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...Vincent Boland is the FT’s Ireland correspondent Favourite thing Higgins spent his first pay cheque on a painting of one of his political mentors — Noel Browne....
...“It is a consequence of globalisation, television and the electronic media,” says Brendan Halligan, a former general secretary of the Labour party....
...Wearing a sleek gold outfit during his Peter Allen numbers at the start of act two, Jackman confirms the truth of Noël Coward’s remark: “No one is more of a ponce than a heterosexual man in lamé.”...
...– as the story’s will-they-won’t-they melodies play on, evoking not just the Noël Coward weepie but Casablanca and pretty much all the rest of the cinema’s suffering-for-love gang....
...All the same, the foul-mouthed tenor of Quinn’s characters hasn’t much altered; no Noël Coward for him. And yet it wouldn’t be fair to reduce him to a single, blaring note....
...When Nicholas Martin’s accomplished, enjoyable production of Noël Coward’s Present Laughter premiered in Boston in 2007, I compared its mood of shammed madness to that of Hamlet....
...He must be the only person working on Broadway who does not care whether or not the tourist trade catches his in-jokes about Schopenhauer or Noël Coward....
...In Hamlet we wonder whether the Prince is disturbed; in Present Laughter, we wonder whether Noel Coward’s alter ego Garry Essendine is acting....
...In Act One, the songs pay homage to Noel Coward. After the interval, the music turns Sondheimian; appropriately, since this is the most pastiche-laden American musical since Follies....
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