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pLAY rEVIEWS: Beecham

... man of formidable power and authority in the musical world, in concert hall as well as opera house. He was a philanderer, married several times, had a wondrous knack of getting large sums of money out of the rich in order to further his musical projects ...

Published: Thursday 07 February 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 326 | Page: 11 | Tags: performance review 

Plays Reviews: The Summer Party

... exotic butterfly which is all her character is and Alan Rickman brings a tetchy, aristocratic edge to the promoter who is married to her. What acting honours there are be long to Dexter Fletcher as an astonishingly unpleasant child pro digy mind-bending ...

Published: Monday 03 March 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 282 | Page: 7 | Tags: performance review 

Dance: Swan Lake

... the rarest jewel, it radiates in every respect. The steely precision of ner legs, with the high jumps and extensions, is married to a melting softness in the arms and neck, and an incomparable grace in the deep back bends. Nowadays she relies more than ...

Published: Thursday 07 August 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 420 | Page: 25 | Tags: performance review 

Bands and Jazz: 50 GLORIOUS YEARS

... 50 GLORIOUS YEARS Joe's married off more couples than most clergymen BY GEORGE BARTRAM IF IT is impossible to realise that the slim, trim Joe Loss is celebrating his 50th anniversary as a bandleader this year, I find it even more amazing when I recall ...

Published: Thursday 16 October 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1223 | Page: 28 | Tags: performance review 

Crab Apple Jazz Band

... saxes and Ray Poldock on trumpet. The band's vocalist is Irish-born Mari Goody, a TV and cabaret artist back home before she married an Eng lishman. 0 MEL DANSER has just finished a three-month season at Chaplins in Swallow Street, a change from his usual ...

Published: Thursday 16 October 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 177 | Page: 30 | Tags: performance review 

Play Reviews: The Revolt

... The effect is like being in an ice bound aquarium, and is a fitting symbol for this slight story of an attractive woman, married only a few years, who decides to leave her middle-aged bourgeois husband, obsessed with the business the wife has helped to ...

Published: Wednesday 24 December 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 319 | Page: 11 | Tags: performance review 

Play Reviews: The House That Jack Built

... and the Parson, not to mention the vociferous assistance of the audience Tom's rights are re established and he is able to marry Penny, the maiden all forlorn, and thus end the story on the right note. There are some amusing inventions and variations on ...

Published: Wednesday 24 December 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 434 | Page: 11 | Tags: performance review 

Play Reviews: Sprightly play dedicated to the gaiety of actors

... Trelawny, the young star of Sadler's Wells, influenced by her actress mother, thinks she will be happy by leaving the theatre to marry Arthur Gower, grandson of the Vice- Chancellor, but after four weeks in Sir William's house, where she is forbidden to laugh ...

Published: Wednesday 24 December 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 451 | Page: 11 | Tags: performance review 

Focus on OPERA: Opera Reviews: Miniature Offenbach version

... Viceroy to become a maid of honour at his court, and her lover-companion, to satisfy etiquette persuaded by doses of brandy to marry her without knowing what he is doing. Protesting, when sober, he finds himself in prison, from which his wife helps him to ...

Published: Thursday 09 April 1981
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 331 | Page: 13 | Tags: performance review 

Play Reviews: Modern warfare

... of the attributes ot the gangster. Considering thai the action takes place not in a guerrilla war zone but in a colonel's married quarters in Camberley, the play is something of a small triumph, particularly as it is car ried through the medium of only ...

Published: Thursday 13 August 1981
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 375 | Page: 41 | Tags: performance review