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February 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 177
Jeanette MacDonald,Jeanette MacDonald Sings San Francisco And Other Silver Screen Favorites (1970) Jeanette MacDonald was a screen and stage star of the 1930s and 1940s. She starred in some 29 films, mostly musicals. From there to concert tours, to stage-musicals and theatre roles…amazing really…or, as my wife put it: “This is fucking awful!” Sample Track: […]Archive
October 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 190: Cassandra Tse
Welcome to episode 190 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved […]Archive
August 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Cringeworthy: Theatre
Cringeworthy Direction: Andrea Sanders (devised by Andrea Sanders) Circa Theatre; Circa Two (August 10 – September 7) Cringeworthy comes to us from Andrea Sanders – creator/leader of The Beat Girls. She’s created musical shows before (usually for The Beat Girls to act and sing in) here she stars alongside Tom Knowles, Carrie McLaughlin and Jeff Kingsford-Brown in a knowingly kitsch (but utterly clever and classy) tribute to the […]Archive
November 16, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 142 – Bronwyn Turei
Welcome to episode 142 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library to access each new episode; or via Anchor/FMyou can get the […]Archive
July 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Songs For Nobodies: Theatre
Songs For Nobodies Direction: Ross Gumbley (written by Joanna Murray-Smith) Circa Theatre; Circa One (July 7 – August 4) [Ali-Cat Productions Ltd] Ali Harper here performs ten roles, a dozen voices, as – variously – the famous singers Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday and Maria Callas. But she is also the “nobodies”, […]Archive
January 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Coco: Film
Coco Directors: Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molna Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures “This is Pixar at its best – somehow both visually stunning and straightforward. There’s something deceptively dazzling about Pixar at its best. It’s a return too to the brand’s very best version of the storytelling about feelings (rather than just storying with feelings)…” I […]Archive
November 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Peter Pan – The Pantomime: Theatre
Peter Pan – The Pantomime Direction: Susan Wilson (written by Pinky Agnew & Lorae Parry) Circa Theatre; Circa One (Nov 18 – Dec 23/Jan 2-13) The Circa Theatre end of year panto has been a mainstay across the last year – however last year’s romp through Jack And The Beanstalk felt phoned in, stale. The […]Archive
October 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Opening Night: DVD
Opening Night Director: Isaac Rentz Wolfe Video If watching Topher Grace playing a failed Broadway performer-turned-stage-manager wrangling talent backstage for the titular opening night of a musical called “One Hit Wonderland” sounds like fun to you. Then I guess it will be. An eccentric cast (Rob Riggle in full-yell mode, Anne Heche looking bored and […]Archive
October 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 489
Shelly Manne, Plays Richard Rodgers: REX (1977) If I have a weakness – in a guilty-pleasure/Achilles heel sense – it is solo albums by drummers. I don’t just mean when the drummer is a bandleader (as Shelly Manne was) or when they’re a singer/songwriter too or multi-instrumentalist. Though bring all that on also. But if […]Archive
July 31, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Short Story: My Westside Story
I remember thinking that people never really burst into song in real life – you know like in the musicals; in the movies…and it was at that exact point, thinking that, when my father just piped up, out of nowhere, “maria, Maria, MARIA!” each version of the name louder and longer than the one before […]Archive
June 30, 2017 by Simon Sweetman