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AIBU?

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To think that going to a Pantomime after Christmas is rubbish?

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PosieIsSaggySacForLemaAndPigS · 15/10/2011 08:41

Short story.
DS1 is in a large Pantomime Production, the "The Hoff".
DH said tickets after Christmas are rubbish, he finishes work on 22nd 4pm.
I agree Pantomimes (if you must go) are good as part of Christmas build up.
We've only just got the dates that DS1 is on and all weekends and Christmas Eve is booked up.

Should we:
a) go without DH and DH and I go on an early date? (good for ~DS1 as he gets seen early on, which he likes)
b) Go on New Years Eve, all of us.
c) Go to an Evening performance before Christmas starting at 7pm, with a 5, 3 and 8 year old.

OP posts:

531800000008 · 15/10/2011 08:48

in answer to thread title

'oh no it's not'

we go to the Panto on Boxing Day, so each to their own

CogitoErgoSometimes · 15/10/2011 08:49

YABU... Post Christmas is the most boring period of the year. It's good to have a show to liven things up. Nothing to stop you going twice to support your DS.

Seabright · 15/10/2011 08:51

Pantomime are traditionally meant ot be post-Christmas

aldiwhore · 15/10/2011 08:52

We usually go just before New Year.

YABU

DownbytheRiverside · 15/10/2011 08:54

We always go in the New Year, Christmas is carol concerts, nativity plays, trees and Christmas stuff.
So YABU to be so narrow-minded for the rest of us.

StellaAndFries · 15/10/2011 08:55

We usually go after Christmas so that we have something to look forward to after all of the Christmas excitement.

Animation · 15/10/2011 08:58

Oh yes it is!

MrsPresley · 15/10/2011 08:58

This year we are going on Christmas Eve but we normally go after Christmas.

I like to have something to look forward to after Christmas.

MowlemB · 15/10/2011 09:01

Can you go twice? Early on without your dh? And again later with him?

Otherwise go after Xmas. It's when I always go anyway.

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PosieIsSaggySacForLemaAndPigS · 15/10/2011 09:02

Aha...okay thanks. I've never been after Christmas!! But we've decided not to take DS3 as the tickets are £37.50!!!!

Perhaps going after Christmas prolongs the Christmas spirit?

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SnapesMistress · 15/10/2011 09:03

Our panto is always in January, YABU

cantpooinpeace · 15/10/2011 09:05

We go new years eve afternoon, it gives us something to look forward to after the Christmas come down. We tend to go with friends then eat out after, kids tired, put them all down at friends and celebrate the new year.

Acekicker · 15/10/2011 09:14

We've gone every year for the last 3 or 4 years to the final weekend (mid-Jan) for DS's birthday. I agree that it's not rubbish, it fills the post Christmas slump nicely - and it's not as if there's a lack of events/activities to build up to Christmas in anycase.

I also always thought that traditionally pantos were supposed to start Boxing Day and run into early Jan.

BlathersFright · 15/10/2011 09:25

YABU. Ours is booked for the 27th. The bit between Christmas and New Years is always a bit of an anticlimax, the panto is something fun to look forward to.

halcyondays · 15/10/2011 09:47

Yabu, I like going after Christmas, it gives you something to look forward to afterwards and there are plenty of other things going on in the run up to Christmas. Pantos quite often go on well into January at big theatres.

MorelliOrRanger · 15/10/2011 09:50

We went on the last day of the panto this year (Jan 15th I think) and it was brilliant. Something to look forward to after the let down of Crimbo.

bah humbug.

So YABVVVVU.

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PosieIsSaggySacForLemaAndPigS · 15/10/2011 10:01

I'm glad to concede!!

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LordOfTheFlies · 15/10/2011 10:07

When my DD was in nursery they went to local theatre panto because her nursery teachers sister was in it and they got a good deal on the tickets ( mid January)

I did not know it was a post-Christmas tradition TBH.

Mine think they are too old now, but when they were little we used to go the night before my parents came for Christmas.(Evening panto, fall asleep in car.When they woke up ,G/Parents arrive. Lovely)

Zippylovesgeorge · 15/10/2011 11:25

We always go early Jan as thats when our local one is.

There's so much happening before christmas - its nice to have a treat for the first part of the new year.

GuillotinedMaryLacey · 15/10/2011 11:30

New Year's Eve would be a lovely time to go.

Tomisinathewitchescat · 15/10/2011 11:32

we always go in the week between xmas and new year

scarevola · 15/10/2011 11:42

There are 12 Days of Christmas, starting on 25th and running up to Twelfth Night. I'd say any of them would be fine!

DeWe · 15/10/2011 13:10

We go end of January/beginning of February as that's the one the girls are in.
Just started rehearsals today.
Glad they're not doing them before Christmas as I've enough to do then.

HayleySexiWeestains · 15/10/2011 17:37

yabu. We used to go evey year when I was little as a birthday treat to me (30th december) always as close to my b/day as possible
I agree is nice to have something to after the christmas -anticlimax-- excitement dies down

MillyR · 15/10/2011 18:18

I agree that there are twelve days of Christmas, so the post-Christmas period doesn't start until January.

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