In 1970, no-one would risk staging some new-fangled, rock-inspired musical drama all about Jesus Christ Superstar, based on Gospel stories of disastrous run-ins with high priests, the ruling Roman Emp ...
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For music fans of a certain vintage, the late 60s and early 70s was the peak of the concept album – an album that tells a story. Think The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society (1968), The ...
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James Jones’s best-selling 1951 novel, which won the US National Book Award, drew on his wartime experience in the Hawaiian army base just before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on 7 December 194 ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Evita at Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park, London NW1 Jamie Lloyd gives Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s 1978 rock opera a raw, brutal and contemporary concert performanc ...
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