Backstage stories have always been the norm ever since Hollywood discovered the musical. The most popular cliché is the one in which a girl steps out of the chorus to stand in for the leading lady and ...
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1845 Prosper Merimée’s novel is published. 1875 Georges Bizet’s opera is premiered. Its clarity, vivacity, colour and melody have made it the most popular and frequently performed opera in the world. ...
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I last saw Matthew Bourne’s Edward Scissorhands at its premiere in 2005. The faults it had eighteen years ago remain. The storyline is poor and far too much time is spent caricaturing American suburbi ...
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Cameron Mackintosh, who had a lifetime of collaboration with Stephen Sondheim, devised Old Friends, a spectacular, one-night, all-star ensemble gala concert in 2022 to honour Sondheim who had died in ...
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