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'Mod movement in Quality Street clothes' : British popular music and pantomime, 1955-1975

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Date
08/2017
Author
Mitchell, Gillian A. M.
Keywords
Variety theatre
London Palladium
Post-war Britain
Christmas entertainment
D204 Modern History
DA Great Britain
M Music
PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater
T-NDAS
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Abstract
From the late 1950s onwards, young rock ‘n’ roll musicians and popular singers were introduced into commercial Christmas pantomime productions. While this practice, which constituted an extension of their involvement in the broader sphere of variety theatre, has been previously noted, it is seldom accorded much sustained attention. In this article Gillian Mitchell explores the impact which such performers made upon pantomime, while observing the ways in which involvement in pantomime productions affected their careers and aspirations. ‘Pop stars’ brought much-needed revenue to struggling theatres, and, while their presence onstage alongside experienced pantomime performers sometimes attracted criticism, they also contributed in many ways to a reinvigoration of the medium, whether by offering fresh scope for topical gags, or by giving ambitious producers the chance to more more experimental types of production. The article also questions the notion that, by the late 1960s, pantomime had become a ‘last refuge’ for those popular musicians who were apparently unable to maintain a foothold in the increasingly ‘serious’ world of rock music.
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Mitchell , G A M 2017 , ' 'Mod movement in Quality Street clothes' : British popular music and pantomime, 1955-1975 ' , New Theatre Quarterly , vol. 33 , no. 3 , pp. 254-276 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X17000306
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New Theatre Quarterly
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X17000306
ISSN
0266-464X
Type
Journal article
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© Cambridge University Press 2017. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work complete with images is available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X17000306
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11552

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