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Why no Gilbert and Sullivan Revivals? Jan 9
2018, 10:32:15 AM
The Jonathan Miller Mikado still works well. As it's a satire on British society, transporting it to a hotel lobby, inhabited St Trinian's schoolgirls and golf-playing toffs, seemed to do the business.
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Divorce Me, Darling Jan 7
2018, 04:47:48 PM
I enjoyed the show at Chichester, well enough. In its revised state, I think it is still a bit overlong but its still a fun pastiche show. Although, I'm not sure it stands alone from The Boyfriend to work as an entity, but I say that knowing The Boy Friend.
The original cast album is a bit of a strange affair, Patricia Michael, who played Polly, was ill during the recording and Jenny Wren covers for her in a couple of numbers. The Chichester recording is also a good v
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FOLLIES- National Theatre Live Jan 2
2018, 04:34:22 AM
I've no doubt there are some glorious disasters - John Gielgud, springs to mind - but for directors not known for musical theatre work, Messrs. Daldry, Ockrent, Pimlott and Mendes might disagree. I'm not sure it's a hard and fast rule.
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FOLLIES- National Theatre Live Dec 27
2017, 01:03:35 PM
'Dismissal' is the wrong word, I admit, however, I'd suggest it is too pat a reading of a more complex character.
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FOLLIES- National Theatre Live Dec 27
2017, 11:29:51 AM
I enjoyed this production a great deal more than many of the other productions I have seen of this piece, especially the last two Broadway outings. However, I am not at all convinced of the idea that Sally is necessarily suffering from a mental illness, per se. She has always struck me as being a rather nervy, anxious woman who becomes an unpleasant drunk, with a good line in emotional blackmail and attention seeking. That really came over in Imelda Staunton's performance.
Young Sa
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Gypsy Live at the Savoy Jan 6
2016, 02:00:33 PM
As a long-time lurker, I hesitate to comment on this - I've admired the show, but I'm not sure I've really ever liked it, but I have somehow managed to see most major productions. And with Staunton, I felt, finally, saw a Rose, I understood, there was no pulling of punches with the character -no attempt to make the audience like the character - she's a monster at the beginning of the piece, she ends as one and probably creates, at least, one other in the process. There's n
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