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Favourite Olivier Awards Memories and Our 2020 Winners
Sadly, the 2020 Olivier Awards won’t be going ahead as planned due to the coronavirus shutdown, although ITV will broadcast a highlights show. So, BroadwayWorld reviewers have been thinking back to some of our favourite Oliviers winners, nominees and performances … Continue reading
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Strictly Speaking: The Final
Another year, another bloated final that winds up being totally irrelevant to the results. At some point, Strictly bosses might need to look into that… For my money, of the last four, Ashley was the strongest dancer, Joe the most … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Journalism, TV
Tagged ashley roberts, ballroom, bbc, blog, celebrity, champion, competition, dance, dancing, dancing times, dirty dancing, faye tozer, final, joe sugg, judges, judges choice, kevin clifton, latin, michael buble, recap, review, seann walsh, showdance, stacey dooley, strictly, strictly come dancing, strictly speaking, tv, vote, voters, winner
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Strictly Speaking: The Final
And then we came to the end. All in all, it’s been a cracker of a series, and the final really was the, er, brandy cream on the pudding. We had a great run of dances from all four couples, … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Journalism, TV
Tagged alexandra burke, ballroom, bbc, blog, celebrity, champion, claudia winkleman, dance, dancer, dancing, dancing times, debbie mcgee, final, gemma atkinson, joe mcfadden, judge, katya jones, latin, recap, review, scd, series 15, shirley ballas, showdance, strictly, strictly come dancing, strictly speaking, tess daly, trophy, tv, win, winner
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Strictly Speaking: The final
There was something of an elegiac feel to this year’s final, as Len Goodman, Strictly institution, finally hung up his “Seh-ven!” paddle, gave us one last scrambled metaphor and waltzed off to the great golf course in the sky. We … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Journalism, TV
Tagged american smooth, argentine tango, ballroom, blog, cha cha, champion, dance, dancing, dancing times, danny mac, final, jive, joanne clifton, judge, len goodman, louise redknapp, ore oduba, quickstep, recap, review, samba, scd, showdance, strictly, strictly come dancing, strictly speaking, winner
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Olivier Awards 2016: Hits and Misses
As expected, the 40th anniversary Olivier Awards showered trophies on the sensational Gypsy. Imelda Staunton and Lara Pulver’s performances and Mark Henderson’s lighting were recognised, and the production took Best Musical Revival. But there were surprises elsewhere, with starry shows … Continue reading
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Tagged award, benedict cumberbatch, broadwayworld, chorus, denise gough, diversity, eno, gypsy, hangmen, hits and misses, imelda staunton, in the heights, judi dench, kenneth branagh, kenneth cranham, kinky boots, lin-manuel miranda, london, Mark Gatiss, mark rylance, michael ball, musical, nell gwynn, oliver awards, oliviers, people places and things, prize, theatre, west end, win, winner
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Strictly Speaking: the final
Never question the commitment of boyband voters. A final that zigzagged between possible winners (well, apart from Katie) ended up feeling somewhat redundant as Jay’s fans carried him over the finishing line regardless of his distinctly underwhelming performance. Aliona’s dubious … Continue reading
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Housing, cycling and movies for your ears
Highlights of my November MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Pick of the month: Crisis management New London Architecture’s competition winners propose solutions for London’s affordable housing shortage Don’t miss: Two wheels good The Design Museum celebrates the cycling boom with a new exhibition … Continue reading
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Tagged affordable housing, art, audio, bike, biography, book, boris bikes, bradley wiggins, buy, chris hoy, commute, commuter, competition, cycling, design museum, exhibition, generation rent, house, housing, housing crisis, housing shortage, jonathan bate, live, london, london 2012, mayor of london, moveto, moveto town and country, new london architecture, nla, olympics, peter murray, podcast, property, read, sell, story, team sky, ted hughes, the truth, tour de france, winner
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