http://hdl.handle.net/2328/29 2013-05-20T19:15:19Z 2013-05-20T19:15:19Z Bramwell, Murray Ross http://hdl.handle.net/2328/8246 2013-05-13T01:30:04Z 2004-11-08T00:00:00Z

Title: Shift of Wind Needed Before Pinafore Sails. "HMS Pinafore" by Gilbert and Sullivan. Carl Rosa Company. Her Majesty's Theatre [review] Authors: Bramwell, Murray Ross Abstract: The Carl Rosa Opera Company occupied a distinguished part of English operatic history from its establishment in 1873 through to the late 1950s. It presented the first English productions of Carmen, Lohengrin and Aida and would have staged the works of Gilbert and Sullivan had the D’Oyly Carte company not got their hands on them first. Now, 131 years later, under artistic director Peter Mulloy, a new Carl Rosa Company is staging Gilbert and Sullivan with an attention to authenticity that is Gilbertian in its detail - even using sets, props and costumes once owned by D’Oyly Carte.

2004-11-08T00:00:00Z Bramwell, Murray Ross http://hdl.handle.net/2328/8245 2013-05-13T01:29:58Z 2004-12-10T00:00:00Z

Title: History Repeats After All. "The Finn Brothers". Entertainment Centre [review] Authors: Bramwell, Murray Ross Abstract: There is a sense of full circle here. Who said our beginnings never know our Enz? Neil and Tim Finn are touring a new album, ripe with harmony and turbid with memory. On stage at the Ent Centre, the flickering home movie of squinting kids on the front porch in Teasdale Street, Te Awamutu sets an expectation, but it is certainly not nostalgia. The Finns have a lot of history and, in middle age, they are starting to sift through it.

2004-12-10T00:00:00Z Bramwell, Murray Ross http://hdl.handle.net/2328/8244 2013-05-13T01:29:22Z 2005-07-08T00:00:00Z

Title: Cabaret Funnies - Fond and Furious. "iBob" by Bob Downe, "We Don't Have Husbands" by the Kransky Sisters, and "The Big Con" by Max Gilles and Eddie Perfect. Adelaide Cabaret Festival [review] Authors: Bramwell, Murray Ross Abstract: The Adelaide Cabaret Festival, in part, arose from the need to separate from the avalanche of stand-up comedy that dominates the Fringe. However, there has been no shortage of funny business in the Festival Centre recently in a program that has included the CNNNN jokers, Sandman and Flacco, Wil Anderson - and Bob Downe. Even after twenty one years, it seems, you can’t keep an irrepressible man down. Bob Downe, the acrylic and polyester alter ego of Mark Trevorrow, has - you might say - come of age. But he hasn’t quite arrived either because he belongs in a long and hilarious line of repressed entertainers, those, like Norman Gunston, whose vaulting ambitious outweigh their talents, and whose geek-detectors are permanently switched off.

2005-07-08T00:00:00Z Bramwell, Murray Ross http://hdl.handle.net/2328/8243 2013-05-13T01:29:50Z 2004-09-28T00:00:00Z

Title: Goat Leg Soup. "Muse". Thebarton Theatre [Review] Authors: Bramwell, Murray Ross Abstract: It is only eight months since we saw UK band Muse at Big Day Out, but now they are back with more fans and a lot more fanfare. Their stocks have risen with the release of their latest album, Absolution, a recent tour with The Cure, and their steady determination to prevail. There have been comparisons - with Radiohead, for instance, and the latter end of Britpop - but increasingly, Muse is taking inspiration from such brazen exhumations of the flamboyant as The Darkness and the We-Will-Rock-You community singalongs of the Queen revival.

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