Hints and tips:
...Madeleine offers an alibi: “Any of those [Richard Rodgers] musicals, I won’t sit next to him, because he just cries all the way through them!”...
...My first guest would be Donna Leon, whose Inspector Brunetti novels contrast grisly Venetian crimes with glorious Italian cuisine....
...There were two dropouts: soprano Joan Rodgers, who had been sworn to silence by her throat specialist, and Florian Boesch’s concert attire, which was stranded, with the rest of his luggage, in Singapore....
...She made much of prima-donna poses, both vocal and physical, adding new meaning to the old concept of Sprechgesang....
...of divas such as Donna Summer....
..., by which time Rodgers had a new partner, Oscar Hammerstein....
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