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A MUSICAL IS BORN…OUT OF POP”S PAST
I liked this rackety, brassy, exhilarating banger of a show: a cartoonish bit of history, a jukebox musical with a heart of gold . It’s from an East Anglian touring consortium of five theatres with a feeling for their North Sea coast, celebrating the brief, glori...
ETHICS AND EVASIONS
It’s a cluttered upper room, overcrowded with grand old furniture, a gramophone, harp, oddities like fencing foils and a home-built valve radio. The sense is of heavy old-fashioned prosperity worn to junk. It’s sixteen years since the old man died, ruined in the 1936 crash, but nothing has been moved or sold. Now in 1968 his two...
UNIVERSAL , INTIMATE, TRUE
Sometimes it’s more than worth it to flog irritably through a London strike day, make it without even time for a drink but find something plain wonderful. And that is not only because Katie Greenall’s production invites audiences to enter the pub set fifteen minutes early, with Olivia Forrest’s Charlene idly p...
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSESSIONS
The old `Players’ Theatre has a good eye of oddball new musicals, cheap enough to sample before anyone’s train home. And here off-Broadway’s Carmel Owen has made, with palpable love, a romantic and indeed at times borderline soupy full-scale musical in tribute to Claude Monet. In atmosphere ,...
A SHUDDER FROM THE PAST
I came to this fresh from admiring two 76-year-olds , Anna Wintour and Meryl Streep, being painfully cool and haughty in a trailer plugging Devil Wears Prada 2. I was also foot-weary from accidentally doing two sides of the vast and gruesome Victorian Brompton Cemetery, which always l...