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Post by oxfordsimon on Feb 1, 2023 21:05:17 GMT
65 is too young.
A brilliantly funny writer and performer
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Feb 4, 2023 21:14:10 GMT
Saw Kit and the Widow as support act to Joan Rivers. Hilarious and clever.
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Post by karloscar on Feb 5, 2023 13:42:57 GMT
He was always very funny and quick with a riposte. I'd forgotten that he adapted EM Forster's Maurice for Merchant Ivory too.
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Post by Fleance on Feb 5, 2023 14:35:30 GMT
So sorry to hear this sad news. I enjoyed seeing Kit and the Widow in Salad Days, at the Vaudeville Theatre in 1996. There's a very amusing and endearing bio of them in the programme.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Feb 5, 2023 15:37:54 GMT
They worked with Sondheim when he was the first Cam Mack professor at Oxford. But their musical about Rasputin never had a successful run
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