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Review: Tammy Faye, Almeida Theatre It looks good but... Also, do we think US theatre creatives are coming up with musicals on UK 80s TV stars? Bella Emberg the Musical anyone...

Immensely spectacular creative work and some corking performances can’t quite hide the hollowness at the heart of Tammy Faye at the Almeida Theatre “You opened your heart and people wanted to come in. It was like the opposite of church” I don’t know anything about the world of US TV evangelists. And I wonder how many Brits really do, aside from seeing the film The Eyes of Tammy Faye last year,…

Review: 101 Dalmatians, Open Air Theatre Not the one for me. At all.

Long-awaited and strong of pedigree, this musical version of 101 Dalmatians at the Open Air Theatre proves to be a dog of a show “You buried that bone somewhere” Yaaaas kween! Or not as the case may be. The transformation of Cruella de Vil into an East London social media influencer is a bold swing from this new musical treatment of 101 Dalmatians but for me, it was a big miss. Written by Douglas…

This week, we’re looking at another surprise Golden Globe nomination that fueled minor Oscar talk, 2015′s Danny Collins. An assemblage of fedoras, silk scarves, and one catchy original song, the film stars Al Pacino as a washed up singer in the vein of Neil Diamond who ingratiates himself to the family of his estranged son. Written and directed by Dan Fogelman, the film may have all of Fogelman’s trademark cliched, but we (along with the HFPA) were quite charmed by the Pacino performance and the film as a whole. But that Globe surprise proved to not be enough for Oscar, leaving the film to be a forgotten spring release.

This episode, we go into the Fogelman ethos and examine the long period between Pacino’s Oscar win and his next nomination for The Irishman. We also discuss the cursed 2015 Original Song race that Danny Collins could have enlivened, Pacino’s string of HBO performances, and how Jennifer Garner is a more interesting supporting player than a lead.

Topics also include Dunkaccino, hanging out at the Grove, and Movies That Star Four Old Actors.

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... sorry Drew and Jo! It looks like 2019 M&R - being far more competent criminals than the stage version, and pouting over the non-star actors getting no credit for all their hard work - have led an ingenious heist to steal all the credit by replacing the names of the 1998 actors with their own in all online material.

(gif is by @statisticalcats)

Be alert, everybody. If you start to see the internet referring to these guys as Robbie Fairchild and Rebel Wilson, bear witness.

The truth lives only in our memories... now and forever... 😔✊🏻

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The ACC Tourmament opens Wednesday while this weekend most NCAA Men's Soccer Conference Tournaments will begin. Follow along here!

AJ Palazollo steps in front of Mitchell Murphy in the Bronze Boot Game September 14, 2021. Photo by Will Bramlett.Time for the Men to kick off their NCAA D1 Conference tournaments and as with the women, I’ll be tracking SLU in the A-10, SIU-E and Loyola in the MVC and Indiana in the B1G. Check out Work In The Morning for photos from the Bronze Boot game by Will Bramlett aka YBrammer on IG. Thanks…