TOSCA     Coliseum,  St Martin’s Lane. & a farewell).

… A FINALE SIGN-OFF FROM THEATRECAT.COM AFTER 13 YEARS This, written largely on a diverted 453 bus on the night of the Regent St lights switch-on, is the last review on this theatrecat.com site. It has been fun, and interesting, and wonderfully supported with press seats for which I am grateful. But being free -to-air it has become hideously expensive in travel – – I live 100 miles from London and still further from other centres of the art – and expensive in time and energy too. So alas, no more: because if a site is going to be worth doing and respectful of readers , productions and actors, it has to be done properly, and not as a capricious me-blog , bagging tickets but only doing the lollipops. I shall still be a paying, appreciative audience quite often. And so to TOSCA: I had planned to stop after the RSC Middlemarch (below) if only to make terrible Mao-miaow jokes about The Long Middlemarch To Freedom. But ENO has been good to me, recognizing perhaps that even a musical…

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