Thursday 25 April 2013

London Day 3

Sipping my daily frothy cappuccino in the cafe at the end of the road as I work on the updates. I feel very fortunate to have had another beautiful weather day yesterday. Snow in Ontario seems impossible however I do believe the news. I thoroughly enjoyed the West End musical, The Bodyguard, yesterday. Definitely a rather mundane story but outstanding singing and dancing with a beautiful black woman the star.
As usual, another fabulous meal with my friends. This time in a Thai restaurant overlooking the Thames at Putney Bridge. Scintillating conversation about the state of racism in the world today and our hopes for a better future.

👍Time Out Magazine re The Bodyguard:
"There is surely an excruciatingly tacky musical adaptation of the Whitney Houston-starring romantic thriller 'The Bodyguard' to be made. But this is not it. In fact Thea Sharrock's production could scarcely look pricier if Lloyd Owen's personal security guard Frank Farmer had been charged with protecting an enormous pile of real gold bullion, as opposed to Heather Headley's singing superstar Rachel Marron
The undoubted star of Sharrock's stylish production is the extraordinary set – a series of mobile panels which open and close like a giant, mobile camera shutter, blinking in and out, and panning cinematographically in every direction. It gives 'The Bodyguard' a tightly edited, filmic slickness the likes of which I've never seen in the theatre, and goes some way to making up for one of the ropiest scripts in musical history."







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