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===Aaaaaah!===
===Aaaaaah!===
Characters who are down on their [[luck]] or in unhappy situations often angle for the audience to comfort them with a sympathetic 'Aaaaaah!'. For example, the buffoon's unrequited [[love]] for the main female character will often elicit this response.
Characters who are down on their [[luck]] or in unhappy situations often angle for the audience to comfort them with a sympathetic 'Aaaaaah!'. For example, the buffoon's unrequited [[love]] for the main female character will often elicit this response.
==Present day==
Although pantomime is a traditional theater form, it has not become '[[fossil]]ized', and adapts to suit the needs of modern audiences. Most obviously, professional pantomimes recruit local and national [[celebrities]] to help pull in crowds. These are often [[soad opera]] actors, singers, or [[television]] and [[radio]] personalities. Sometimes people who have been very famous, or 'serious' actors, see pantomime as a humbling sign of a career on the wane, but many others enjoy the work for its own sake - Sir [[Ian McKellan]] is a good example of an actor who chose to take part in pantomime when he had never been more sought-after in serious film and theater.
As well as the cast, modern pantomimes often include topical jokes and references to modern technology, revelling in the anachronism of, say, a [[motorbike]] appearing in a pre-[[industrial revolution|industrial]] English village.
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