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SHOWCASE: Paul Bridson and Malcolm Murray

... response from the comedy due to the sparse audi ence, he wisely concentrated on big ballads such as She Believes In Me and America to leave a lasting impression on the hand-clapping audience. Although the stunts provided by Magnum Force looked quite promising ...

Published: Thursday 25 January 1990
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2408 | Page: 8 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Wilde about Donald

... anecdotes, aphorisms and parables, designed to show off a philosophy that is still hedonistic, talking about his tour of America many years before, giving his views about other writers, women, art and theatre managers. But Sindcn cleverly suggests the ...

Published: Thursday 25 January 1990
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 384 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Caucasian Chalk Circle

... choice for the National Youth Music Theatre to perform at the Sadler's Wells Theatre. Written whilst Brecht was in exile in America during the Second World War, he chose the Shakespearean theme of an unworldly innocent who selflessly risks her life and love ...

Published: Thursday 08 February 1990
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 312 | Page: 15 | Tags: theatre review 

SHOWCASE: Les Hart Entertainments

... good song content. Steel Band Kaiso were a welcome change of musical style and featured songs from the Caribbean and South America. They even produced the recent chart hit Lambada. Brigette Howland of Foregone Conclusion looked like a young Eartha Kin and ...

Published: Thursday 08 February 1990
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1453 | Page: 8 | Tags: theatre review 

SHOWCASE: John Mills Entertainments

... schedule with a crisp and exciting Soul and R&B flavoured set, including a magnifi cent working of James Brown's Living In America, and an equally enjoyable version of Canned Heat's 1970 chart smash Let's Work Together. Diminutive vocalist Dave Arnold opened ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1990
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2269 | Page: 8 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: The Man Who Lost America

... The Man Who Lost America LATCHMERE SAVING the best till last, Michael BuirelPs season of plays at the Latch- mere ends with a two hander set during the American War of Independence. In a barn near Saratoga a young soldier is rudely awakened by the presence ...

Published: Thursday 21 June 1990
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 293 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Maria Magdalene

... decision to update the ac tion and place it complete with declamatorv soliloquies and asides such as Stop, heart! in redneck America, is remarkable for its per versity. What topples this tightly- constructed melodrama into absurdity is the taped music ac ...

Published: Thursday 21 June 1990
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 252 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Love Letters

... s with her aged mother. The play is quite a gem: humorous and moving. Much of course depends upon the reading itself. In America over 60 well known American actors have rotated in it. The Arts Centre, which is presenting Love Letters, is doing the same ...

Published: Thursday 02 August 1990
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 336 | Page: 16 | Tags: theatre review 

Light Entertainment News: Composer demands High Court musical rights

... claims Gordon McNally has not only failed to pay him over £12,000 for his work, but also threatens to exploit the musical in America without his con sent. McNally, he claims, commis sioned him in July last year. According to the writ he agreed to pay Todd ...

Published: Thursday 23 August 1990
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 250 | Page: 3 | Tags: theatre review 

Opera and Dance: American Indian Dance Theatre

... THE AMERICAN Indian Dance Theatre was formed from the finest dancers and singers at powwows and festivals throughout North America, and brings the right note of cultural integrity and authentic celebration to dispel Hollywood cowboys and Indians stereotypes ...

Published: Thursday 04 October 1990
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 311 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review 

Opera and Dance: Miami vice and virtues

... elegance and daring. As yet his company is too young to have arrived at this level of definition. His dancers epitomise young America as Balanchine knew it, putting energy, effort and enthusiasm into big movement but without the refinement that makes their ...

Published: Thursday 04 October 1990
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 321 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review