60's guitarist and cockney comic songster Joe Brown was excellent in panto at Windsor UK for years in the Simple Simon/Idle Jack/Buttons roles. A good comic rapport with ace dame Brian Burdon and a couple of musical turns on guitar, fiddle, mandolin or melodeon ("Oh no he didn't?" "Oh yes he did!")thrown in.
Too many theatrical memories but two stand out:Laurence Olivier in "Long Day's Journey..." at the Old Vic: 4 hours flew by despite the hard seats, and Elizabeth Bergner in "The Cat" at Greenwich. I'd never heard of her before but this little old lady simple had star quality and became the young girl before your eyes, though she had been playing the part for years.
RtS (Brian Burden used to say: "Any Americans in the house?" On getting an affirmative:"Well this will all be a worry to you, won't it?" indicating his own frocks and the Principal boy's fishnet tights!)