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On Sondheim: An Opinionated Guide By Ethan Mordden Oxford University Press, New York; xiii, 186 (pp216) ISBN 978-0199394814 Published January [...]
March 15, 2016
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I have long been a fan of Stephen Sondheim. I first encountered him back in the 1960’s, but my love affair was sealed with Merrily We [...]
October 28, 2015
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And now: for my 160th blog, something completely different……. The White Feather and The Smallest Show on Earth Last [...]
October 6, 2015
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I first saw Gypsy the night I got my PhD back in 1973! It starred Angela Lansbury and I was bowled over. The music by Jules Styne [...]
April 25, 2015
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This is the moment. It only takes a moment. The fateful moment. The banal moment. The long moment. Dancing through life. Anything [...]
January 10, 2015
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This has been a good summer for the great classic musicals: Kiss Me Kate at the Proms; Guys and Doll at Chichester; Porgy and Bess at [...]
August 30, 2014
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I first encountered Voltaire’s witty and scatty satire Candide when I was at school ( it was a set text for A level); and it has stayed [...]
January 15, 2014
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This has been a good year for musicals, and it is more or less coming to an end with this little treat currently running at the Young Vic in [...]
November 26, 2013
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So here comes the big musical hit of the summer! I first saw this grand musical on Broadway in 1997 when it was given a full and spectacular [...]
August 13, 2013
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RAGS This is a ‘long lost’ musical – lost partly because when it opened in 1986, it was a big flop on Broadway and run all of [...]
July 6, 2013
