I'm allergic to Panto since living in East Anglia and being forced to review the varius summer and winter shows in Lowestoft and Yarmouth - all those B-list celebs fromTV soaps and quiz shows hamming up the double entendres was just too much, I'm afraid!
As for magical evenings in the theatre - there are many, but one of the most moving was Bill Bryden's Mystery Play cycle at the Cottesloe in the late Seventies, with Brian Glover playing God and music arranged by John Tams and Ashley Hutchings.
That was a visceral, tears-in-the-eyes, hair-standing-on-the-neck piece of pure theatrical magic.