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63 years ago tonight Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? exploded on to Broadway. Uta Hagen played Martha and when she left the show she was replaced by, um, Elaine Stritch. Can you imagine? You don’t have to because 11 years later she recorded the whole damn thing.
AND HERE IT IS.
youtu.be/sx2qZmT4lGc

Whos's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Act 1 (Elaine Stritch)

YouTube video by Vodka Stinger

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 20h

Glad to see you travel with a personal photographer.

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 21h

Judge Dreyer, as you may henceforth be known.

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 22h

63 years ago tonight Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? exploded on to Broadway. Uta Hagen played Martha and when she left the show she was replaced by, um, Elaine Stritch. Can you imagine? You don’t have to because 11 years later she recorded the whole damn thing.
AND HERE IT IS.
youtu.be/sx2qZmT4lGc

Whos's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Act 1 (Elaine Stritch)

YouTube video by Vodka Stinger

youtu.be

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 1d

Post you from a different era.

This, obviously, should have been the cover of my tricky second album (acoustic).

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 1d

#grin
To be fair, she's not nearly as bad as one imagines she would be.

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 1d

The album is (blessedly) unique. That said, I made a Radio 3 programme devoted to the highs and (very) lows of crossover music which included this unexpected performance of 'Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix', the greatest hit from Saint-Saëns' opera Samson et Dalila... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijNI...

Mae West et Vladimir Bykoff « Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix » /Saint-Saëns

YouTube video by Par si, par la

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 1d

I see you and raise you…
youtu.be/-w_J489zbEg

Dirk Bogarde - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

YouTube video by MisterCanning

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 1d

hear bare
hear bear
heard beard
herd
#GoodLuckESLers

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 1d

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 1d

Thin ice…

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 2d

Or, as Fran Lebowitz famously observed, “A book is not supposed to be a mirror. It’s supposed to be a door.”

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 2d

EXACTLY!
‘Where once there was a yearning to be “exposed to something extraordinary”, today politicians and arts administrators are besotted by the notion of “relevance”, of the arts as something with which people must immediately identify or recognise.’ observer.co.uk/news/columni...

It’s not opera that’s elitist but the idea that art is to...

The myth that culture has not been for the masses is debunked in a new book

observer.co.uk

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 2d

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 2d

Beautifully argued.

David Barbour @davidbarbour.bsky.social · 2d

Broadway and Off: Beckett-a-rama: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in an unlikely Godot and Stephen Rea rolling Krapp's Last Tape:

www.lightingandsoundamerica.com/news/story.a...

Theatre in Review: Waiting for Godot (Hudson Theatre)/Krapp's Last Tape (NYU Skirball) - Lighting&Sound America Online News

How do you like your Samuel Beckett? Frothy and starry, or straight, no chaser? In New York this week, you have a choice: A slicked-up revival of Waiting for Godot, starring Hollywood's once and ...

www.lightingandsoundamerica.com

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 3d

Nonsense.

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 3d

I grew up in the countryside and have been on a horse precisely twice: once at about 8 and then at about 11. On neither occasion did I feel remotely at home but then Jews on Horseback feels like a strikingly slim volume.
Am much fonder of moose. And horseradish. Though not together.

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 3d

When you’re hosting events at the Isle of Wight Literary Festival and the island’s garlic farm donates deliciousness into the goodie bags.
#morehorseradishnow
#bliss

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 3d

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