Kim Hollamby | The anchor swallowed » musical http://www.kimhollamby.com/blog Thoughts on business, internet, boating, theatre lighting and other interests Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:08:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Chess The Musical 27-31 October http://www.kimhollamby.com/blog/2009/10/13/chess-the-musical-27-31-october http://www.kimhollamby.com/blog/2009/10/13/chess-the-musical-27-31-october#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:08:29 +0000 Kim http://www.kimhollamby.com/blog/?p=541 Sainsburys Singers' performance of Chess The Musical at The Hexagon, Reading on 27-31 October. Having just got home from the first run-through I must say I am impressed by the quality of the singing of what is a very difficult score. Soloists are strong and the cast at full bore nearly took the roof off the rehearsal venue. Exciting!

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]]> http://www.kimhollamby.com/blog/2009/02/13/la-belle-helene-3-7-march/feed 0 Please turn the Sound of Music up http://www.kimhollamby.com/blog/2009/02/03/someone-please-turn-the-sound-of-music-up http://www.kimhollamby.com/blog/2009/02/03/someone-please-turn-the-sound-of-music-up#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:45:16 +0000 Kim http://www.kimhollamby.com/blog/?p=154 Have just been to the Sound of Music and must admit to being a bit puzzled about the experience and my reaction to it, until I read a blog from Dominic Cavendish of The Telegraph.

He was there the night after us and convinced me I wasn’t being overly picky by puzzling over Summer Strallen’s

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