I seem to be coinciding with Picaroon every other four weeks in the Prize puzzle slot…not that I’m complaining…
…although I was a bit slow on the uptake with the theme here – maybe because I am a bit of a cultural desert when it comes to, well, culture…
This was a game of two halves – approximately. We had been out for a fairly libatious dinner last Friday, and I tucked into this around 01.00 on the Saturday morning, to try and get a head-start on things. Unfortunately, the iPad soon slipped from my grasp, as I submitted to the Lethean (and Shiraz-ean) mists of slumber, with maybe less than half of the clues done.
It wasn’t picked up again until I was on a myriad of trains heading North the next morning, on my way to the cultural metropolis that is ‘Ull, to watch them play West Bromwich Albion in another game of two halves…and two goals…but that is another story…
I pressed on with solving, completely oblivious to what was going on until I finally tripped across 14A – MUSICAL. (I had been flitting around and chasing crossers, rather than applying any sort of systematic rigour to the process…) Luckily the train carriage was fairly empty, as the sound of palm slapping hungover forehead echoed up and down the aisle, competing with the ubiquitous ‘see it, say it, sorted’ slogan.
As I said – a cultural desert! I am familiar with most of the fourteen, although I had to check a couple – but I can’t claim to have seen any of them, either on stage or the silver/LED screen.
Quite an achievement from the dastardly pirate, not just to fit in fourteen thematic answers, but to also put the keyword in at clue no. 14. This bear of little brain can’t quite fathom this – if he had only managed to fit say 12 or 13, would he have moved to a different grid with MUSICAL at clue 12 or 13?
My thanks to Picaroon, as usual. Lots of wonderful/clever clues/surface reads/anagram indicators – I’m sure commenters below will have their own favourites. My LOI was GOOF at 1D, and I enjoyed the ‘scientific expert’ FERMI; the ‘lift-and-separate’ of cathouses/cat houses; CHESS as ‘the mating game’; and the CRAIC in Ireland coming after ‘a lot of coke one’s snorted’…I only ever experienced it with copious amounts of Guinness, but each to their own…
Just one quibble-ette, which came from dissecting the puzzle with my mother on the Sunday or Monday (the trip oop North wasn’t just for footballing purposes). She questioned whether a TRACT could really be defined as a ‘plot’, in ENTR’ACTE. A ‘plot’ is usually something garden-, or allotment-, sized, whereas a ‘tract’ tends to refer to something larger, as in the ‘Monty Python & the Holy Grail’ wedding scene, where the groom’s father refers to the bride-to-be as having ‘huuuge…tracts o’ land’.
As is often the case, I will be out golfing (across a huuuge tract o’ land) most of Saturday morning when this is posted, so I may not be able to respond to comments/quibbles for a while…I am sure the self-correcting and mutually-supportive 15×15 spirit will carry the day…
| Across | ||
|---|---|---|
| Clue No | Solution | Clue (definition underlined)
Logic/parsing |
| 9A | ON THE TOWN | Where night may be spent, dropping round when not too drunk (2,3,4)
anag, i.e. drunk, of WHEN NOT TO( [the first of 14 musicals!] |
| 10A | ANNIE | News that is following the opening of Albert Hall on screen (5)
A (opening letter of Albert) + NN (new, plural, news) + IE (id est, that is) [another musical…there was a Woody Allen film titled ‘Annie Hall‘, hence ‘on screen’, but nothing to do with the ‘Annie’ story, I believe?] |
| 11A | FERMI | Rejected this person’s official scientific expert (5)
IM (this person ‘s…, I’m going to…) + REF (official, referee), all rejected = FERMI |
| 12A | HAIRSPRAY | Husband makes public petition for cosmetic solution (9)
H (husband) + AIRS (makes public) + PRAY (petition) [and another!] |
| 13A | CABARET | Cathouses like a stripper’s club (7)
CA_T around (housing) BARE (like a stripper…eventually!) [another musical – ‘cathouses’ has to be lifted and separated!] |
| 14A | MUSICAL | Any of fourteen answers here having problem about current state (7)
MUS (sum, problem, about, or reversed) + I (physics, electric current) + CAL (California, state) [the thematic keyword…] |
| 17A | AD HOC | When necessary, hospital’s toured by a person seen there? (2,3)
A D_OC (someone seen in a hospital!) around (touring) H (hospital) |
| 19A | PAY | After a year, year’s income (3)
PA (per annum, e.g. £x a year) + Y (year) |
| 20A | CHESS | Extremely churlish female ending the mating game (5)
Ch (extreme letters of ChurlisH) + ESS (female ending of many words, in times gone by!) [and another!] |
| 21A | CAMELOT | Idiot admitting a case of malpractice in court (7)
C_LOT (idiot) around (admitting) A + ME (outer letters, or case, of MalpracticE) [and another…] |
| 22A | CHICAGO | Drive east of swish area in city (7)
CHIC (swish) + A (area) + GO (drive, to the right, or the East, of CHICA) [and another…three in a row!] |
| 24A | SOLDIER ON | What metal dealer did, without energy to persevere (7,2)
SOLD I_RON (what a metal dealer did) around (without, or outwith) E (energy) |
| 26A | IDLER | Workshy sort hands round European papers, at first (5)
ID (identity papers) first, or before, L_R (left and right hands) around E (European) |
| 28A | GHOST | Grand entertainer showing spirit (5)
G (grand, usually 1000 in a monetary sense) + HOST (entertainer) [and another – eight so far!] |
| 29A | AGAMEMNON | Monsieur Macron’s refusal to back a keen old king (9)
A + GAME (keen) + M (monsieur) + NON (no, in French, i.e. Macron’s refusal) |
| Down | ||
| Clue No | Solution | Clue (definition underlined)
Logic/parsing |
| 1D | GOOF | A lot of rot for foolish person (4)
GO OF( |
| 2D | ATHROB | Like heart of Hobart, potentially (6)
anag, i.e. potentially, of HOBART |
| 3D | RECIPROCAL | Mutual friend eating fabulous bird with cooked rice (10)
RECI (anag, i.e. cooked, of RICE) + P_AL (friend) around (eating) ROC (fabulous bird, bird of fable) |
| 4D | TOP HAT | Work hard to don rubbish accessory for a gent (3,3)
T_AT (rubbish) around (worn, or donned by) OP (opus, work) + H (hard) [yet another musical] |
| 5D | INFIRMLY | Company kept by Sian Lloyd periodically without strength (8)
IN_LY (periodic letters from ‘sIaN lLoYd’ around (keeping) FIRM (company) |
| 6D | CATS | Fans of jazz performers initially swapping places (4)
ACTS (performers) swapping the initial two letters = CATS! [and another…] |
| 7D | ENTRACTE | Break in plot, boring in French and English (8)
EN (in, French) + E (English), around (bored into by) TRACT (plot) [is a TRACT really a PLOT?] |
| 8D | RELY | Bank run somewhere in Cambridgeshire (4)
R (run) + ELY (somewhere in Cambridgeshire) |
| 13D | CRAIC | A lot of coke one’s snorted – it’s fun in Ireland (5)
CRA_C( |
| 15D | SACRIFICES | Offerings charm king provided with desserts (10)
SA (sex appeal, or charm?) + CR (Charles Rex, king) + IF (provided) + ICES (desserts) |
| 16D | LASSO | Two sailors losing time lifted rope (5)
OS (Ordinary Seaman) + SAL( |
| 18D | HAMILTON | Sailor’s mistress, I see, put up with poet (8)
HA (ah!, interjection, I see, put up) + MILTON (John Milton, poet) [then another three in a row…] |
| 19D | PETER PAN | Eternal child’s games provoked parent (5,3)
PE (Physical Education, school, ‘games’) + TER PAN (anag, i.e. provoked, of PARENT) |
| 22D | CAN-CAN | Preserve repeated 13 show (3-3)
CAN (preserve), repeated |
| 23D | AILING | Weak greeting from a cockney (6)
( |
| 24D | SAGA | Turned up something fun in Lord of the Rings? (4)
A GAS (something fun) turned up = SAGA! |
| 25D | IOTA | Using computers, adult pens love letter (4)
I_T (computers) around (penning) O (zero, love), plus A (adult) |
| 27D | RENT | What people 19 for entertainment, in part (4)
hidden word in, i.e. part of, ‘foR ENTertainment’ – what people PAY (19A) [and the last of 14 musicals!] |
Thanks mc-rapper67. A good workout with clever misdirections, most of which I fell for. I did realise what the theme was but missed several of the shows and didn’t attempt to identify the whole 14. While a lot of the solutions became apparent quite early on it took much longer to understand why. I liked the device in 10a NN= news. Agree with you and your mother about plot = tract, too much disparity in size. It was that NW corner again that was the last to yield, I have to wonder if it’s becoming a mental block for me.
There have been several film versions of the musical Annie, the best known being the 1982 one, but of course ‘Hall on screen’ does refer to the film that made Diane Keaton’s name.
I really like and admire Picaroon, but I think he made an unfortunate choice in one of the clues (and I’m sure most will disagree, but anyway …)
This was not the hardest of puzzles, but the pointer in 14a gave the game away way too early. In my opinion, even if the answer MUSICAL remained the same but the surface was changed to not refer to the theme, it would have been a better solving experience. Don’t you love those Aha! moments when part-way through the puzzle you see a connection between answers, and maybe also a signpost to the theme? Well, I felt deprived of that, unfortunately. What remained was in part a matter of thinking of popular musicals then finding where they fit.
That grouching aside, the clues were up to the setter’s usual high standards. I particularly liked CAMELOT and AGAMEMNON.
Thanks both.
I wish I had solved MUSICAL earlier – it would have helped unravel Lady HAMILTON.
We see a couple of completely obscure words in many theme puzzles. Kudos to the setter for avoiding that. Favourites were PAY and ON THE TOWN. I did find bits of this difficult, although it looks straight forward enough now. It must have been the misdirection mentioned by Biggles A @1.
Finally, I wonder whether Picaroon was subtly suggesting someone create AGAMENMON the musical?
Thanks Picaroon and mc-rapper67
Thanks rapper for that solve, with generous introductory rap. Wot, no Oklahoma? The only screen musical I’ve seen, aged 10, apart from Cabaret the great movie with Minelli and York. Agree with Dr Wh @3, not a lot of aha, but ok, ta Pickers.
I am a middle-aged gay man. So this was easy. My first five entries included ANNIE, CATS, HAIRSPRAY, and TOP HAT, and when I saw all that, MUSICAL was a write-in. Then it became a game of spot–the-musical. I have seen all of these, whether on stage or screen, except CAN-CAN (not sure why) and GHOST (they’ll make a musical out of any popular movie these days, a phenomenon I despise). Oh, and CATS, which I was fortunately warned off of just in time. I had never heard of Lord Nelslon’s mistress, so the musical sure helped with that one.
I knew most of the musicals, which surprised me as, apart from A Hard Day’s Night, I’m not a fan. It helped with confirmation rather than solving. When I was casting about for Emma’s second name for example. It did help in solving 14a though.
Not the hardest, but none the worse for that and some chuckles along the way.
Thanks both.
Oh, also–gotta mention the shout-out to CHICAGO, my home, where Lakeshore Drive swings east of the Gold Coast, the swankiest neighborhood in the Midwest (but of course, east of just about every other neighborhood in the city too). The clue is probably not referring to that, though.
10a ANNIE – Liked the ‘lift and separate’ of “Albert Hall” to get an “A” and Diane Keaton.
13a CABARET – Liked the repunctuation of “Cathouses” to get a “CAT” and an inclusion indicator.
AGAMEMNON
Lucky you mc_rapper@67 for your Picaroon rotations. And thank you for your blog. I needed you for GOOF. Interesting that there were 2 clues beginning with ”a lot of”. CRAIC I got. Is that the one you described as ”unfortunate” Dr. WhatsOn@3? I agree with you that MUSICAL signalled the theme a bit too loudly and I would have liked to come to the discovery myself. But as usual I didn’t look for other possibilities and so it came about as a slow reveal.
You’ve got it, Frankie G@10 with AGAMEMNON. I was wondering if there were meant to be 14 musicals, apart from MUSICAL, and had come up with SACRIFICES, which is probably more obscure as it doesn’t appear to have a Wiki entry.
https://sacrificesthemusical.com/?fbclid=IwAR0n9RFaxGxjDUjAq6z8LbNYH-C35Pzo1T1rBe4yJoovplt2868VE_wsqwM
I finished this one, and reasonably quickly for me, but felt I didn’t really deserve to. Despite the huge hint in 14ac – even listing the number of themed answers – I managed to enter ON THE TOWN, ANNIE, HAIRSPRAY, CABARET, CAMELOT and almost all the rest, without realising what they had in common. I can’t even claim I didn’t know they were musicals – I even remember thinking as I wrote in RENT, “Oh, that happens to be the name of a musical”. And then I needed all the crossers to finally get MUSICAL itself. I really felt I’d not been paying attention. It did help me to get the one remaining themed answer,, though. Which is good, because ‘Sailor’s mistress’ hadn’t seemed all that specific as a definition. Rather like ‘Scientific expert’, although at least HAMILTON was a musical and as far as I know FERMI isn’t. Not yet, anyway, although with the success of Oppenheimer it must just be a matter of time.
FrankieG @ 10: I had googled ‘Agamemnon musical’ – I got both this Melbourne production and a version of the play with lyrics and music. I wondered if you could Google almost anything together with ‘musical’ and find an example somewhere. But no, because I did check for Fermi as well.
Despite the feeling that I was I bit slow with the theme, I did enjoy this. Thanks Picaroon, thanks mc_rapper.
The theme was so obvious that even I saw it. Then worried that my ignorance of the genre might give problems, but had heard of most of them (didn’t know RENT was a musical, but thought ENTR’ACTE was). However, enjoyed the puzzle. My last one in was actually GOOF and it took until Sunday for me to see the ‘lot of rot’ wordplay. Didn’t worry too much about the TRACT/plot synonym. Where would a plot stop being a plot and become a tract? Don’t think it would have got in anyone’s way to solve the clue. Thanks to Picaroon and mc_rapper (hope it’s not too chilly when you golf today).
Took a while to get 14ac and couldn’t parse it – but once I got it I found it very helpful.
My favourite clue was AGAMEMNON and I also liked HAIRSPRAY, CABARET, PAY, CRAIC, LASSO
Didn’t get the last three in the NW corner.
I thought I had found all 14 musicals although after getting the answers to some I had to google to see if they were musicals as I had not heard of them. However I included AGAMEMNON although (as pointed out above) it is an opera and I did not realise TOP HAT was one of the 14 – oh well.
Thanks Picaroon and mc_rapper67
Thanks for the blog, the theme was given away early but I could safely ignore it during the solve. ( MC I think MUSICAL at 14 is just coincidence, the clue would be fine at any number. )
I thought SOLDIER ON was very neat and glad that RELY did not rely on the see/cathedral for once.
FERMI named the Pauli particle as the neutrino , probably the best name in particle physics, He was probably the closest to being a NUKE but the SI revision set him back.
Tomsdad@13: I also guessed the ENTRACTE/RENT pair the wrong way round, but recognised the rest (though surely it can only be a matter of time before “Ted LASSO: The Musical”?) Last in was a hesitant GOOF and I never did parse it.
Fun puzzle, thanks Picaroon and mc.
DrW @3 – starting by working through the across answers in order, I’d twigged the theme from ANNIE and HAIRSPRAY before I got as far as 14a. But then I completely forgot about it so it wasn’t much help in solving the rest!
mc – Collins has tract as large area of land and plot as a small area of land but they are both vaguely defined terms for an area of land so I have no problem with them being used synonymously here – simply didn’t occur to me to question it while solving.
Gladys and Tomsdad: RENT is La Boheme updated for the late 20th century, with Aids and New York instead of tuberculosis and Paris. The author tragically died of Aids the day before it opened on Broadway. Here’s Seasons of Love, probably the most memorable song from Rent, which apparently the movie ran over the opening credits for some reason? (In the stage show, it opens Act 2.)
I do like it when themes are telegraphed openly. I never see them otherwise – whereas the musicals really helped to make this a simple solve. Much fun.
goof took me too long.
Thanks Picaroon and MC_rapper
’12 Best Broadway Musical References in Ted LASSO‘
Many thanks Picaroon and mc_rapper67. Greatly enjoyed this. Often compact clues that flowed brilliantly. I did briefly wonder if they’d made a musical of Tintin (preserve, preserve) but the letter count didn’t quite allow.
Enjoyed this a lot – even though I was another for whom 14a was the last musical clue in.
Thanks P&M
Unfortunately for me, 14a MUSICAL was my last one in for the whole grid, so the theme was no help at all along the way! It was a lot of fun spotting the fourteen “musicals” as the endgame though, and I kept wondering why I hadn’t spotted the theme when I was solving (the wood and trees analogy comes to mind).
Favourites were 10a ANNIE (“Annie Hall” remains one of my personal best films ever), 12a HAIRSPRAY (I liked the “solution” bit) and 21a Camelot (I used to show the Richard Harris film on a 16mm projector to my Year 9s for the “Medieval Times” Unit I taught back in the day – those students are now fifty-somethings!).
Thanks to Picaroon for a worthy and amusing Prize puzzle and to mc_rapper67 for his usual thorough, readable and entertaining blog.
In common with several others, I solved this but took ages to see FERMI and GOOF, which my last in by some distance. I could see the word play for FERMI, but wasn’t convinced by the definition of one of the best particle physicists as a scientific expert.
MrPenney@6 I saw the original stage show of CATS, and there is a film of that; the cast was amazing and definitely worth seeing.
Thank you to mc_rapper and Picaroon.
I enjoyed the introduction to the blog – very entertaining!
This was tough but as I solved CATS and ANNIE on my first pass, I was able to solve 14ac MUSICAL which made it easier to solve other clues such as CHICAGO, CAN-CAN and the others.
LHS was harder for me, especially the NW corner where I failed to solve 11ac and 1d.
I did not parse the ESS bit of 20ac.
New for me: CRAIC (13d – I had always thought there is a difference between crack and cocaine).
Thanks, both.
A lovely puzzle as always from this setter and a nicely crafted theme which even I could not miss, though I did not recognise all the titles. ANNIE, CHESS, CAMELOT and HAMILTON my favourites though I could have easily nominated three times that number.
Thanks Picaroon and mc for a typically entertaining blog
What PostMark said.
Got the theme fairly early on for once before even looking at 14A. Very enjoyable. Good to see 2 of the absolute classic screen musicals ON THE TOWN and TOP HAT included. I didn’t get GOOF as although I considered it, I couldn’t parse it. I put in DORF which I think is OK as well: D = 500 = ‘a lot of’ & ORF, anagram (rot) of ‘for’.
Ta Picaroon and mc. Inexplicably failed to get GOOF and SAGA. And also the less obvious ENTRACTE. I counted AGAMEMNON as a musical in place of either CAN-CAN or PETER-PAN. I couldn’t decide!
A really enjoyable crossword, even though DNF here, goof eluded us as did Fermi despite having –rmi in mind, and referees being a fairly frequent topic in this household.I did not spot the theme until solving Cats, Hairspray and Annie, even though Sheffield Hatter and I had spoken about The Sound of Music a short time before, in a rambling phone conversation which started with the Hugo crossword from last week and ended with the marmite nature of this particular musical. Weird coincidence.
Very impressive to squeeze 14 theme words plus MUSICAL into the grid.
I particularly liked ANNIE and PETER PAN.
Thanks Picaroon and mcr.
This was enormous fun! Thank you very much, Picaroon.
Themes often sail right past me, but I saw this one early enough for it to be dead useful – although I had trouble making the list total 14. I wasn’t sure if GHOST was a musical as well as a film, nor whether Peter Pan had ever been set to music. So my final amount included both – along with AGAMEMNON and SAGA because, well, mebbe…???
Top left hand corner took an eternity: I had “Fauci” to begin with, and GOOF was a final, unparsed guess.
Big thanks also to mc for all the help and an entertaining blog.
As with many others GOOF was my last one in and once parsed I liked the clever use of the opposite of a lift and separate. Is this what Roz calls a Gossard as opposed to a Playtex?.
I was given free tickets to Camelot and, like Noel Coward, “came out whistling the scenery”.
Thanks to Picaroon and mc_rapper67
It’s the ingenuity and care which Picaroon takes over his surfaces that make him my favourite setter. This was no exception with almost every clue a minor gem. Failed with GOOF and FERMI but a great theme and a thoroughly enjoyable solve.
Thanks to Picaroon and to mc for the blog. Pleased to see that you are a fellow follower of the paradoxical Championship in which the rewards of success for supporters are a following season of abject misery. Don’t know which you support but both Baggies and Hull should make it this year.
Pino@33 the true Gossard is when you push two words together in the CLUE before solving.
I see I’m not the only one to fail on GOOF and FERMI, though I’d probably have got the latter if I hadn’t left the grid at home when I went away midweek.
If it had been necessary to identify the musicals I’d have been stuck (as Nascotwoodfrog hints @30 🙂 ), but most of the wordplay was understandable. A slight inaccuracy in the clue for 27d, I thought, with the reference to ’19’ when the intention was 19a. It was soon clear that ‘what people would PETER PAN for entertainment’ would make no sense in the surface, though. (Unless there’s some rhyming slang I’m not aware of.)
Thanks to Picaroon and mc_ as always.
An explicit rather than a ghost theme made this a rapid solve for me, despite the MUSICAL not being my bag; of those present I have seen only the film versions of CABARET and CHICAGO, though I recognised the names of the others. There are a rather a lot of verbose clues here, which is an occupational hazard in hyperthematic puzzles.
Enjoyable nevertheless, with a lot of clever clues- I particularly liked those for ANNIE, HAIRSPRAY, AD HOC, CHESS and SOLDIER ON.
Thanks to the Pirate and mc_etc.
Roz@35
Thank you
Gervase @37: those two are the Kander and Ebb musicals here–they are also responsible for Kiss of the Spider Woman (our own Arachne is not involved) and a few others less well-known. The films for both CABARET and CHICAGO depart fairly far from the respective stage versions, which is understandable: both shows are very stagey, and never allow you to forget you’re in a theater.
[mrpenney @39: Thanks for that additional information – I hadn’t registered the coincidence. The Kiss of the Spider Woman (great film original) isn’t an obvious choice for a musical, but the genre is so popular that practically everything gets musicalised these days.]
I got stuck for a while in the NE by confidently entering HAIRPLUGS at 12ac, though the agreement wasn’t quite there. Nice puzzle!
[mrpenney@18: Jonathan Larson’s tragic death wasn’t from AIDS, but from an aortic dissection–he had been complaining of symptoms for a few days and two hospitals misdiagnosed it, but it wasn’t a longstanding condition apparently.]
Musicals are not my thing, but that did not stop me from enjoying this quality puzzle. In any case, I recognised most of the thematic items. I have little to add to the comments already posted. I’m not sure if I have seen ‘potentially’ to indicate an anagram before. GOOF was my last in, and I entered it because I thought it likely to be correct, but I really should have ‘got’ it.
Thanks to Picaroon and mc_rapper.
Thanks for all the comments and feedback so far – much appreciated, as usual…
Looks like most enjoyed this – regardless of whether the MUSICAL PDM came first or last – or somewhere in between.
GOOF also seems to have been the LOI for a lot of people – glad I wasn’t alone!
I golfed reasonable successfully, and it wasn’t too chilly – thanks for your concern Tomsdad at #13 – quite sunny at the end, in fact. I only laboured the TRACT/plot quibble so I could get the ‘huuuge tracts of land’ gag in…and because it was just about the only thing I could find to quibble on!
I hope I got the right 14 musicals – there seem to have been a few suggestions for other ones…Gervase at #40 – if there has been a musical about CHESS (which I am guessing might actually be about chess?), then it can’t be long before ‘CROSSWORD – the musical’…coming to a stage near you soon…
lenmasterman at #34 – my father is a lifelong ‘Ull supporter, and he has instilled this into my son – I am more of a dabbler! The feeling amongst the real fans is that they’d rather not go up again too soon – mainly because of the ensuing ‘abject misery’ you mention!
Mr Womble@28. I was another DORF for GOOF, parsed the same way as you did.
D = 500 = ‘a lot of’ & ORF, anagram (rot) of ‘for’. I thought that was very clever, especially as I didn’t know the word ”dorf” and found it by sleuthing. I wonder if that would have been accepted if we’d submitted the Prize?
Thanks for the puzzle. I’ve seen two of the musicals — Chicago on stage and Cabaret at the movies, though I now gather from mrpenney that the film is quite different from the stage version, so now I want to see that!
Thanks to Picaroon for the puzzle with the brilliantly executed theme and mc_rapper for the accompaniment, though I actually finished the whole thing the night before.
Valentine – there’s a non-musical stage play, I Am A Camera by John van Druten, which also features the character Sally Bowles. Again, very different! All are based on the wonderful Berlin novels by Christopher Isherwood, which I would highly recommend.
Widddersbel@46
You may remember Dorothy Parker’s pithy review of “I Am A Camera” – “Me no Leica”.
Pino at #47…you beat me to it!…
Thanks both and a fascinating insight into the demographic of 14A MUSICAL.
(Seems to me that none have produced a ‘hit’ song since CABARET.) I was pleased to find from the blog that SOLDIER ON is not a musical, but wouldn’t have been surprised (cf Gervase@40). (I would go to see/hear/experience (help!) CROSSWORD the MUSICAL.)
Alan B@42: I can’t believe i missed ‘potentially’ as an anagrind. In mitigation, it may be obscure through lack of use – too obvious?
Welcome to Hell , here are your bagpipes and these are your tickets for the musicals. You need to go every night for the next three million years.
I’m with Shanne @24. I recoiled at the suggestion that Fermi was a scientific expert. He was a (real and proper) scientist!
I guess ‘expert scientist’ would have been OK.