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...Lillian Bilocca was written for a site-specific theatre piece by Maxine Peake for Hull’s year as City of Culture....
...Each was unique; and each held surprises, secret catches to open unexpected interiors of tiny mechanical parts — birds that sing, miniature portraits that unfold....
...Huang’s modernistic music finds moments of tenderness, as when Chen and Josephine sing in duet about the moon from the perspective of different continents....
...“Rainbows and waterfalls run through my mind,” he sings in his best-known song “Strawberry Letter 23”, covered in a 1977 hit by the Brothers Johnson....
...The script (by Lillian Hellman) attempts to show the social mix of Manhattan, the way in which the scrappy courtyard and its fire escapes become the theatre of the everyday – in fact it was conceived by...
...He sings “Possente spirto” before a music stand while gyrating in anguish....
...Matt Morgan sings and smirks sweetly as a mock-innocent Frederic. Marc Kudisch swashbuckles con brio, though the Pirate King makes cruel demands on his musical-comedy baritone....
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