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NIGHT MUSIC FOR STEPHEN SONDHEIM

Sondheim had a tell-tale influence on a certain kind of modern songwriter, the piano-playing, storytelling singer/songwriter.
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WHAT HYPHENATED REALLY MEANS is Ellen Foley

that's Ellen volleying Meat's come-ons right back at him in "Paradise By The Dashboard Light."
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PLACE POETS IN POSITION TO HELP US: Write Out Loud

With the public’s help Write Out Loud wants to be equipped to enable, champion, inspire, and connect poets – and organisations and schools - no matter what happens during the pandemic, and continue that once it’s over.´
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EVITA revised, re-shaped, reformed

What a production this was, though, by a small provincial theatre company here on Lanzarote.
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MIME, MIMICRY AND MUSIC by Michael Higgins

no English traditional dancing team had the same Romantic clout, or visible presence, as the black-faced, skirt wearing, clog dancing ‘Coco Nut Dancers’ of Bacup in Lancashire just to the north of Rochdale.
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PIGEON PLUCKERS & PUPPETS ON-LINE

the problem with a virtual choir is that no single member can hear what the others are singing.
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A BALM FOR THE PHILISTINES, OINTMENT FOR THE MIND by Michael Higgins

the upper room of the brightly lit Baum was thronged, or ´thrung´as one says in the dialect, overheated and loud.
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´I´VE BEEN EXPECTING YOU, MR. BOND´. St. Peter at the Gates.

Connery’s genius was to combine menace with a twinkling Celtic wit. His Bond was a loaded weapon. Yet there was a wryness to his performance that told you that both spy and actor were in on the joke.
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THE BAUM REPORT by Michael Higgins

The Wedding At CAMRA paralleled St John’s Gospel somewhat but here a wedding party ends up with no cask ale. Faced with an evening on keg, the local Campaign For Real Ale branch rushes in to save the day for the groom with an eight handpump miracle.