Changes in the panto landscape

On The Stage Newsblog, Mark Shenton reflects on the seven (!) pantomimes he's seen this season.

...though my sampling may not in any way be definitive, each have been very handsomely produced; I did, however, spy a certain homogeneity between the two separate Cinderellas I saw, which may have had different writers credited to each, but seemed to oddly share some of the identical jokes and topical references.