[5] Davidson developed White for no reason other than he felt he could perform the accent,[6] though the character was described by Sarah Hill in 2022 as melding "an egregious imitation of patois with an excess of bodily gestures deployed to connote 'West Indianness' in order to deliver material that confirmed intellectual deficiency".
Davidson co-wrote the play with Bryan Blackburn, who had been writing for Cinderella productions since 1971,[13] and had written English lyrics for "Welcome Home", "Don't Stay Away Too Long", "Rainbow", and "Hey Mr. Music Man", which had been UK Top 20 hits for Dianne's group Peters and Lee.
[13] The show's set contained several extra-large vibrators and a pantomime horse with a large penis,[20] and the Fairy Godmother was flatulent and left one scene mid-fart using a jet pack.
[21] Reviewing a March 1994 showing, Ben Thompson of The Independent described the production as a "rotten pumpkin", found Davidson's "remorselessly priapic" Buttons to be making "frequent reference to failed marriages and drink-driving convictions", took offense at his ethnic jokes, and criticised Dianne's Sinderella for "lack[ing] spark"; he did however praise Drake's "Baron Hard-on" [sic]'s "compellingly obscene figure" for setting "the tone for a production that plumbs Shakespearian heights of bawdiness", and further noted that he was struck by "the naked flesh on display" being "almost all male" and wished that "Davidson's attitude to race was similarly enlightened".
Reviewing a "seven-minute clip of the show" he had found online, Josh Widdicombe expressed his relief that it was "only seven minutes", and described what he had seen as "mainly a mix of jokes about the performers being pissed and blue puns, but not nearly as good as that makes it sound".
[24] In January 1997, the show transferred to the Shaftesbury Theatre in London as Sinderella Comes Again, which lacked Drake but featured the characters CIC, Dirty Mac, and M.C.
), great local ad-libbing from [Davidson], and a funny mix of supporting actors [...] made for an entertaining evening",[36] although Theatre Royal later revised its programming policy to exclude adult pantomimes.
[38] In 2012, having married his fifth wife three years earlier,[29] Davidson performed as Buttons at the Pavilion Theatre in Glasgow for the play Sinderella: A Scottish Romp.
Liam Turbett of Vice reckoned that the poster's "gratuitous, Carry-On style sexism" "could keep an undergrad gender studies class occupied for months".
[40] The play's plot focused on Sinderella's inability to attend a ball to meet "Bonnie Prince Long Cock" on the grounds that she was menstruating, contained scenes of Sinderella attempting to purchase tampons from a shopkeeper with an Asian accent played by Davidson, and made numerous references to shortbread, Braveheart, Davidson's Operation Yewtree arrest, the nearby pub, and Linford Christie.
[42] During the 19 March showing,[43] having been told not to drink on site by the pub's manager after he found two empty wine bottles in his dressing room, and having been further aggravated after his wife was barred from entering the stage door, Davidson spent the show's intermission at the Atholl Arms[41] in Renfield Street still wearing his costume,[43] drunk more alcohol than usual, and whinged on stage that the audience were able to drink alcohol on site while he and the rest of the cast were not.
Davidson denied being "abusive to anybody", saying that the pantomime's cancellation was a combination of poor ticket sales and the manager asserting power,[43] and stated that the show would never be performed again.