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2021-07-19 08:08:51
Real intimacy: Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady in a concert staging at The Grange Festival
Lerner and Loewe My Fair Lady; Ellie Laugharne, Steven Pacey, Peter Polycarpou, dir: Guy Unsworth, cond: Alfronso Casado Trigo, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; The Grange Festival Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 19 July 2021 Star rating: 4.5 (★★★★½) A concert staging of Lerner and Loewe's 'perfect musical' which combined high musical values with engaging imagination in presentationLerner and Lowe's My Fair Lady is a strange musical, there are few proper dance numbers, the big song and dance pieces being quite limited, and for all the American creators desires to open Bernard Shaw's play up somewhat, the ghost of Pygmalion (written in 1912 and receiving its UK premiere in 1914 with Mrs Patrick Campbell and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree) hangs over the entire enterprise. The result gives the piece a slightly more acerbic quality than many American musicals, to its great benefit. The sense that for all that it is a […]
2020-06-07 10:05:56
A Life On-Line: Damnation in London, Midsummer Nights at the Guildhall School, Masked Balls in Holland Park, Candide in Hampshire
[…] Rob Houchen and Katie Hall were Candide and Cunegonde, both come from a musical theatre background which works best in this work I feel, providing you can find good singing actors like these two. Houchen and Hall's appealingly naive yet musical performances were finely supported by Richard Suart as Voltaire/Pangloss, Rosemary Ashe as the Old Lady, Charles Rice as Maximilian, Kitty Whately as Paquette and Robert Murray demonstrating his versatility by singing everyone else! Alfonso Casado Trigo conducted the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the Grange Festival Chorus, and the staging was directed by Christopher Luscombe. The video is available via the Grange Festival website. Elsewhere on the web, counter-tenor Clint Van Der Linde [whom we saw recently in the title role of Handel's Giulio Cesare with English Touring Opera, see my review] showed what could be done with his family with lovely account of 'Ombra mai fu' from Handel's […]
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