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Long life

When Mickey Rooney came to Milton Keynes

What is it that draws a genuine Hollywood legend to Milton Keynes Theatre?

16 January 2016

9:00 AM

16 January 2016

9:00 AM

Before the start of Aladdin in Milton Keynes this week a promotional video showed Brian Blessed in oriental costume bellowing to the audience that pantomime had never been so popular in its long history and that Britain was still full of people longing to shout ‘He’s behind you!’, ‘Oh, yes it is!’, ‘Oh, no it isn’t!’, or whatever.

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