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Vanilla Ice to Appear in Mime Version of Peter Pan

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Photo: Stephen Fernandez / Splash News/? www.splashnews.com

This is a true thing that we did not make up in a rousing game of early morning mad-libs: Robert Van Winkle, better known as Vanilla Ice, will be playing Captain Hook in a pantomime version of Peter Pan being staged this coming December in England. The theater’s manager says, “(He) has never performed in a pantomime before, but I am sure that he will go down as a hit.” [BBC via RS]

Vanilla Ice to Appear in Mime Version of Peter Pan