Toyah @ Christmas: Open House 2002 (2 Days To Go)
Christmas 2002, Toyah guested on Gloria Hunniford’s Open House on Channel 5. This was a panto special with Toyah in full costume, she talked about her panto for that year, Aladdin at The Anvil in Basingstoke, Calamity Jane and more.
“A singer, actress, and presenter who has brought punk to panto, Toyah Willcox…“
Gloria: You’ve lost so much weight!
Toyah: I’ve been touring Calamity Jane for months. It’s made me lean and mean!
Christopher Biggins: Her muscles are incredible
Toyah: I have to swing from rafters and I’m thrown everywhere. It’s good. And that’s just in my dressing room!
Gloria: It seems odd that someone who was always very different…panto seems to be almost tame.
Toyah: You think it’s tame to dress like a boy twice a day, go onstage and pretend to be male, and marry a woman at the end of the show? I think it’s the best thing anyone could ever do! I know what you’re saying. I don’t think I would ever have dreamt 20 years ago that I would have done panto. Now that I’ve done it for 10 years I’m passionately in love with it.
• Read a full transcript of Toyah’s interview here, and view larger versions of the screen caps here.
