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For a limited season and with a little imagination you can go caving under the railway arches of the London Bridge. In the vaults of the Southwark Playhouse designer James Perkins has created a network of ladders and lamps, the air is moist, the sound cavernous, and overhead the passing trains rumble like intermittent rock [...]
By Edward Seckerson | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world - | Wednesday, 29 February 2012 at 11:44 am
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Some things you don’t forget. Like the arrival of this musky-pink covered LP one lazy afternoon in the 1970s. A friend of mine had just returned from New York and all he said was: “You just have to hear this.” We played the opening number: funky, spunky, complex and exciting as hell. The sounds – [...]
By Edward Seckerson | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world - | Sunday, 18 December 2011 at 11:13 am
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“Rivers belong where they can ramble, eagles belong where they can fly” is the refrain that every Broadway aficionado not only reveres but is apt to sing at the drop of a hat. Hell, the song which spawned it – “Corner of the Sky” from Stephen Schwartz’ 1972 Broadway smash hit Pippin – was my [...]
By Edward Seckerson | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world - | Tuesday, 6 December 2011 at 3:23 pm
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Only on the Great White Way – or Schubert Alley, to be precise – might you encounter the names two entertainment megastars emblazoned on opposite marquees at one given time: namely Harry Connick Jr. and Wolverine himself, Hugh Jackman. I caught Connick’s turn in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever on its second [...]
By Edward Seckerson | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world - | Friday, 25 November 2011 at 11:49 am
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By Edward Seckerson | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world - | Wednesday, 26 October 2011 at 10:29 am
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It seemed that Jubilee Hall on Aldeburgh High Street had somehow relocated in the night. On entering the Britten Studio at Snape, a mess of trestle tables and stacking chairs suggested that either the monthly committee meeting had just ended or was shortly to begin. The timely arrival of the bone china tea service and [...]
By Edward Seckerson | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world - | Monday, 24 October 2011 at 11:53 am
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I’ve been sitting on this one for a few days pondering what it is about Jonathan Kent’s Chichester Festival staging of Sondheim and Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd that fails to deliver. Could it be the puzzling suggestion of an update to 1930s London – the bakelite wireless that promises lugubrious organ music before the factory whistle [...]
By Edward Seckerson | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world - | Monday, 10 October 2011 at 4:48 pm
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“Opening Doors” is a number from Stephen Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along” and a useful metaphor to boot. He more than most knows how doors shut more often than they open for the brave and the innovative of musical theatre.
By Edward Seckerson | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world - | Monday, 12 September 2011 at 3:33 pm
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It could be that Howard Goodall will never write another piece as good as The Hired Man but I for one hope that he will keep trying. His Cumbian musical (book Melvyn Bragg) is without question one of the great British models of the genre. I saw it at its first London outing (at the [...]
By Edward Seckerson | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world - | Sunday, 28 August 2011 at 11:30 am
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Millions know her as the redoubtable Hyacinth in Keeping Up Appearances (“I’m very big in Botswana”, she says) but it never ceases to amaze me how few of the great British public know the full extent of Patricia Routledge’s musical theatre career. It’s one of the best kept secrets in showbiz.
In May [...]
By Edward Seckerson | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world - | Sunday, 14 August 2011 at 5:13 pm
