He's behind you!

Haven't been to a pantomime for yonks - not since the kids were little.  I remember trying to explain pantomime to an American lady that I used to correspond with, and finding it very difficult.  You know the sort of thing - the principal boy is played by a girl, and the Dame is a man in drag, and so on.  But it appears that this is becoming rarer - more and more productions are casting a male principal boy, and doing without a Dame altogether.  It has been suggested that children are becoming more politically correct, but I can't help feeling that the magic is being destroyed.