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  • In pantomime, a principal boy role is the young male protagonist of the play, traditionally played by a young actress in boy's clothes.

    July 18, 2008

  • Peter Pan is traditionally played by a girl, yes?

    July 18, 2008

  • Yes, except Peter Pan isn't strictly speaking a pantomime, having been written in the early 1900s.

    July 18, 2008