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Mamma Mia!

Last night we went to see ‘Mamma Mia!’ at the cinema. Now, I like Abba as much as the next ’secure-in-my-masculinity child-of-the-seventies-and-early-eighties’ – but I had seen the trailer… and Meryl Streep wearing Dungarees and prancing about didn’t fill me with confidence. ‘Chick Flick’, thought I. It was, however, good. To my surprise. Yes, it was contrived, [...]
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Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

Annoyingly, I simply cannot watch Doctor Horrible at Doctor Horrible.Com . Doctor Horrible is the latest project from Joss Whedon. Made without backing from a studio and released online. When I try and view it I get the message ‘This Video is not available at this site’ message – I think that hulu.com, the video hosting [...]
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Cats

Last night we went to see Cats at Woking’s New Victoria Theatre. We’d never seen Cats before – despite it being in the West End for many years. We were familiar with much of the music, as well as the book of poems by TS Eliot. The first thing about Cats is that the plot is thin. [...]
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Lord of the Rings: The Musical

I have already been to see The Lord of the Rings Musical, but the BBC now has a piece on the official start of the run (video) which might help to show some of the effects used. There is a nice piece of time lapse photography for the stage itself. (The show leaves a better impression that [...]
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Fiddler on the Roof

With the wife on a business trip, I took myself off to see ‘Fiddler on the Roof‘ at the Savoy Theatre today. Whilst I’ve seen the film (which in turn was based on the show) – I’m not that familiar with it, and so it was as a new show to me. And what a Show. The [...]
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