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No Laughs Left: Gothic Opera Presents “Rip Van Winkle”

kevin — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 22:25:34 +0000

In 1878 The Chimes of Normandy became the ‘hit’ musical show in London, running for over 700 performances, which was

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“The Pleasure Garden” and Its Place in the History of LGBT Musicals

kevin — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 13:55:04 +0000

In 2021, the “bittersweet musical romance” The Pleasure Garden premiered at the Above the Stag theater in London. It’s a

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“The Pleasure Garden“: The LGBT History of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens as a Musical

kevin — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 10:36:52 +0000

Back in 2004, the Wien Museum presented the exhibition Alt-Wien: Die Stadt, die niemals war. It examined the phenomenon that

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G&S’s “Patience” Presented by Charles Court Opera in an Updated Version

kevin — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:17:36 +0000

Charles Court Opera has been described as one of the leading and most versatile chamber music theatre companies in the

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Opera Rara Set to Record Offenbach’s “La Princesse de Trébizonde”

kevin — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 13:08:59 +0000

The British record label Opera Rara returns to the works of Jacques Offenbach – for the first time since they

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An 18th Century Operetta Composer? First Recording Of Charles Dibdin’s “The Wags”

kevin — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 10:54:41 +0000

Charles Dibdin is often thought of, assuming he is thought of at all, as one of the links between the

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“Bitte Britisch”: Wenn Frankensteins Monster die Hose runterlässt

kevin — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 16:47:48 +0000

Vermutlich kennen Fans der Mel-Brooks-Filme den ekstatischen Liebesschrei „A Sweet Mystery of Life“ besser als die meisten Operettenfans hierzulande. Denn

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The Incomparable Maudi Darrell: One-Time Darling Of London’s Gaiety Theatre

kevin — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 10:58:20 +0000

The story begins almost like a fairy tale: Once upon a time there were three brothers, George, Edward and John.

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RSC: Reconstructing Erik Charell’s Shakespeare Adaptation “Swingin’ the Dream”

kevin — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 13:01:21 +0000

When the Shakespeare adaptation Swingin‘ the Dream opened on Broadway in 1939 it followed Erik Charell’s earlier XXL-sized Broadway hit

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COX AND BOX, or The Long Lost Brothers: Musical Triumviretta In 1 Act With Music By Arthur Sullivan

kevin — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 09:47:18 +0000

This Musical triumviretta in 1 act was adapted from J Maddison Morton’s farce Box and Cox by F C Burnand,

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A Naughty Gaiety Girl …

kevin — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 12:32:39 +0000

When you ‘live’ in a certain ‘world’ – in my case, that of the 19th century musical theatre – you

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Racist Minstrel Magic? The Story of the George Mitchell Choirs

kevin — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 07:37:24 +0000

A seventy-one year old man, a little crippled these days, lying in the too-scorching sun by the Australian seaside, reading

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