Lesbian and gay Munich traffic lights
I saw them in August, but they’ve since gone, alas.
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Nov
I saw them in August, but they’ve since gone, alas.
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Nov
Earlier this year, I saw 28 of the movies at the Spanish Film Festival, which was a bit of a slide in form. I’d seen 30 in 2015. I’m not quite so obsessed about the British Film Festival, which in any event doesn’t have as many. But in addition to showing some interesting new films, it…
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Nov
In retrospect, the next musical I saw after My Fair Lady at the Sydney Opera House was never going to seem remotely as good. My Fair Lady was based on a play by George Bernard Shaw, using large amounts of his words, superbly augmented by Alan Jay Lerner – one of musical theatre’s greatest ever writers….
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Nov
I broke a four year self-imposed ban on visiting Sydney to go to a friend’s 50th birthday party, and to see Opera Australia’s production of My Fair Lady, directed by Julie Andrews, who starred in the original production that opened on Broadway in 1956. My friend JJ came over from New York, Cousin Jo and…
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Nov
… at the Smithsonian American Art Museum / National Portrait Gallery
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Nov
At the Hollywood Museum … … I saw the bottle from I Dream of Jeannie … … Lucille Ball’s Emmy awards … … and another pair of ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz. (I say another because of the two I saw in Washington DC last year.) But I also spotted some errors. Mistake #1: The character…
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Nov
In 1972, the lavish Broadway musical Follies closed after losing close to a million dollars, despite obsessive admirers and a Tony winning score by Stephen Sondheim. At the time, Sondheim may have been surprised if he’d been told that 35 years later, a British techno version of one of the songs from that show (‘Losing My…
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Oct
Last month, I walked through Battersea Park … … to The Latchmere pub. I met my old friends Myles and Pete… … for a spinach and ricotta ravioli and chips (and more chips, walk negated). We went upstairs to Theatre 503, one of London’s fringe venues. The play was about Turkish Cypriots (or were they?), a…
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