It’s official: Stephen Sondheim is the all-time greatest writer of musicals. Okay, this is from a straw poll of only two people, but the pair in question, performer/director Nancye Hayes and director Stuart Maunder, are musical theatre royalty. Dare to suggest that Sondheim was the only creator of musicals to…
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It was the owner of a tiny Japanese record shop who finally turned Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s career around. This was in 2015 when Ryota Masuka emailed to ask the transgendered singer/songwriter if he still had any copies of his 1986 cassette-only album Keyboard Fantasies. Glenn-Copeland – Glenn to his friends –…
By Tony Wellington Monash University Publishing, $36.99 The fabled 1960s conjure some combination of idealism, collectivism, a popular music explosion, Civil Rights, the pill, Vietnam, adventurousness in other arts and mind-altering drugs. The 1970 demise of The Beatles came just as the idealism began to wane, and selfishness and narcissism…