Quiz Call: Carmen Jones
You’ll kick yourself for not guessing Carmen Jones in Quiz Call‘s musicals category, alongside classics like Boney M musical Daddy Cool and not really a musical Animal Crackers. This 1954 […]
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The Threepenny Opera
This 1931 adaptation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s German play follows Mack the Knife (Rudolf Forster), a kind of celebrity crook à la the Krays or Jared Kushner. The […]
ENO: Porgy and Bess
That’s ENO as in the English National Opera, as opposed to Brian Eno, which would be more like Proggy and Bess. From the majestic opening number, it’s immediately clear why The […]
Screen Goblin 