the Nutcracker sang Golden and I have peppermints in my bra

besides having peppermints in my bra, I also taught the kids of our party to hiss and do the rapid foot-stomps instead of just booing and thumbs-downing the mouse king

and got on stage (with a buncha kids and one other adult) to run drills with the toy soldiers

oh and aside from the Nutcracker singing Golden, the Panto Horse got to do a dance to 'Orange Panto Horse' (to the tune of Pink Pony Club)

and the other thing!

We got 'sugarplums' (Dame Drosselmeyer said 'I know they look like ball pit balls but I swear they're sugarplums') to throw at the mice for the final battle until just the king was standing there getting fuckin' PELTED, but not going down until Clara threw her shoe at him

basically: it's all the fun stuff from Children's Theatre, but for adults too