PANTO SPECIAL – The Golden Age of Panto
By Cheryl BarrettNobody loves a fairy when she’s forty? Rubbish. In the popular music hall song, written by Arthur Le Clerq in 1934 and made popular by Tessie O’Shea, the lyrics point out that ‘Nobody loves a fairy when she’s forty, nobody loves a fairy when she’s old.’ It is a lament about the passing of age with audiences seemingly wanting younger fairies – Arguably more relevant this year with Brian Conley appearing grey for the first time. Barbara Windsor turned those lyrics on their head. She was still playing the panto fairy into her seventies and the audiences loved her.
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