Terence Rattigan (1911-1977) enjoyed huge success from 1936 (the year of his smash-hit, French Without Tears) until 1956, the year of the arrival of John Osborne and Look Back in Anger and all the Ang ...
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As with Sondheim’s A Little Night Music in 2022 My Fair Lady combines the truly exciting musicianship of Opera North’s big, beautiful orchestra and chorus of magnificent actor-singers with ...
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A Victorian governess, a young widow, arrives in Siam in 1862 to teach the king’s children only to find that it is the king who needs the education. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s much- ...
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The biggest laugh at the English premiere of Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion in 1913 was when Eliza Doolittle rejects an offer of a walk across the park with a “Not bloody likely!” It was the first time “blo ...
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