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...Thanks to The Book of Mormon and Hamilton, musicals are cool again. Lloyd Webber, the man who globalised the musical, is not....
...Sarah (Shannon Hayes), now an accomplished young lady, her heritage squeezed out of her by corsets and customs, tries to educate her black serving girl (Donna Berlin) in matters of English etiquette and...
...She was energised by the issue even though Hispanics make up less than 6 per cent of Hamilton, her county....
...By comparison, the hit musical Hamilton cost $16m when it debuted in 2015....
...Wolitzer deserves more recognition: she is as talented a storyteller as Donna Tartt, as funny as Jonathan Franzen, but she has her own distinct brilliance, too....
...I would like to say that death came in a heroic guise — that I was facing down a gang of armed muggers or storming the box office in a quest for Hamilton tickets — but, actually, it came as a piece of roast...
...Donna Trinkoff, artistic producer of Amas, an off-Broadway company devoted to promoting diversity in musical theatre, similarly recalls being told by a producer back in the 1990s that “black theatre doesn...
...“We had our elevenses for the first day, which was delicious, but Orson made a terrible fuss, complaining that the food was disgusting, and he really played the prima donna.”...
...US author Donna Tartt’s 784-page novel The Goldfinch is perhaps the most notable omission....
...Not only is Mr Farage a former Tory, having joined the party aged 14, but the campaign is being led by Neil Hamilton....
...A classic example is Donna Edmunds, running in the South East....
...This volume tells of a grand operatic melodrama, though played out as often by general managers and unions as by prima donnas. Too breathless, but even-handed in its judgments....
...… Lucy Kellaway FT columnist Literary people can be snooty about Donna Tartt’s third novel, The Goldfinch (Abacus), yet this is a book written for the reader’s sheer pleasure....
...Hamilton doesn’t quite get inside Best’s head, but then perhaps nobody ever did....
...Tony Barber ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Lord Browne Former chief executive of BP and author of ‘Seven Elements that Have Changed the World’ (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) Donna Leon’s The Jewels...
...(A BBC4 documentary on Ian Hamilton makes Hornby buy Hamilton’s biography of Robert Lowell, which makes him buy Lowell’s Collected Poems etc.)...
...Timestrip jumped 14.9 per cent to 8.62p after it won a contract to supply Hamilton Beach, the US household appliances group, with “smart labels” for air purifiers....
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