Question: In 1986, Oliver Muirhead directed "A Christmas Held Captive", which is what type of musical comedy that includes songs, gags, and slapstick comedy, and combines topical humour with a story that is loosely based on a well-known fairy tale, fable, or folk talk? 

Context articles: Fairytale Forest
Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater
Here Come the Seventies (radio show)
Oliver Muirhead
American pantomime
Pantomime
Poor Jake's Demise
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
The Fisherman and His Wife
A Christmas Held Captive

The Fairytale Forest ("Sprookjesbos" in Dutch) is a 15 acre wooded section of the amusement park Efteling in the Netherlands, where a number of well-known fairy tales and fairy tale figures are depicted by animated statues and buildings.
 Most of the figures are inspired by the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Charles Perrault.
Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater is a Japanese-American-Canadian co-produced animated series based on the Japanese character, Hello Kitty.
 The series involved her and her friends doing their own version of popular fairy tales and stories.
 Each of the 13 episodes consisted of two 11-minute cartoons, for a total of 26 “shows”; each show was a spoof of a well-known fairy tale or movie.]
Here Come the Seventies was a CBC Radio comedy show that was broadcast as part of the "Variety Tonight" program.
 Despite the name - a deliberate take-off of "Here Come the Seventies", a 1970s CTV television show - this show was broadcast for one season in the early 1980s.
 While it often focused on topical humour, its brand of often surreal and character-based confrontational humour presaged that of "The Frantics", arguably its immediate comedic successors on CBC radio.
Oliver Muirhead (born 29 May 1957) is an English character actor known for often portraying pompous country gentlemen.
 In 1986, he also directed the musical pantomime "A Christmas Held Captive".
 In addition to acting, Muirhead has also lent his voice to various animated series such as "P.J. Sparkles" and "Spider-Man" and the video games "", "Dead to Rights", "The Hobbit" and "Eragon".
American pantomime, panto for short, refers to works of theatrical entertainment that have been presented in the United States of America since 1876.
 The works are derived from the entertainment genre of pantomime that developed in England, presented either as they are in Britain or adapted for the American stage and tailored to American audiences.
 Pantomime in America, as in England, is usually performed at Christmas time.
 The entertainments, aimed at families, are based on nursery stories and fairy tales, and they incorporate songs (traditional, popular and new), slapstick comedy, often topical jokes, magic, some cross-dressing, local references, audience participation, and mild adult innuendo.
Pantomime (informally panto), is a type of musical comedy stage production, designed for family entertainment.
 It was developed in England and is still performed throughout the United Kingdom, generally during the Christmas and New Year season and, to a lesser extent, in other English-speaking countries.
 Modern pantomime includes songs, gags, slapstick comedy and dancing, employs gender-crossing actors, and combines topical humour with a story loosely based on a well-known fairy tale, fable or folk tale.
 It is a participatory form of theatre, in which the audience is expected to sing along with certain parts of the music and shout out phrases to the performers.
Poor Jake's Demise is a 1913 American silent short slapstick comedy film directed by Allen Curtis and featuring Max Asher and Lon Chaney.
 The slapstick film focuses on Jake who finds his wife in a compromising position with another man and later takes his revenge with a seltzer bottle.
 It is one of several slapstick comedy films Chaney made for Universal at the start of his career and is also his first credited screen role.
 The film was presumed lost, but a fragment of the film was discovered in England in May 2006 and restored.
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties is a 2006 American-British family comedy film directed by Tim Hill and written by Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow.
 It is the sequel to the 2004 film "".
 The film stars Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Billy Connolly, Ian Abercrombie, Roger Rees, Lucy Davis, Oliver Muirhead, Bill Murray, Tim Curry, Bob Hoskins, Rhys Ifans, Vinnie Jones, Joe Pasquale, Richard E. Grant, Jane Leeves and Roscoe Lee Browne.
 This film was produced by Davis Entertainment Company for 20th Century Fox, and was released in United States on June 16, 2006.
 A video game, "", was developed by The Game Factory.
 The film earned $141.7 million.
"The Fisherman and His Wife" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale no. 19.
 It is Aarne–Thompson type 555, the fisherman and his wife.
 Its theme was used in "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish", an 1833 poem by Aleksandr Pushkin.
 Virginia Woolf has her character Mrs. Ramsey in "To the Lighthouse" read a version of the story to her son, James.
 Günter Grass's 1977 novel, "The Flounder," is loosely based on the fairy tale, as are Emanuele Luzzati's version, "Punch and the Magic Fish," and Ursula LeGuin's novel "The Lathe of Heaven".
A Christmas Held Captive is an original musical with lyrics and music by Robert J. Sherman and Christopher M. Dawson and book by Lavina Dawson and Michael A. Dawson.
 The musical officially premiered on December 14, 1986 at the Beverly Hills Playhouse and closed on January 18, 1987.
 The production was directed by Oliver Muirhead who also played the role of "Constable Scrooge" in the production.
 Sets and Costumes were designed by Cora Seiler.
 The Music Director was composer Christopher Dawson.
 Vocal direction was done by lyricist, Robert Sherman.
 Stage Management was done by Lee Doebler.
 Lighting and sound were supervised by Robert Duncan.
 The show's corporately sponsored by Mrs. Field's Cookies and privately co-sponsored by John Mazur.