#haydn cox

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Re-review: Anything Goes 2022, Barbican

Re-review: Anything Goes 2022, Barbican

Less of a review and more of a list of things I loved about going back to see Anything Goes again at the Barbican “You really know how to fill a girdle” I didn’t need much prodding to go and see Anything Goes again, especially when second row tickets for £20 were in the offing but it was also great to see the show from a different angle. With a company and stage of this size, the expansiveness of…

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#Alexandra Wright #Anna McGarahan #Billie-Kay #Bonnie Langford #Carl Au #Carly Mercedes Dyer #Christopher Short #Clive Hayward #Cornelius Clarke #David Kar-Hing Lee #Denis Lawson #Eamonn Cox #Emily Ormiston #Eu Jin Hwang #Gabrielle Cocca #Gary Wilmot #George Beet #Haydn Oakley #Jack Wilcox #Jacob Fisher #Jessica Buckby #Josh Barnett #Kerry Ellis #Maddie Harper #Natalie Chua #Nicole-Lily Baisden #Perry O&039;Dea #Robert Lindsay #Sammy Kelly #Samuel Edwards

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Burke’s Law -  List of Guest Stars

The Special Guest Stars of “Burke’s Law” read like a Who’s Who list of Hollywood of the era.  Many of the appearances, however, were no more than one scene cameos.  This is as complete a list ever compiled of all those who even made the briefest of appearances on the series.  

Beverly Adams, Nick Adams, Stanley Adams, Eddie Albert, Mabel Albertson, Lola Albright, Elizabeth Allen, June Allyson, Don Ameche, Michael Ansara, Army Archerd, Phil Arnold, Mary Astor, Frankie Avalon, Hy Averback, Jim Backus, Betty Barry, Susan Bay, Ed Begley, William Bendix, Joan Bennett, Edgar Bergen, Shelley Berman, Herschel Bernardi, Ken Berry, Lyle Bettger, Robert Bice, Theodore Bikel, Janet Blair, Madge Blake, Joan Blondell, Ann Blyth, Carl Boehm, Peter Bourne, Rosemarie Bowe, Eddie Bracken, Steve Brodie, Jan Brooks, Dorian Brown, Bobby Buntrock, Edd Byrnes, Corinne Calvet, Rory Calhoun, Pepe Callahan, Rod Cameron, Macdonald Carey, Hoagy Carmichael, Richard Carlson, Jack Carter, Steve Carruthers, Marianna Case, Seymour Cassel, John Cassavetes, Tom Cassidy, Joan Caulfield, Barrie Chase, Eduardo Ciannelli, Dane Clark, Dick Clark, Steve Cochran, Hans Conried, Jackie Coogan, Gladys Cooper, Henry Corden, Wendell Corey, Hazel Court, Wally Cox, Jeanne Crain, Susanne Cramer, Les Crane, Broderick Crawford, Suzanne Cupito, Arlene Dahl, Vic Dana, Jane Darwell, Sammy Davis Jr., Linda Darnell, Dennis Day, Laraine Day, Yvonne DeCarlo, Gloria De Haven, William Demarest, Andy Devine, Richard Devon, Billy De Wolfe, Don Diamond, Diana Dors, Joanne Dru, Paul Dubov, Howard Duff, Dan Duryea, Robert Easton, Barbara Eden, John Ericson, Leif Erickson, Tom Ewell, Nanette Fabray, Felicia Farr, Sharon Farrell, Herbie Faye, Fritz Feld, Susan Flannery, James Flavin, Rhonda Fleming, Nina Foch, Steve Forrest, Linda Foster, Byron Foulger, Eddie Foy Jr., Anne Francis, David Fresco, Annette Funicello, Eva Gabor, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Reginald Gardiner, Nancy Gates, Lisa Gaye, Sandra Giles, Mark Goddard, Thomas Gomez, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Sandra Gould, Wilton Graff, Gloria Grahame, Shelby Grant, Jane Greer, Virginia Grey, Tammy Grimes, Richard Hale, Jack Haley, George Hamilton, Ann Harding, Joy Harmon, Phil Harris, Stacy Harris, Dee Hartford, June Havoc, Jill Haworth, Richard Haydn, Louis Hayward, Hugh Hefner, Anne Helm, Percy Helton, Irene Hervey, Joe Higgins, Marianna Hill, Bern Hoffman, Jonathan Hole, Celeste Holm, Charlene Holt, Oscar Homolka, Barbara Horne, Edward Everett Horton, Breena Howard, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Arthur Hunnicutt, Tab Hunter, Joan Huntington, Josephine Hutchinson, Betty Hutton, Gunilla Hutton, Martha Hyer, Diana Hyland, Marty Ingels, John Ireland, Mako Iwamatsu, Joyce Jameson, Glynis Johns, I. Stanford Jolley, Carolyn Jones, Dean Jones, Spike Jones, Victor Jory, Jackie Joseph, Stubby Kaye, Monica Keating, Buster Keaton, Cecil Kellaway, Claire Kelly, Patsy Kelly, Kathy Kersh, Eartha Kitt, Nancy Kovack, Fred Krone, Lou Krugman, Frankie Laine, Fernando Lamas, Dorothy Lamour, Elsa Lanchester, Abbe Lane, Charles Lane, Lauren Lane, Harry Lauter, Norman Leavitt, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ruta Lee, Teri Lee, Peter Leeds, Margaret Leighton, Sheldon Leonard, Art Lewis, Buddy Lewis, Dave Loring, Joanne Ludden,  Ida Lupino, Tina Louise, Paul Lynde, Diana Lynn, James MacArthur, Gisele MacKenzie, Diane McBain, Kevin McCarthy, Bill McClean, Stephen McNally, Elizabeth MacRae, Jayne Mansfield, Hal March, Shary Marshall, Dewey Martin, Marlyn Mason, Hedley Mattingly, Marilyn Maxwell, Virginia Mayo, Patricia Medina, Troy Melton, Burgess Meredith, Una Merkel, Dina Merrill, Torben Meyer, Barbara Michaels, Robert Middleton, Vera Miles, Sal Mineo, Mary Ann Mobley, Alan Mowbray, Ricardo Montalbán, Elizabeth Montgomery, Ralph Moody, Alvy Moore, Terry Moore, Agnes Moorehead, Anne Morell, Rita Moreno, Byron Morrow, Jan Murray, Ken Murray, George Nader, J. Carrol Naish, Bek Nelson, Gene Nelson, David Niven, Chris Noel, Kathleen Nolan, Sheree North, Louis Nye, Arthur O'Connell, Quinn O'Hara, Susan Oliver, Debra Paget, Janis Paige, Nestor Paiva, Luciana Paluzzi, Julie Parrish, Fess Parker, Suzy Parker, Bert Parks, Harvey Parry, Hank Patterson, Joan Patrick, Nehemiah Persoff, Walter Pidgeon, Zasu Pitts, Edward Platt, Juliet Prowse, Eddie Quillan, Louis Quinn, Basil Rathbone, Aldo Ray, Martha Raye, Gene Raymond, Peggy Rea, Philip Reed, Carl Reiner, Stafford Repp, Paul Rhone, Paul Richards, Don Rickles, Will Rogers Jr., Ruth Roman, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Gena Rowlands, Charlie Ruggles, Janice Rule, Soupy Sales, Hugh Sanders, Tura Satana, Telly Savalas, John Saxon, Lizabeth Scott, Lisa Seagram, Pilar Seurat, William Shatner, Karen Sharpe, James Shigeta, Nina Shipman, Susan Silo, Johnny Silver, Nancy Sinatra, The Smothers Brothers, Joanie Sommers, Joan Staley, Jan Sterling, Elaine Stewart, Jill St. John, Dean Stockwell, Gale Storm, Susan Strasberg, Inger Stratton, Amzie Strickland, Gil Stuart, Grady Sutton, Kay Sutton, Gloria Swanson, Russ Tamblyn. Don Taylor, Dub Taylor, Vaughn Taylor, Irene Tedrow, Terry-Thomas, Ginny Tiu, Dan Tobin, Forrest Tucker, Tom Tully, Jim Turley, Lurene Tuttle, Ann Tyrrell, Miyoshi Umeki, Mamie van Doren, Deborah Walley, Sandra Warner, David Wayne, Ray Weaver, Lennie Weinrib, Dawn Wells, Delores Wells, Rebecca Welles, Jack Weston, David White, James Whitmore, Michael Wilding, Annazette Williams, Dave Willock, Chill Wills, Marie Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Sandra Wirth, Ed Wynn, Keenan Wynn, Dana Wynter, Celeste Yarnall, Francine York.

#Burke's Law #TV #Special Guest Stars in Alphabetical Order

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Happy Birthday Scottish operatic soprano Isobel Buchanan.

Buchanan was born in 1954 in Glasgow,and won a scholarship to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, where in 1974, she was awarded with Student of the Year prize. She also won the Governor’s Recital Prize that same year.

In 1975 she auditioned for Richard Bonynge and Joan Sutherland and was offered a three year contract with the Australian Opera. Her professional debut was in January 1976, singing the role of Pamina in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, one she was to repeat many times throughout the world.

She made her British debut at Glyndebourne in 1978, again singing Pamina, in the Cox/Hockney production and in 1981 she sang The Countess in Peter Hall’s production of The Marriage of Figaro, a role repeated for the 50th Anniversary of the company in 1984 with Bernard Haitink conducting.

1978 saw her as Micaela at the Vienna State Opera in the legendary production by Franco Zefirelli, with Domingo, Obratsova and Mazurok. Conducted by Carlos Kleiber, the performance was broadcast live throughout Europe and released on CD and DVD.

Isobel’s Covent Garden debut was in Parsifal, conducted by Solti. Among other roles, she went on to sing Sophie in Werther, with Alfredo Kraus and Teresa Berganza, later recording the opera with Jose Carreras and Frederica von Stade, Sir Colin Davis conducting. She has appeared in opera houses in Cologne, Paris, Munich, Santa Fe, Brussels,Hamburg,Sydney, Wellington Chicago (with Pavarotti and Bergonzi) and Monte Carlo (with Raimondi).

She has also appeared with all the major British orchestras and has collaborated with many of the world’s leading conductors, including Solti, Haitink, Andrew Davis, Colin Davis, Celibidache, Pritchard, Mariner, Kleiber and Menuhin.

Isobel has made numerous recordings and in 1981 the BBC made a documentary, La Belle Isobel, of her career up to that time. She has had her own television series and has also appeared on such programmes as Face the Music and The Michael Parkinson Show.

After bringing up her two daughters, Isobel has recently resumed her career singing recitals with Eugene Asti and Malcolm Martineau at St John’s, Smith Square, as well as performing Sheherezade with the South Bank Sinfonia and, most recently, Haydn with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Walton’s Façade with Jason Thornton and the Bath Phil at Longleat.

She also teaches voice privately, is a regular tutor for the Samling Foundation, gives master classes and workshops throughout the UK and teaches at the Guildhall School as a visiting professor.

I’m quite biased because this was my mums favourite Burns song, just listen to the clarity in her voice, Perfect….

#scotland #scottish #singer #opera singer #soprano #glasgow #glaswegian #happy birhtday #Youtube

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Birthdays 3.31

Beer Birthdays

Frank Hahne (1856)

David Buhler (1959)

Five Favorite Birthdays

William Daniels; actor (1927)

Nikolai Gogol; Russian writer (1809)

Shirley Jones; actor (1934)

Ewan McGregor; actor (1971)

Christopher Walken; actor (1943)

Famous Birthdays

Herb Alpert; bandleader (1935)

Johann Sebastian Bach; composer (1685)

Robert Bunsen; German chemist (1811)

Leo Buscaglia; writer (1925)

Richard Chamberlain; actor (1934)

Cesar Chavez; labor leader (1927)

Liz Clairborne; fashion designer (1929)

Tony Cox; actor (1958)

René Descartes; French philosopher (1596)

Edward Fitzgerald; writer (1809)

John Fowles; English writer (1926)

Barney Frank; politician (1940)

Arthur Godfrey; television host (1903)

Al Gore; politician, US Vice-President (1948)

Franz Haydn; composer (1732)

Gordie Howe; Detroit Red Wings RW (1928)

John Jakes; writer (1932)

Jack Johnson; boxer (1878)

Gabe Kaplan; actor, comedian (1945)

Andrew Lang; Scottish writer (1844)

Ed Marinaro; actor, Minnesota Vikings RB (1950)

Marc McClure; actor (1957)

Paul Mercurio; Australian actor, dancer (1963)

Ashton Moore; porn actor (1976)

Henry Morgan; actor (1915)

Al Nichol; rock musician (1946)

Red Norvo; jazz vibraphonist (1908)

Octavio Paz; Mexican writer (1914)

Rhea Perlman; actor (1948)

Judith Rossner; writer (1935)

Angus Young; rock guitarist (1955)

#Birthdays

[sarahlancashire]

i realised that on my last reblog i forgot some things! also i was forced to omit a few things bc i ran out of tag space oops ("nobody cares, lamorna" - shut up i need to document this correctly)

so let's explain:

saw belinda lang in present laughter (also saw serena evans in that!! and david from cold feet robert bathurst, but he's less important to me); the reluctant debutante (also saw jane asher in it!!); and single spies

old times: met kristin scott thomas, saw lia williams + rufus sewell

the audience: met helen mirren + haydn gwynne (this was also the day when i chased jenny agutter accidentally, and i saw anne reid + stephen tompkinson going through the stage door)

passion play: met sam bond, zoe wanamaker, and lyndsey marshal (she wasn't in the play, she was just there with zoe), saw owen teale

the weir: saw dervla kirwan, met ardal o'hanlon + brian cox

private lives: met anna chancellor

the importance of being earnest: met cherie lunghi + nigel havers

relatively speaking (i went to an ayckbourn play for felicity. this is true love and dedication) met felicity kendal

the national theatre masterclasses: went to penelope wilton + david hare's one, saw them (saw penelope out front beforehand!!), met penelope afterwards

also went to amelia bullmore's masterclass, along w lots of my lovely mutuals 💖; we all met her and talked to her at length

kiss me, kate: saw hannah waddingham

guys and dolls: saw sophie thompson, and phyllida law (her + emma's mother) was in the audience

a damsel in distress: saw summer strallen

mrs. pat: saw penelope keith

oklahoma!: saw josie lawrence (also saw her + paul merton at the comedy store one time)

me and my girl: saw caroline quentin, also matt lucas

fleetwood mac: i've seen them live twice, once with chris mcvie

once there was an event that a choir my mum + i used to be in were invited to sing at, and a lot of the other performers / organisers were famous people: julie graham was one of the organisers, so i saw her, alison moyet was performing (i'd already been to one of her concerts, but not met her yet), so i met her then (she hugged me!!!!) and emma kennedy was there bc she and alf are best friends so i stood near her awkwardly; and caitlin moran was also a speaker so i saw her (backstage and onstage) too; and my mum spoke to her

my mum once won tickets to see a bbc show being filmed, and it happened to be upstart crow (you don't choose what you see, you just get allocated something by the bbc people), so we were on set with david mitchell, liza tarbuck, gemma whelan

i've told the story of being caught in the fire w the new tricks actors + sarah beeny SO many times, but i will tell it again if anyone else wants to hear it

comedians/-ennes i've seen live: ed byrne (twice), alan davies, omid djalili, rich hall (i wasn't that keen on seeing omid or rich but my mum made us all go with her and they were better than i'd expected them to be), zoe lyons, tim vine

and finally: i live in the same town as dave benson phillips (of get your own back, british blue's clues, various other children's television), and he used to be (might still be, for all i know) the next door neighbour of a family friend, so i met him at a party at their house once as a child

#the amount of these stories that involve my mum is embarrassing #she was even the reason i ended up accidentally chasing jenny #my mum is my best friend i guess #personal #about me

[musicaenlavida]

Harry Styles

¿Quién es Harry Styles?

Harry Edward Styles, conocido artísticamente como Harry Styles, es un cantante, compositor y actor británico, integrante de One Direction. Nació en Redditch, Worcestershire, Inglaterra, el 1 de febrero de 1994.

Su disco debut como solista lleva por nombre "Harry Styles", lanzado al mercado el 12 de mayo de 2017. Su primer sencillo fue el tema Sign of The Times. 

Niñez, Juventud y Vida Familiar de Harry Styles

Es hijo de Des Styles y Anne Cox, y hermano menor de Gemma Styles. Los padres de Harry se divorciaron cuando él tenía solo siete años y su madre ha comentado que siempre lo ha apoyado en todo. Estudió en la Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School, donde formó su propia banda llamada White Eskimo junto a sus amigos Haydn Morris, Nick Clough y Will Sweeney. En 2009, participaron en la "Batalla de Bandas" y resultaron ganadores. También trabajó en una panadería durante un tiempo. 

Inicios de Harry Styles en la Música

Aunque siempre mostró interés por la música, ha dicho que también le hubiese gustado ser abogado o fisioterapeuta. Durante un tiempo, tuvo un trabajo de medio tiempo en una panadería de Cheshire.

En 2010, Harry audicionó para The X Factor con la canción Isn't She Lovely de Stevie Wonder

Tras ser aceptado en la competición, la jueza Nicole Scherzinger sugirió que Harry formase parte de un grupo llamado One Direction junto con Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Liam Payne y Louis Tomlinson. La creación del grupo se hizo realidad y los cinco fueron apadrinados por Simon Cowell. La agrupación llegó a la final del programa y quedaron en el tercer lugar. Aunque no ganaron, Cowell pagó un contrato para que firmasen con el sello discográfico Syco.

En su carrera con One Direction, ha compuesto temas como Taken, Everything About You, Same Mistakes, Back for You y Summer Love, pertenecientes a los álbumes Up All Night y Take Me Home.

También co-escribió los temas "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" y "Stockholm Syndrome" para el álbum Four, así como las canciones Hey Angel, Perfect, If I Could Fly y Olivia, del disco Made in the A.M., lanzado en 2015. Ha compuesto canciones para artistas como Ariana Grande, Meghan Trainor, Kodaline y Augustana.

Tras el anuncio de que One Direction se tomaría un descanso, Harry Styles fue anunciado como parte del elenco de la nueva película de Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk. La filmación comenzó el 23 de mayo de 2016 y su estreno se espera para julio de 2017.

El 26 de marzo de 2017 Styles lanzó un spot publicitario en la televisión británica, anunciando el lanzamiento de lo que será su primer álbum como solista, cuyo primer sencillo es la canción Sign Of The Times.

Para promocionar su nuevo disco, realizará un tour que comenzará el 19 de septiembre en The Manosic de San Francisco. Tokyo será la última ciudad que Styles visite con fecha en el 12 de agosto.

#celebrities #pop music #musicians #harry styles

[theholybenity]

Does anybody have a Dear Evan Hansen West End bootleg with Sam Tutty or do you know someone who does? I'm willing to trade. I would be so grateful!

#west end #deh west end #deh #dear evan hansen #sam tutty #nicole raquel dennis #lucy anderson #jack loxton #rupert young #lauren ward #marcus harman #rebecca mckinnis #doug colling #david breeds #haydn cox #courtney stapleton #alex thomas smith

[milliondollarbaby87]

Anything Goes (West End) Review

Anything Goes (West End) Review

Date: Saturday 31st July (7:30pm) Venue: Barbican Theatre CastSutton Foster – Reno SweeneyRobert Lindsay – Moonface MartinFelicity Kendal – Evangeline HarcourtGary Wilmot – Elisha WhitneySamuel Edwards – Billy CrockerNicole-Lily Baisden – Hope HarcourtCarly Mercedes Dyer – ErmaHaydn Oakley – Lord Evelyn OakleighJon Chew – JohnClive Hayward – Ship’s CaptainGraham MacDuff – Ship’s PurserAlistair…

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#2021 #Alexandra Wright #Alistair So #Anything Goes #Barbican Theatre #Carly Mercedes Dyer #Charlene Ford #Clive Hayward #Eamonn Cox #Emily Ormiston #Felicity Kendal #Frances Dee #Gabrielle Cocca #Gary Wilmot #George Beet #Georgie Ashford #Graham MacDuff #Haydn Oakley #Jack Wilcox #Jon Chew #Jordan Crouch #Liam Wrate #London #Maddie Harper #Marc Akinfolarin #Michael Lin #Musical #Musical Theatre #Natalie Chua #Nicole-Lily Baisden

[ao3feed-larry]

Soul Imprint [Larry Stylinson]

by C_C_Roux

Están unidos.

Ni siquiera la muerte los puede separar, porque sus almas están marcadas para encontrarse en sus siguientes vidas.

Harry, siendo un vampiro, ha estado vagando en la tierra los suficientes años para encontrarse una y otra vez con su primer y único amor: Louis Tomlinson.

Sin embargo, algo es diferente ahora.

Words: 4797, Chapters: 1/37, Language: Español

Fandoms: One Direction, Larry Stylinson - Fandom, Harry Styles - Fandom, Louis Tomlinson - Fandom

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Luke Hemmings, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Nick Clough, Xander Ritz, Oli Wright, Niall Horan, Eleanor Calder, Lottie Tomlinson, Anne Cox, Demond Styles, Gemma Styles, Camille Rowe, Calum Hood, Will Sweeny, Haydn Morris, Ashton Irwin, Michael Clifford, Sam Fender, Mark Tomlinson, Jay Tomlinson

Relationships: Larry Stylinson, larry - Relationship, Ziam Palik, Ziam - Relationship, Elounor - Relationship

Additional Tags: Sex, Sexo, Erotica, Erotic, soft, Romance, Vampiros, Reencarnación, Almas gemelas, hechizo, Maldición, Drama, Romance Gay, LGBT+, sobrenatural, Soul Imprint, hombres lobo

via AO3 works tagged 'Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson' https://ift.tt/3h335fH

#author #larry stylinson #larry fic #ao3 feed larry #Soul Imprint [Larry Stylinson] #<p>by <a rel= href

[dearevanhansenofficial]

10 QUESTIONS WITH DEAR EVAN HANSEN LONDON’S U/S CONNOR MURPHY, JARED KLEINMAN—HAYDN COX

Today’s going to be a good day and here’s why...because Haydn always makes his bed first thing in the morning, starting the day on a positive note. His uplifting outlook on life may be a result of being born with multicoloured hair, or it could be from continuously laughing at viral memes online. Get to know more about him in the interview below.

1.) Where can people follow you on social media?

Instagram: @haydniam Twitter: @haydniam

2.) Where did you grow up?

I grew up in Southend On Sea

3.) What’s your favourite line / lyric from DEAR EVAN HANSEN?

My favourite lyric from the show at the moment is, “If you can somehow keep them thinking of me, and make me more than an abandoned memory well that means we matter too, it means someone will see that you are there.”

4.) What’s the first show you saw (West End, Tour, Broadway, etc.)?

Beauty and The Beast when I was 5....I cried apparently!

5.) What are you currently binge-watching on Netflix?

“True Blood”...but on Google Play, sorry Netflix!

6.) What’s your favourite app and why?

My favourite app is YouTube because memes are love, memes are life.

7.) What’s your favourite song to sing in the shower?

My newest single (coming soon)...“Pumped Up Kicks” by Foster The People is another regular shower remix!

8.) What’s your go-to London spot?

M&M World in Leicester Square.

9.) What’s a hidden talent you have that people might not know about?

I do a fierce Chewbacca noise...but don't look at me when I do it... it's not pretty.

10.) What’s the best advice you’ve ever been given?

“First thing to do when you wake up is make the bed so you have a good start to the day. And when making a to-do/task list, put tasks on there that you've already completed so you feel more motivated to finish the list.” Top tip!

#dear evan hansen #DEHLondon #DEHWestEnd #10Questions

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latest DEH West End DEBUT audios:

Hannah Lindsey Heidi debut (with Marcus Evan)

Haydn Cox Connor debut (with Marcus Evan)

Hannah Lindsey Heidi debut (with Marcus Evan)

Alex Thomas-Smith Jared debut

James Winter Larry debut

note: all my masters with Marcus in are traded for personal use only (so, only traded through myself, not to be further traded or posted on social media) this is an agreement that will not change.

Alex and James debut masters are NFT through master only until May 30th

#dear evan hansen audio #dear evan hansen #deh #deh audio #deh west end #musicals #boots #deh boot #bootlegs #audios

[oughttobeclowns]

Review: Anything Goes 2022, Barbican

Review: @AnythingGUK @BarbicanCentre Not enough @bonnie_langford (when is there ever...?) but a hugely enjoyable bit of much needed escapist entertainment with a superlative Kerry Ellis

My favourite show of 2021 returns with added Bonnie Langford! And an excellent Kerry Ellis now at the helm of Anything Goes at the Barbican “Times have changed And we’ve often rewound the clock” There’s little surprise really that several venues turned to classic musical theatre last year as a respite from the time that had gone before. But saying you’ll put on a crowdpleaser and actually putting…

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#Alexandra Wright #Anna McGarahan #Billie-Kay #Bonnie Langford #Carl Au #Carly Mercedes Dyer #Christopher Short #Clive Hayward #Cornelius Clarke #David Kar-Hing Lee #Denis Lawson #Eamonn Cox #Emily Ormiston #Eu Jin Hwang #Gabrielle Cocca #Gary Wilmot #George Beet #Haydn Oakley #Jack Wilcox #Jacob Fisher #Jessica Buckby #Josh Barnett #Kerry Ellis #Maddie Harper #Natalie Chua #Nicole-Lily Baisden #Perry O&039;Dea #Robert Lindsay #Sammy Kelly #Samuel Edwards

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Hidden Histories 2022

February - March 2022, Project Lead with Manchester Camerata

“It doesn’t matter where you’re from or where your backgrounds are from, or the colour of your skin or ethnicity…if you like music, then it’s a great starting point.” - Student

Hidden Histories is a creative composition project that explores more unknown composers at the times when famous figures like Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven were around. The project will explore composers who’ve been overlooked due to their gender, skin colour, or sexuality, and also draw inspiration from their music in order to create brand new music.

Workshops were be led by Lavender Rodriguez, a composer and multi-instrumentalist studying composition at the RNCM who has composed for many ensembles including members of the NYO and RNCM Chamber choir. Joining her were two of Manchester Camerata’s very own musicians— horn player Jenny Cox, and bassoonist Sarah Nixon.

This is the second year of the project running and this year, we worked together with Edsential Cheshire East Music Hub to deliver the projects in 4 schools— Ellesmere Port Catholic High School, Upton-by-Chester High School, Tarporley High School, and Bishop Heber High School— with a range of pupils from Year 8 to Year 11.

"I think the impact has been phenomenal. I think it’s boosted their confidence a great deal. It's allowed them to see that they can compose because I think for a lot of students, composition is either a can or can't do it, and it's the same in a way for a lot of musicians. Breaking down those elements has actually reassured them that there's no necessarily a right or wrong answer, but their ideas can all be incorporated and further developed. It has boosted their confidence" - Head of Music

"I feel kind of overwhelmed cause I felt like I was in an actual professional concert, and to know that I and other students helped to write that is just…it just feels…it's an amazing feeling really." - Student

At the end of the series of workshops, a cumulative concert was held. Lavender took the musical ideas from all the students and arranged them into a piece for each school. It was then premiered by Manchester Camerata musicians at the concert.

"I've loved it in terms of I never had anything like this before. Growing up, I didn't think composition was a viable career, I didn't think people like me could go into that. A lot of the syllabuses and people that you see, and programmes are very much white male dominated... So, I think that essentially the importance of it is one, essentially shedding light on people that didn't get those stories told whilst they were alive, but also reminding the kids that whoever they are, that's valid and they're accepted, and they can do whatever they want and the sky's the limit essentially. So, although it's music-based, it's actually just a lesson just for life and hopefully they can take that confidence wherever they go." - Lavender Rodriguez, Composer

As featured on The Voice, Quays Life, AAH! Magazine.

In partnership with Edsential Musical Routes, with funding from the Department for Education and Arts Council England

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Happy Birthday Scottish operatic soprano Isobel Buchanan.

Buchanan was born in 1954 in Glasgow,and won a scholarship to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, where in 1974, she was awarded with Student of the Year prize. She also won the Governor's Recital Prize that same year.

In 1975 she auditioned for Richard Bonynge and Joan Sutherland and was offered a three year contract with the Australian Opera. Her professional debut was in January 1976, singing the role of Pamina in Mozart's The Magic Flute, one she was to repeat many times throughout the world.

She made her British debut at Glyndebourne in 1978, again singing Pamina, in the Cox/Hockney production and in 1981 she sang The Countess in Peter Hall's production of The Marriage of Figaro, a role repeated for the 50th Anniversary of the company in 1984 with Bernard Haitink conducting.

1978 saw her as Micaela at the Vienna State Opera in the legendary production by Franco Zefirelli, with Domingo, Obratsova and Mazurok. Conducted by Carlos Kleiber, the performance was broadcast live throughout Europe and has recently been released on CD and DVD. Isobel's Covent Garden debut was in Parsifal, conducted by Solti. Among other roles, she went on to sing Sophie in Werther, with Alfredo Kraus and Teresa Berganza, later recording the opera with Jose Carreras and Frederica von Stade, Sir Colin Davis conducting. She has appeared in opera houses in Cologne, Paris, Munich, Santa Fe, Brussels,Hamburg,Sydney, Wellington Chicago (with Pavarotti and Bergonzi) and Monte Carlo (with Raimondi).

She has also appeared with all the major British orchestras and has collaborated with many of the world's leading conductors, including Solti, Haitink, Andrew Davis, Colin Davis, Celibidache, Pritchard, Mariner, Kleiber and Menuhin.

Isobel has made numerous recordings and in 1981 the BBC made a documentary, La Belle Isobel, of her career up to that time. She has had her own television series and has also appeared on such programmes as Face the Music and The Michael Parkinson Show.

After bringing up her two daughters, Isobel has recently resumed her career singing recitals with Eugene Asti and Malcolm Martineau at St John's, Smith Square, as well as performing Sheherezade with the South Bank Sinfonia and, most recently, Haydn with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Walton’s Façade with Jason Thornton and the Bath Phil at Longleat.

She also teaches voice privately, is a regular tutor for the Samling Foundation, gives master classes and workshops throughout the UK and teaches at the Guildhall School as a visiting professor.

I'm quite biased because this was my mums favourite Burns song, just listen to the clarity in her voice, Perfect....

#Scotland #Scottish #opera #Singer #soprano

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iVisit... Barbican brings back Concerts On Demand and announces new films on Cinema On Demand alongside more digital content

With England currently in lockdown, the Barbican announces a new programme of music and films On Demand, alongside fresh and existing digital content, inspired by the Barbican’s international arts programme. A curated mix of streams, podcasts, playlists, films, videos, talks and articles enables audiences to continue to enjoy the Centre’s rich and varied programme from home or on the go during its temporary closure and beyond.

Digital content is available via the Barbican’s website through Read, Watch & Listen, Cinema On Demand, Concerts On Demand, Live from the Barbican and its social media channels (Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Spotify). In addition, podcasts can also be accessed by subscribing to the Nothing Concrete podcast via Acast, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

Highlights of the Barbican’s current and upcoming digital content include:

Concerts as part of the acclaimed Live from the Barbican series in 2020 are available via Concerts On Demand from 9 Feb until 24 Mar 2021. Included are performances from celebrated artists who reflect the wide spectrum of the Barbican’s distinct music offer:

Nubya Garcia, The Divine Comedy, Emmy the Great, Richard Dawson, SEED Ensemble, Ian Bostridge and Dame Sarah Connolly, Shabaka Hutchings, Barbican’s Associate Orchestra and Ensembles BBC Symphony Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music and Britten Sinfonia

Also available On Demand are two seminal performances by the Barbican’s Resident Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra recorded at the Barbican in 2015 and 2017

An excerpt from the Olivier-Award nominated work, Blak Whyte Gray, performed by Barbican Artistic Associate Boy Blue and filmed at the Barbican Theatre, will feature in a three-part boxset Dancing Nation, available on BBC iPlayer and Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage until Fri 26 Feb 2021

Inspired – the Barbican’s Theatre and Dance in-conversation podcast series – returns, with the latest episode just released. This sees some of the amazing artists who work with us paired with Barbican young artists, sharing their personal stories about the influences that impact their work creatively

A full programme of exclusive films and ScreenTalks on Cinema On Demand including Martine Deyres’s 2019 documentary Our Lucky Hours in anticipation of the Barbican Art Gallery’s exhibition Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty

As part of the Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning’s programme Subject to Change: New Horizons, interdisciplinary artist Mandisa Apena and Tice Cin have released: "cos now im missing our touchhh", a new musical score and video exploring the loss of nightclubs and queer nightlife in the UK due to the Covid-19 pandemic

The annual literary festival New Suns returns entirely online from Fri 5 – Sun 7 Mar 2021 for a weekend of talks, workshops and a film centred around feminist storytelling

The Barbican believes in creating space for people and ideas to connect through its international arts programme, community events and learning activity. To keep its programme accessible to everyone, and to keep investing in the artists it works with, the Barbican needs to raise more than 60% of its income through ticket sales, commercial activities and fundraising every year. Donations can be made here: barbican.org.uk/support-us

Full details of digital content below.

MUSIC

Barbican Concerts On Demand available from Tue 9 Feb until Wed 24 Mar 2021

A range of concerts that have already taken place as part of the Barbican’s successful autumn 2020 concert series Live from the Barbican have just been made available to re-watch on Concerts On Demand until 24 Mar 2021.

Live from the Barbican was first devised during the summer of 2020 when it became apparent that, due to the pandemic, the Centre’s music season could not go ahead as planned in the autumn. A new series was born which, for the first time, made Barbican concerts accessible online for a global digital audience through a livestream and, also, for a reduced, socially distanced live audience in the Barbican Hall. This hybrid experience, developed and delivered entirely in-house, has enabled the Barbican to bring music to its audiences during a difficult year, and, to also support artists and partner organisations during the pandemic. The Barbican is now pleased to be able to bring back a range of these autumn performances as part of the On Demand offer at a time when it had to postpone its planned Spring 2021 series of concerts.

Tickets are £12.50 for new bookers and half price for those who booked tickets to watch the concerts originally. Discounted tickets at £5 are available to 14–25-year-olds through the Young Barbican scheme. Once tickets are bought, audiences have 48 hours to watch the concert.

Please find a list of Live from the Barbican – Concerts On Demand on offer in date order below

The Divine Comedy: Live from the Barbican

Original performance date: 14 Oct 2020, Barbican Hall, 8pm

On Demand Tickets £12.50

Produced by the Barbican

Emmy the Great: Live from the Barbican

Original performance date: 17 Oct 2020, Barbican Hall, 8pm

On Demand Tickets £12.50

Produced by the Barbican

Richard Dawson: Live from the Barbican

Original performance date: 25 Oct 2020, Barbican Hall, 8pm

On Demand Tickets £12.50

Produced by the Barbican

Nubya Garcia: Live from the Barbican

Original performance date: 29 Oct 2020, Barbican Hall, 8pm

On Demand Tickets £12.50

Produced by the Barbican

Ian Bostridge / Dame Sarah Connolly

Mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly, tenor Ian Bostridge, piano Julius Drake, Carducci Quartet

Original performance date: 1 Nov 2020, Barbican Hall, 8pm

On Demand Tickets £12.50

Produced by the Barbican

BBC SO/Oramo: Live from the Barbican

Soprano Anu Komsi, conductor Sakari Oramo, BBC Symphony Orchestra,

Original performance date: Fri 6 Nov 2020, Barbican Hall, 8pm

On Demand Tickets £12.50

Anna Clyne: Within Her Arms

Haydn: Symphony No 49 La Passione

Magnus Lindberg: Accused (world premiere of chamber orchestra version)

Co-produced by the Barbican and BBC SO

SEED Ensemble and Special Guests Celebrating the music of Pharoah Sanders: Live from the Barbican

Part of EFG London Jazz Festival 2020

Original performance date: 14 Nov 2020, Barbican Hall, 8pm

On Demand Tickets £12.50

Co-produced by the Barbican and Serious in association with EFG London Jazz Festival

Shabaka Hutchings with Britten Sinfonia: Live from the Barbican

Part of EFG London Jazz Festival 2020

Original performance date: 18 Nov 2020, Barbican Hall, 8pm

On Demand Tickets £12.50

Copland Clarinet Concerto

Stravinsky Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet

Copland Appalachian Spring

Co-produced by the Barbican and Britten Sinfonia

The Cosmos with Professor Brian Cox & BBC SO

presenter Professor Brian Cox, conductor Dalia Stasevska, BBC Symphony Orchestra

Original performance date: 13 Dec 2020, Barbican Hall, 8pm

On Demand Tickets £12.50

Sibelius arr. Iain Farrington: Symphony No. 5 Mov. 3

Ives: The Unanswered Question

Mahler arr. Michelle Castelletti: Symphony No.10 Mov. 1

Co-produced by the Barbican and BBC SO

Handel’s Messiah - Academy of Ancient Music / Egarr

Original performance date: 19 Dec 2020, Barbican Hall, 7pm

On Demand Tickets £12.50

Co-produced by the Barbican and the Academy of Ancient Music

London Symphony Orchestra

Barbican audiences get the chance to re-watch two great concerts by its Resident Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, as part of its On Demand programme, which will be available till 24 March 2021.

Michael Tilson Thomas 70th Birthday Gala

pianist Yuja Wang, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, London Symphony Orchestra,

Original performance date: Thu 12 Mar 2015, Barbican Hall, 7.30pm

On Demand Tickets £12.50

Colin Matthews: Hidden Variables

Gershwin: Concerto in F

Shostakovich: Symphony No 5

The LSO’s Conductor Laureate and former Principal Guest Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas celebrated his 70th birthday at the Barbican in 2015 with a pair of concerts focusing on British and Russian music, but with a nod to his native USA. In both concerts he was joined by the pianist Yuja Wang in Gershwin’s popular Concerto in F.

This is Rattle

conductor Sir Simon Rattle, London Symphony Orchestra

Original performance date: Thu 21 Sep 2017, Barbican Hall, 7.30pm

On Demand Tickets £12.50

Stravinsky: The Firebird (original ballet)

Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947 version)

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

An authority on Stravinsky, Sir Simon Rattle continued the 2017/18 season opening ‘This is Rattle’ celebrations with three of the composer’s revolutionary ballets. Stravinsky sent shockwaves through classical music in the 20th century. His first three ballets – The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring, all composed between 1911 and 1913 – brought a new and frenzied sense of rhythm, so distressing to audiences that it caused uproar; The Rite of Spring even caused a riot.

From Barbican partners

British baritone James Newby’s song recital as part of the ECHO Rising Stars Festival is now available to watch again for free via Read, Watch & Listen on the Barbican’s website. James Newby is the Barbican’s ECHO (European Concert Halls Organisation) nominee. The recital took place at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg on 28 January 2021.

The Guildhall School alumnus, ECHO Rising Star, BBC New Generation Artist, Kathleen Ferrier Award winner and member of the Hanover State Opera’s ensemble presents a selection of atmospheric Lieder by Clara and Robert Schumann. He is accompanied by pianist Marcelo Amaral. James Newby’s debut album with pianist Joseph Middleton I wonder as I wander came out in 2020.

James’s London ECHO recital was due to take place at Milton Court Concert Hall in January this year but had to be postponed due to the current lockdown restrictions.

CINEMA

In February Cinema On Demand brings together an exclusive programme of worldwide, bold, independent films for audiences to enjoy at home, while the venues remain closed.

Preceding the Barbican Art Gallery’s exhibition Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty, Barbican Cinema On Demand will host an exclusive presentation of Martine Deyres’s 2019 documentary Our Lucky Hours (19 Feb – 31 Mar), including a live ScreenTalk between art historian Sarah Lombardi, director of the Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne and Ben Platts-Mills, who works with artists with disabilities in London and has supported the development of Hackney-based inclusive art studio, Submit To Love. The live ScreenTalk will take place on Thu 11 Mar at 7pm.

In this thought provoking documentary, photos, archival footage and sound recordings tell the story of a pioneering psychiatric institution in 1930s France. The asylum was radically re-thought, with doctors, patients and nurses working side by side to run the facility, with the support of the local community. Patients were respected and integrated and individually supported. They took up roles in the hospital kitchen and on local farms, they published a newspaper, and many pursued flourishing visual art practices.

During the Second World War, the asylum also sheltered refugees and Resistance fighters, among them such figures from the Parisian avant-garde as Paul Éluard, Tristan Tzara, Georges Sadoul and Georges Canguilhem. At the end of the war, another visitor was Jean Dubuffet, whose discovery there of the sculptures by patient and artist Auguste Forestier supported his elaboration of the notion of ‘Art Brut’.

Other exclusive highlights on Cinema On Demand during February include:

Cat in the Wall (Dirs Mina Mileva & Vesela Kazakova), set on a South London council estate – in which a Bulgarian family gets into conflict with their neighbours due to an abandoned cat – it’s a striking and provocative drama about the aftermath of the Brexit vote. Screening as part of the New East cinema programme, the film is followed by a recorded ScreenTalk with directors Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova.

Screening as part of Forbidden Colours – a Barbican Cinema strand celebrating queer films from places where LGBTQ+ people continue to face oppression – is Several Conversations about a Very Tall Girl (Dir Bogdan Theodor Olteanu), a sensitive Romanian romance in which two young women – one out and proud, the other less confident – begin a tentative affair.

Following on from its sold out screening in Cinema 1 in December, as part of Barbican

Cinema’s Emerging Film Curators’ programme, Reframing the Fat Body (Dirs various) makes its online debut. In this programme of shorts, writer and curator Grace Barber-Plentie celebrates the bigger body; here fat bodies are freed from the constraints put upon them by modern society and allowed to be fluid, free, sexy and radical. This programme features a recorded ScreenTalk with film curator Tara Brown and co-founder of The Fat Zine, Chloe Sheppard, hosted by Grace Barber-Plentie.

Also available are The Capote Tapes (Dir Ebs Burnough) which explores the social rise and fall of Truman Capote, the infamous American writer; Song Without a Name (Dir Melina Léon), which follows a woman’s journey to get her stolen baby back, taken from her just after child birth; and Shahrbanoo Sadat’s tender film The Orphanage, about a young boy in 1980s Afghanistan, who is sent to a Soviet orphanage and finds himself in a complex social hierarchy.

For families and younger audiences there’s Creepy Crawly Films for Families (Dirs various), a compilation of fun shorts celebrating all that’s creepy and crawly in the ground.

Cinema On Demand is available to audiences across the UK with a rolling four-week programme of titles and events that reflect the Barbican’s international cinema programme.

Barbican Cinema has been supported by the Culture Recovery Fund for Independent Cinemas in England which is administered by the BFI, as part of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund supporting arts and cultural organisations in England affected by the impact of COVID-19. #HereForCulture

THEATRE AND DANCE

Inspired Series 2

Inspired is the Barbican’s Theatre and Dance in-conversation podcast series in which some of the amazing artists who work with us share their personal stories about the influences that impact their work creatively. Part of the Barbican’s Nothing Concrete podcast, the first Inspired series was released weekly in September 2020. This new Inspired series, released weekly from the beginning of February, pairs Barbican young artists with those that inspire them.

In episode 1 interdisciplinary artist Riwa Saab talks to writer and director Kirsty Housley about her extensive career in theatre, the craft of dramaturgy and directing, and the political nature of her work.

In episode 2 Barbican Young Poet Amani Saeed talks to storyteller Amrou Al-Kadhi about gender identity and drag performance.

In episode 3 sound artist and composer Rebekah Alero talks to vocalist, movement artist and composer Elaine Mitchener about improvisation, contemporary music theatre and performance art.

In episode 4 author Rogan Graham talks to actress and writer Susan Wokoma about acting and activism.

In episode 5 multidisciplinary practitioner Gabriel Akamo, and writer and performer Jeremiah Brown talk to actor Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù about his career, heritage and legacy.

Blak Whyte Gray

Co-commissioned and co-produced by the Barbican, Blak Whyte Gray by Barbican Artistic Associate Boy Blue premiered at the Barbican in 2017 and was restaged here in 2018 due to demand. Created by co-artistic directors Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy and Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante, an extract from the piece, Whyte, is available on BBC iPlayer and Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage until Fri 26 Feb 2021. This fierce, bold and galvanising dance work, set to a multilayered electronic score, reflects themes of identity, oppression and transcendence. The time is once again right to ask questions, to break free from a system that isn’t working, to emerge on the other side to an awakening – a return to roots, a celebration of culture.

CREATIVE LEARNING

Subject to Change: January 2021 commission

As part of Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning’s programme Subject to Change: New Horizons, interdisciplinary artists Mandisa Apena and Tice Cin have released: "cos now im missing our touchhh", a new musical score and video exploring the loss of nightclubs and queer nightlife in the UK due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The audio of Mandisa & Tice’s track uses ASMR sounds of their own breath and laughter to create the drumline, mixed together with a collage of video snippets of clubbing scenes and people dancing. The piece aims to illustrate how nightclubs can be a vital space for deep healing, the excitement of being openly queer and feeling united through digital spaces, mutual love and understanding. Through this work, Mandisa & Tice hope to show queer club culture during lockdown and chatroom bonding, celebrate togetherness through technology, as well as making note of the physical spaces that they miss so much, and the way lack of touch has affected them.

The Subject to Change: New Horizons programme commissions a different young creative, each month for a year, to produce new and powerful artistic work responding to the uncertain times in which we are living. Mandisa & Tice’s piece is the seventh in the series. New work will be shared every month on the Barbican’s website and social media channels until June 2021.

LEVEL G

Experience the 2021 programme of the New Suns Feminist Literature Festival from home

The annual literary festival New Suns returns for a weekend of talks, workshops and a film centred around feminist storytelling. The weekend will feature acclaimed writers, activists, artists, and academics including adrienne maree brown, Season Butler and Dorothea Lasky. This third edition of the festival, running from Friday 5 – Sunday 7 March 2021, will take place entirely online for the first time. New Suns is a co-production between the Barbican and independent publisher and curator Sarah Shin.

This year’s New Suns will look to the legacy of eminent science-fiction author Octavia Butler, to explore the power we have to both sustain and change the world around us, and how to commune with others. In particular, New Suns will reflect on Butler’s prophetic, unfinished Earthseed series, which imagines Earth in the 2020s ravaged by ecological disaster and violent divisions.

The festival will navigate the books’ central themes, such as the inevitability of change, community-building, examinations of race and gender, and humanity’s relationship to the cosmos. For the first time, there will be a limited edition New Suns anthology booklet to purchase which includes an extract from Octavia Butler’s book The Parable of the Sower; poetry by Dorothea Lasky and Daisy Lafarge; guides for self-reflection and meditation; as well as herbal recipes for strength and healing to enjoy this spring and beyond. The anthology is accompanied by thyme seeds and instructions on how to use the herb beyond the culinary.