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So. Farewell then, Stephen Ward.

March 31, 2014Musicals, Theatre1960s, BLOATED PLUTOCRAT, Christopher Hampton, Don Black, Lloyd Webber, No Dusty Springfield or Pet Shop Boys, Scandal, Stephen WardViv Wilby

Stephen Ward, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s latest musical, opened with the usual fanfare just before Christmas, only to close four months later, dogged by lukewarm reviews and empty seats. Viv Wilby caught the show before it suffered the same fate as The Beautiful Game and Love Never Dies.

They’d already buried Stephen Ward before I got the chance to praise it. News broke last month that Andrew Lloyd Webber’s latest musical would close at the end of March after less than four months. I saw it in a half-empty theatre and the curtain has already come down for the last time. Continue reading So. Farewell then, Stephen Ward. →

MostlyFilm’s Review of 2013 – Television

December 16, 2013Best of 2013, TelevisionBreaking Bad, Broad City, Egg out of This Life, Elementary, GMOOH, Gogglebox, Great British Bake-off, Great British Pub Crawl Hand Job Brass Rubbing Jamboree, Great British Sewing Bee, High Maintenance, How I Met Your Mother, In the Flesh, It's Not Unusual, Kevin Spacey stamping on a human face forever., New Girl, Parks and Recreations, PLATE OF FOOD, Pointless, Scandal, The Apprentice, The ReturnedMostlyFilm

Welcome to MostlyFilm’s review of 2013, which we like to think of as pleasingly eccentric, rather than randomly boshed together. We’re here all week (try the brisket). We kick off with a review of the year in TV, with musings from Ricky Young on zombies, The Tramp on Elementary, Sarah Slade on the reality TV successes of the year, Viv Wilby on a reality near-miss, Ron Swanson on US comedy and drama, and Indy Datta on web TV.