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...(The Nation) — Why teenagers love LinkedIn (The Cut) — Awareness of death (Macmillan Learning) — Press the button for a random web toy or musical doodah (Sharkle.com)...
...That understanding sinks without trace into the swampy bog of this musical adaptation....
...The warm, experimental record is essentially his musical toy box made manifest. He performed solo at last year’s Glastonbury on the far-flung Park stage....
...The Nutcracker’s ballerina may spend act one in her dressing room while the Stahlbaums’ guests do their Grossvater dance and the mice and toy soldiers do battle in the drawing room, but her party piece is...
...Walter and his friends play with their toy soldiers and ruminate, in their way, on being part of history. “What will this war be called when it’s over?” they wonder....
...Dressed in white, they toy with blood-red balls of wool, fretting over their prospects under the victorious Greeks....
...Lee toys with her audience like a cat with a mouse; it ridicules for too long before it strikes....
...It is invigorating to hear Dove, 63, describe his work as though it were a new toy....
...Designed to accommodate anything from lavish musicals to community theatre, intimate gigs to Shakespeare, the cube contains three theatres arranged in an L-shape with dozens of permutations of stage arrangement...
...Synthesisers and guitar pedals (as well as all the magic toys in recording studios) changed everything....
...Childlike cartoons are repurposed to sinister ends, like the band’s logo of a toy bear bristling with teeth....
...and straight lines, solids and voids, “Still Life (Musical Instruments)”....
...But his attempts to showcase his versatility — from the musical Rhinestone to the comedy Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot — were mercilessly panned. Cliffhanger was a return to form....
...The scene around them is set by a white Yamaha grand piano, Memphis side tables and a giant Pink Panther soft toy....
...The ESD1 caters to my musical needs, with a keyboard shelf and space for speakers, and it rises to standing height at the touch of a button....
...Themes are freely developed, but with the trio acting as one, moods are sustained, the detail is finely wrought and musical references avoid pastiche....
...What started as a side-hustle – and Allen is an inveterate side-hustler (chat-show host, Chanel model, sex-toy tycoon) – has become, at least for now, her primary professional focus....
...I am known as the musical troglodyte in our family, but my husband Baz [Luhrmann] and his assistant introduced me to Lizzo, and I’ve become an aficionado....
...This was a musical performance that kept the audience gripped by the narrative, exactly what the production lacked....
...Her fans all over the world have bought thousands of sex toys moulded on her vagina. This is my first proper interview with a porn star....
...“It used to be, ‘Well, it’s Barry’s daughter, she’ll throw her toys out of the pram.’ I remember hearing someone say that once and I just fronted up to them....
...Toy theatre flats and exquisite gauzes make for magical, free-flowing transformations from reality to fantasy (and back again)....
...The mockery of the preening military man might be overt, but why does one character always carry around a toy goose?...
...Bounding around next to me is a coiffed poodle named Stormy, gnawing on Lulu, his favourite toy sheep. We are all waiting for Toni Holt Kramer to come down the marbled stairway....
...They are still active, despite periodic disputes about musical direction and money....
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