junior chorus members in the show.
		This pantomime uses three different full set scenes, separated by half set or front of curtain scenes to allow for backstage activity.
	www.johnowensmith.co.uk /pant_cin.htm (779 words)

	channel4.com - Big Brother - Latest News - News Story
		TIM is getting nervy over tonight's eviction but the 23-year-old is philosophical about the prospect of leaving the House and being faced by jeers.
		But despite living in clothes resembling dirty rags, cleaning up after her stinky housemates, showering under freezing cold water, and living on chickpeas and lentils for almost a month, the amiable housemate kept a smile on her face and is well deserving of her Prince Charming - whoever that may be.
		Alex would nab the role of Buttons - also a Cinderella character - the well-heeled servant boy, who watches his object of affection from afar.
	www.channel4.com /entertainment/tv/microsites/B/bb3/bb_static/bigbrother/news/newsstory7a58.html (376 words)

	buttons - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Buttons : Drug Related Street Terms/Slang Words [home, info]
		Buttons : Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang [home, info]
		Phrases that include buttons: brass buttons, billy buttons, golden buttons, mescal buttons, add buttons to, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=buttons (259 words)

	:: Champion News Story :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dancing in the street was an ideal opener with an excellent group of senior dancers, led by choreographer Victoria Jones, and pupils of the Formby school of dancing and performing arts.
		There were two delightful youngsters from the audience (Joseph and Nina) to join Buttons and the Baron as the show grew to a close.
		Cinderella is one of the best pantomimes of recent years to be presented at the Southport Theatre.
	www.championline.net /newchamp/arts/news_story.asp?id=4548 (546 words)

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