"BO-PEEP" PAMOMIME.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14831, 24 November 1913, Page 9

"80-PEEP" PAMOMIME.

Anywhere where pantomime is announced to be staged the playgoer associates something quito out of tho ordinary in the music, scenery, dressing, singers, and dancers;. Fulfilment of this is promised in tho production next Thursday at the Theatre- Royal of "BoPeep," by the Royal Pantomime Company, which is making • first tour off the Dominion. Tho company numbers fifty performers. The dancing alone, — is claimed, will be a feature of the production, and some new and novel wallets will be introduced, notably the "Floral Ballet." in which each participant represents some flower. Tho music has boon specially written by Mr Harry Taylor, who has had many years' experience in this class of work. His music is said to do of the catchy order, and wherever it has been played it has earned popularity. Too songs are also from Mr Harry Taylor's pen, and it is a recommendation of all tnoso sung in "80-Peep" tnat they are not hackneyed. The principal boy fMiss 'Kathleen Mack). "80-Peep" (Miss Rita Webb). Miss Cora Terry, and Miss Esmo Mrfjellan, all have popular numbers allotted to them, whilst the comedians (Mr Victor 1-ioy-dnll being one of them) are well supplied with songs which lend themselves to topical allusions. The scenery is from the brush of Mr Harry w haite. and includes a, gorgeous setting "The - our Seasons, , a transformation sc«ne. A matinee will be given on Saturday afternoon, when children will be admitted at half-price to all parts of the house.