I did like these paragraphs from the Dail Mail

" London's panto season effectively got off to an early start last night with the opening of Hairspray.
It doesn't tickle you into mirth. It blooming well shoves you.
Quite what the anti-obesity industry will make of the girth liberation message, Lord knows.
But this exuberant, breathless production chokes all resistance, smothering all in its orbit"