Good news/bad news. Danny Rubin and Tim Minchin‘s new musical adaptation of Rubin and Harold Ramis‘s Groundhog Day deserves every single one of the five-star reviews it received last …
SOURCE: oneapostrophe.wordpress.com at 06:08PMOr, some collected thoughts on Wednesday’s matinee performance of the pre-West End tour of Chichester Festival Theatre’s (mostly terrific) revival of Guys and Dolls: First, heaven. Guys …
SOURCE: oneapostrophe.wordpress.com at 01:36PM…and I sort of wish it didn’t. There’s nothing at all wrong with the production. In fact, I almost don’t have enough superlatives to describe the production. Under the artistic direc…
SOURCE: oneapostrophe.wordpress.com at 10:21PMOr, some reflections on the experience of attending Wednesday’s matinée performance of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert at the Opera House in Manchester: It’s fun, sometimes relentlessly …
SOURCE: oneapostrophe.wordpress.com at 09:57PMThis is a photograph of the front of one of the buses I took to get home this evening, taken so that I could get a record of the vehicle number. What you can’t see in this photograph is th…
SOURCE: oneapostrophe.wordpress.com at 08:51PMI love theatre. I love going to the theatre more than very nearly anything else. I go to the theatre as often as I can (although not always as often as I’d like), and I’ll see very nearl…
SOURCE: oneapostrophe.wordpress.com at 05:11PMThis afternoon, I saw the current UK tour of The King and I at the Liverpool Empire. Unless hell freezes over, or I get forced to at gunpoint, or I suffer some kind of permanent concussion, …
SOURCE: oneapostrophe.wordpress.com at 09:54PMThey’re ba-aack! And this week they’re in Leeds. Sister Act: The Musical has hit the road in Britain, billed as being ‘direct from the London Palladium‘. ‘Direct’, in this case, …
SOURCE: oneapostrophe.wordpress.com at 11:36PMOr rather, afternoon, although Thursday evening was in some ways similarly unenchanting. We’ll get to that in a minute. Today, I’m afraid, was just one of those days. I had a ticket this…
SOURCE: oneapostrophe.wordpress.com at 05:26PMOr, My Trip to the Apple Store. On the enjoyment scale, it did not rate ten out of ten. [Edit – there is more to this story. Apple subsequently made amends, spectacularly. I’m leaving th…
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