American pantomime incorporates audience participation. In 1993 there was a production of "Cinderella" at the UCLA Freud Theatre, starring Zsa Zsa Gabor. Pantomonium Productions has produced pantomimes annually in New York City since 2004. Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston, Texas, has been performing original pantomime-style musicals during the Christmas holidays since 2008: "Panto Sleeping Beauty", "Panto Pinocchio", "Panto Red Riding Hood", "Panto Mother Goose" and "Panto Goldilocks". Since 2004, People's Light and Theatre Company, in Malvern, Pennsylvania, has been presenting an annual Christmas pantomime season. Lythgoe Family Productions has produced pantomimes each winter since 2010 in California. Their first production was "Cinderella"
Pantomime and its practitioners were usually slaves or freedmen. Because of the low status and the disappearance of its "libretti", the Roman pantomime received little modern scholarly attention until the late 20th century, despite its great influence upon Roman culture as perceived in Roman art, in statues of famous dancers, graffiti, objects and literature. After the renaissance of classical culture, Roman pantomime was a decisive influence upon modern European concert dance, helping to transform ballet from a mere entertainment, a display of technical virtuosity, into the dramatic ballet d'action. It became an antecedent which, through writers and ballet-masters of the 17th