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...Along with plenty of his own work (the yellow Renault HQ in Swindon and a wonderful drawing of an unrealised megastructure for Hammersmith Broadway) there are drawings by Archigram, Jan Kaplicky, Frank Lloyd...
...The New York Post described last week’s “unofficial reopening night” on Broadway, when multiple big shows returned after lockdown, as “a standing ovation . . . occasionally interrupted by a musical”....
...I counted nearly 200 individuals in the credits for Anything Goes, from Sutton Foster herself to carpenters, prop makers and dressers....
...As an organisation in receipt of public subsidy, it can both foster new work and stage existing shows that may be too challenging or costly for commercial theatre to risk....
...Foster won multiple awards when she played Reno Sweeney on Broadway a decade ago and it’s easy to see why....
...They often take on new living artists and foster their careers and then sell their work for the first time. That’s known as the primary market. Then there’s the secondary market....
...Directed by Ryan Murphy of Glee fame, The Prom has been adapted for the Netflix screen by Chad Beguelin and Bob Martin, from the Broadway show they created with composer Matthew Sklar....
...Brian d’Arcy cheerfully squeezes himself into the ogre suit with the ears, and Sutton Foster is radiant, in fact megawatt-bright, as the Princess....
...TV commissions include 2015’s hit BBC series Doctor Foster and the pacy 2018 newspaper drama Press....
...Fortunately song-and-dance men Bob Wallace and Phil Davis happen to be on hand to swap snow business for show business and stage an impromptu Broadway extravaganza in the backyard barn....
...The Woolworth on Broadway and Park Place was the vertical manifestation of an empire made from five-and-dime stores....
...The Oklahoma-based theatre veteran has narrated more than 1,000 titles, from David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest to a five-volume history of California....
...Groban, 37, made his Broadway debut in 2016 and his TV appearances include Glee, The Simpsons, The Office and CSI:NY. What was your childhood or earliest ambition? To work in the theatre....
...With drilling rights on about 6m acres, mostly acquired in the takeovers of Amoco in 1998 and Arco in 2000, BP has one of the largest positions of any oil and gas company in the US, but it has few assets...
...this beneath Nikolai Foster’s staging....
...It later transferred to Broadway, in repertoire with Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land; now, the latter production has travelled back across the Atlantic, and berths in London after a UK tour....
...There is a song in South Pacific that the musical’s Broadway sponsors wanted excised because they felt it cut too close to the social bones of 60 years ago. Everyone knows it....
...Visitors will see Rojas’ installation, “Broadway” (1996-2010)....
...The song being echoed is that great anthem of American resilience “It’s the Hard Knock Life”, from the 1977 Broadway musical Annie....
...Chichester Festival Theatre’s scintillating revival of this great Broadway musical honours this fairytale setting....
...The wonderful Art Deco HQ of London Transport, on Broadway in St James’s, is also up for sale and, although originally envisaged as a hotel, it now looks likely to be turned into super-luxury apartments....
...The fine central quartet – Sophie Thompson, Clare Foster, Peter Polycarpou and Jamie Parker – bring comedy and pathos; witty choreography from Carlos Acosta adds to a winning show....
...There was some consternation when the designs for the new Crossrail station at Ealing Broadway were unveiled. It resembled the entrance to a 1980s out-of-town supermarket....
...For example, the Broadway Mall area in Manhattan could become parkland. Putting a city in nature will mean using only sustainable forms of energy in its construction, maintenance and materials....
...As Foster, the supposed amanuensis of Hirst, Crudup conveyed a precise blend of menace and mirth....
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