Pantomime at the Lyceum Theatre in 1939. Traditionally performed at Christmas and afterwards, with family audiences, British pantomime continues as a popular form of theatre, incorporating song, dance, buffoonery, slapstick, cross-dressing, in-jokes, topical references, audience participation, and mild sexual innuendo. Pantomime story lines and scripts usually make no direct reference to Christmas, and are almost always based on traditional children's stories, particularly the fairy tales of Charles Perrault, Joseph Jacobs, Hans Christian Andersen and the Grimm Brothers. Some of the most popular pantomime stories include "Cinderella", "Aladdin", "Dick Whittington and His Cat" and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", as well
Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are "Die Unstillbare Gier", a song performed by the character Graf von Krolock in the rock-opera "Tanz der Vampire". Steve Barton performed the song on the 1998 Original Vienna Cast Recording. Steinman rewrote the "Tanz" version into English as "Confession of a Vampire" for the ill-fated US version ("Dance of the Vampires") of the musical starring Michael Crawford. Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are" is a song composed and written by Jim Steinman, and recorded by Meat Loaf. The song was released in