پانتومیم
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thumb|The Christmas Pantomime colour lithograph book cover, 1890, showing [[harlequinade characters]] Pantomime (; informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment, generally combining broad and topical humour and cross-dressing actors with a story more or less based on a well-known fairy tale, fable or folk tale. Pantomime is a participatory form of theatre developed in England in the 18th century in which the audience is encouraged and expected to sing along with certain parts of the music and to shout out phrases to the performers.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- music genre
- Subclass of
- theatre music
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
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- Commons category
- Pantomime (musical comedy)
- topic's main category
- Category:Pantomime
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- facet of
- mime
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