It can be a role as career-defining as Hamlet. Dan Leno, who starred at Drury Lane every Christmas from 1888 to 1904, was the first great pantomime dame: a tiny ex-clog dancer with a top-knot. George Robey took up the, um, baton " "Many's the squeeze she's had of my blue bag on washing day" " to be followed by, among others, Berwick Kaler, who laid down his ginger wig and Wagon Wheel biscuits in 2019 after 40 years a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PM on December 19, 2020