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Photo Flashback: “Banana Boy” Pantomime brings cheers to all

Published:Friday | January 3, 2025 | 8:06 AM
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Grannie Rachel (Inez Hibbert) rebukes Mortimer (Buddy Pouyatt) for jealousy of his beautiful wife Celia.
Norman (Keith Bradley) tells the Banana Girls a “good one”.
MUM (Louise Bennett in her pedal pushers ignores the Rastas and their Queen, Charlotte Second (Maud Fuller), but not for long.
ANGELA (Alma Mok Yen), who has more words than brain - is silent when Bragga boasts of his clean-shaven chin while Lousie Bennett and Rannie Williams (Mum and Mr. Bentley) do other stuff.
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The Little Theatre Movement's 21st Annual Pantomime at the Ward Theatre in January 1962 brought traditional seasonal cheer to young and old, rich and poor alike.
 Recognised for years as the great theatrical event of Jamaica, the Pantomime musicals won local and international acclaim.