… you knew that 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was a Broadway Flop musical before you knew it was the address of the White House. It’s briefly mentioned in The Street Where I Live – the 1978 memoir of writer and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner. The book centres on his three most famous works with composer Frederick…
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Jul
Recently, the Post newspaper group got a letter about the Rubik’s cube toilets in Geraldton and asked me if they could use a picture of them from my blog. I was very happy to say yes. I’d always seen myself as a writer more than anything else. Photos were more something I needed to make…
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Jul
Yesterday, I went to two events at the Perth International Cabaret Festival. The first was a free workshop by Michael Griffiths and Amelia Ryan. I got to perform one of the songs that I sang in The Sound of a Social Climbing Nun (my revisionist take on ‘Edelweiss’). I was a tad nervous because Michael…
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Jun
It means ‘Caliente’ or ‘Hot’. ‘F’ means ‘Frio’ or ‘Cold’.
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Jun
Don’t worry if you don’t. It took me seven trips to get to Café Tortoni, though once there, it was well-attended and well-preserved, and I think they served me a yummy chocolate milkshake.
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Jun
Not too many TV musical productions from 1957 were still being seen (in this case in San Francisco on the stage) in 2016. Then again, not too many musicals had Rodgers and Hammerstein at the helm. Not too many stars of original TV musical productions from 1957 feature in one of TV’s biggest hits in…
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Jun
… is a Lego exhibition in 2017 featuring St Basil’s Cathedral, but I have encountered the world’s largest nation on my travels. At the 1995 Mardi Gras festival in Sydney, I enjoyed Leaving Lenin: a comedy about Welsh teenagers on a trip to post-communist St Petersburg. I saw a Russian play in Brooklyn, New York…
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May
My quest to see all 29 movies at the Spanish Film Festival involved me taking the train to Fremantle to see this low-budget Mexican production with four interconnecting stories about young people. Although the programme called it a comedy, I thought it was too serious for that, even though there were some light and funny…
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May
