The Finborough Theatre has an interesting remit; half focused on new writing¹ and half on staging "forgotten classics." The current show is in the latter category: A Rodgers and Hammerstein musical that started life as a film, but only ended up on stage in the US in the 1990s and has never been staged in Europe before. With a cast of 14 - which pretinama might be interested to know includes...

vanessaw and I went to King Lear at the Young Vic last night; we were going to go with pretinama and his other half but it turned out they couldn't make it. Luckily at the last minute Ian from the coffee posses and Vanessa's friend Marta were able to come along in their place. Rupert Goold's production was slated by the critics when it first opened in Liverpool, but has since been...