A conversation

I'm sitting getting my nails done (they're now very dark green, with silver stars, and rather fabulous!) and the conversation has turned to pantomime. One of the girls has been to 'the other' panto* which this year is Aladdin.

'Yeah, it was ok, but when they got the magic carpet out, my sister and I got really excited'
'Why?'
'Because this was the bit we were waiting for, 'A Whole New World', but it wasn't even Aladdin and the Princess on the carpet, and they didn't even sing it. It was really disappointing'.

I bite my tongue, and don't try and explain that this is panto, and not a stage adaptation of the Disney film.

*This being the one at the Grand Opera House, and not the Theatre Royal, which, as everyone knows, is the only panto to see in York.