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Wise Children review – Emma Rice's spectacular Angela Carter carnival

The Guardian 19 Oct 2018

Dora and Nora – the central twins of Carter’s book – are Brixton-born septuagenarians, looking back on their lives as showgirls in the tawdry music halls of 1930s London ... Rice’s Wise Children, which sits inventively somewhere between musical and play, is as much about performance as it is about the lives of the twins ... • Wise Children is at the Old Vic, London, until 10 November....

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Judi Dench to star in film version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats - 40 years after injury saw her withdraw from the original production

This is Money 19 Oct 2018

Eliot's Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats, the volume of poems upon which Lloyd Webber based his production, which opened at the original New London Theatre in 1981 ... Andrew Lloyd Webber alongside actress Judi Dench recovering in the Fitzroy Nuffield Hospital, London, after an operation on her achilles tendon, which she injured during rehearsals for Lloyd Webber's musical 'Cats' in 1981....

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Composer Toni’s sound of solitude

Islington Tribune 18 Oct 2018

London has the best of everything but it comes at a price’ ... Its premiere performance at LSO St Luke’s will have a contribution from the north west London community choir “More Than Just A Choir” (whose musical director is David Phelps) which works with people living with mental illness and social isolation ... Toni currently teaches sound technology and music technology at Imperial College London and the London College of Music....

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The Phantom of the Opera returns to TPAC

Nashville Pride 18 Oct 2018

The beloved story and thrilling score – with songs like “Music of the Night,” “All I Ask Of You,” and “Masquerade” – will be performed by a cast and orchestra of 52, making this Phantom one of the largest productions now on tour ... The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart ... The musical opened in London’s West End in 1986, and on Broadway in 1988....

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Katherine Jenkins manages to bag 'the sold out dress of the year' and shows it off as she poses with husband Andrew Levitas at The White Crow premiere

This is Money 18 Oct 2018

The opera singer stunned in it on Thursday as she cosied up to her husband - Andrew Levitas - at the London BFI premiere for Ralph Fiennes-directed biopic, The White Crow ... as she posed with husband Andrew Levitas at The White Crow premiere in London....

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Noel Gallagher scoops two prizes at music Q Awards

The Jakarta Post 18 Oct 2018

British rocker Noel Gallagher triumphed at the Q Awards in London on Wednesday, scooping two prizes at the annual ceremony hosted by UK music magazine Q ... won Q Best Solo Artist and Q Outstanding Contribution To Music at the awards which were established in 1990....

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Deaf Rave allows people who can’t hear to go out clubbing

Metro UK 18 Oct 2018

Music lover Troi Lee founded Deaf Rave in 2003, a quarterly event in London designed specifically for deaf clubbers ... Now in its 15th year, the event has allowed deaf people to enjoy a night out, meet other people, and experience music in a way that mainstream nightclubs don’t allow ... ‘I’ve always said that just because people are deaf, doesn’t mean they can’t enjoy music,’ founder Troi told Metro.co.uk....

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Government cuts causing appalling erosion in arts education, report claims

Belfast Telegraph 18 Oct 2018

It was also found that children are far more likely to have access to drama if they live in London or the South East, or go to a fee-paying school. A study commissioned by the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (Lamda) shows large disparities between regions, and between fee-paying and non-fee-paying schools, when it comes to accessing dramatic arts....

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Veteran Music Executives Discuss Where Their Careers Were In Their 20s, 30s and 40s

Billboard 18 Oct 2018

Billboard has revealed its annual 40 Under 40 list of music executives, which highlights young talent across the industry ... Chairman, Cherrytree Music Company; Manager (Sting)Martin KierszenbaumMike Pont/FilmMagic ... Twenty years later, we are in New York, Nashville, Los Angeles, and London, and have an incredible team of 142 agents and executives -- a remarkable achievement from an amazing family of music loving, like-minded individuals....

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Callaghan gets cinematic on new album

The Herald Palladium 18 Oct 2018

31 following a busy summer of touring, which included performances at the Barclaycard British Summer Time festival in Hyde Park, London, on the same bill as Paul Simon and James Taylor, as well as the Telluride Americana Music Festival in Colorado ... A I try to take inspiration from the place that I’m in and also the people that I am working with and the musical background and all of that....

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Baby injured after shots fired at Birmingham homes

The Independent 18 Oct 2018

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex meeting 'King George' and the cast at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London after attending a gala performance of the musical Hamilton, in support of Sentebale ... The Duke and Duchess of Sussex meeting 'King George' and the cast at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London after attending a gala performance of the musical Hamilton, in support of Sentebale....

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Manchester police officer mown down by van driver, prompting major manhunt

The Independent 18 Oct 2018

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Lucky (for fans) to be in West Jefferson: Riding the tracks of their newest studio ...

Watauga Democrat 18 Oct 2018

That record went double platinum (2 million copies sold) and helped earn the band the 1993 Best New Group at the American Country Music Awards ... … When he was so big, probably the biggest thing in country music, we were over in London, England, and somebody stopped Willie and asked him for an autograph and next thing you knew there’s just a mob around him....

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