Cole Porter’s High Society is based on The Philadelphia Story, the Broadway play Philip Barry wrote for Katharine Hepburn in 1939. It ran for 417 performances. Today, its reputation rests entirely on ...
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Like everybody else, I was surprised when I heard that The Great British Bake Off was going to be made into a musical. I could imagine it on stage in a send-up sketch in an old-fashioned revue. I coul ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs Oklahoma! (BBC iPlayer) was in 1943 a major turning point in the history of the American musical, famous for its wonderful songs and its brilliant choreography w ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Half A Sixpence at Noel Coward Theatre, London WC2 H G Wells’ Kipps was already a period piece when published in 1905. Set in Victorian England, the novel is a comic parable, a ...
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