Posted in Uncategorized on 27/10/2024| Leave a Comment »
This is a new title for two paired one act Terence Rattigan plays: Table Number Seven (from Separate Tables) and The Browning Version. The review of SUMMER 1954 is here. (Follow link). It’s at Bath Theatre Royal at the start of a tour, so again, as with recent reviews, there is a chance of getting to see it. Great lead performances from Nathaniel Parker in both plays, and by Siân Phillips (at 91!) in Table Number Seven. No photos yet. They will be added when they appear.
Posted in Uncategorized on 25/10/2024| Leave a Comment »
Review of PLAY ON! by the Talawa all-black theatre company at Salisbury. (Follow link). This is a musical set in the Cotton Club in Harlem in the 1940s. All the music is Duke Ellington related, and it’s loosely based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, though all new text and it is NOT a parallel. All singing and dancing. Brilliantly performed and played. Yet no London critics have ventured to see it in Coventry, Liverpool or Salisbury. Still it goes on to Birmingham,. Bristol and Hammersmith. I guess they may deign to do Hammersmith.
Posted in Uncategorized on 20/10/2024| Leave a Comment »
I love reviewing shows which most readers will be able to see. THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW stars Jason Donovan (link to review), and after Bath, goes to thirty-four more venues. Is it good? We are booking to see it again next year when it gets to Bournemouth.
Posted in Uncategorized on 18/10/2024| 1 Comment »
RCA Neon (FOLLOW LINK) on Around & Around.
One of the most collectible prog / jazz labels of all. Yet there were just eleven LPs and four singles in 1971-72. It lasted nine months. The record prices are astonishing.
Posted in Uncategorized on 18/10/2024| Leave a Comment »
On Around & Around:
The 45 design sections are in the first two RCA articles, but the RCA post-1968 is much longer, so the designs merit a separate article.
https://aroundandaroundcom.wordpress.com/rca-post-1968-45-designs/
Posted in Uncategorized on 13/10/2024| 1 Comment »
At AROUND AND AROUND, RCA & Elvis Presley (follow link)
The sections on Elvis from the other RCA pages are here, with extra material throughout and an extensive post-1977 section on the reissues, aka The Elvis Industry
Posted in Uncategorized on 13/10/2024| Leave a Comment »
An unusual last minute choice for us at Poole Lighthouse. BEN PORTSMOUTH: THIS IS ELVIS (follow link to review). A major Elvis tribute act, nearly filling the concert hall. I’ve been immersed in Elvis while working on a section in AROUND AND AROUND so we thought we’d give it a go. This guy really has a huge fan following. An odd evening all in all!
Posted in Uncategorized on 12/10/2024| Leave a Comment »
Review of REDLANDS by Charlotte Jones at Chichester Festival Theatre (follow link to the review). The play is directed by Justin Audibert, Chichester’s new artistic director. We thought it a triumph. It’s a play with lots of live music rather than a musical, and follows the tale of the 1967 Mick Jagger & Keith Richards drugs bust. However, Jones weaves the story of their lawyer, Michael Havers and his family as an intertwined parallel. In all of it, perhaps the most important character is Marianne Faithfull, brilliantly peortrayed by Erma McDaid. There are songs, dance and Justin Talbot (on his debut) channels Mick Jagger on stage superbly. We both gave it five stars.
Posted in Uncategorized on 11/10/2024| Leave a Comment »
Review of the Told by An Idiot / Chichester production of THE CAT & THE CANARY (follow link to review). It’s the classic drawing room spooky whodunit from 1922, which was made into four films over the years. Adapted by Carl Grose from John Willard’s original play. A hilarious evening at Chichester’s Minerva Theatre.
Posted in Uncategorized on 06/10/2024| Leave a Comment »
Review of THE TAMING OF THE SHREW at Shakespeare’s Globe (follow link). This production is playing in repertory with Princess Essex with much the same cast. It’s an extreme absurdist take on the story, as if they’re afraid to play it for what it is. Now I usually give higher ratings than most, but they don’t count unless you give a really bad review when you feel it deserves it. This does, It’s pretentious tripe.
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