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Jonathan Kemp revels in the rude festive cheer of BUTTONS
BUTTONS: A CINDERELLA STORY ☆☆☆☆ Charles Court Opera @ Kings Head Theatre It’s panto season and Charles Court Opera’s take on the Cinderella Story twists the traditional narrative into glorious, gender-bending lewd fun in their offering at the King’s Head Theatre (till Jan 5th). In this gloriously topsy-turvy version, Buttons is a toy bear who…
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Singing His Heart Out in the Car
We have no idea who Colin O’Leary is BUT we love this You Tube of him singing his heart as his sainted mother drove him all this summer. The boy knows his showtunes and is hilariously funny. You can subscribe to him on You Tube and follow him on Instagram . He promises there will be…
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Cyndi Lauper’s campy Christmas album
Fed up already with the usual fare of Christmas music being blasted everywhere you go ( I mean how many times can you listen to Mariah Carey tell us all she wants for Christmas?). Then here is an overlooked gem by the fab Cyndi Lauper that she recorded back in 1998 and has hardly…
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The Wedding
This intriguing autobiographical wee film helmed by Egyptian/American filmmaker Sam Abbas who wrote, directed and starred in it, is full of promise which sadly is often over-shadowed by the movie’s rather deadpan and flat production. Abbas plays Rami living in New York’s Lower East Side with his fiance Sara (Nikohl Boosheri) who is anxious to…
