Greg your entitled to your opinion but you clearly don't work for qdos or the palladium and therefore have no idea of insurance/ licencing (there is no licence needed as its bespoke written panto for the venue and isn't licenced from anyone) budgets and finance. be careful of your words.

All anyone can do is wait for lockdown to ease and then see what happens to theatre land before panto season is addressed.

Scare mongering isn't helpful at the moment.