MLMary Leland

1. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Mary Leland

   Judy: End of the Rainbow review – Anna-Jane Casey’s voice soars as it conveys a heart almost ritually broken (opens the original)

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   In her heyday the American singer and actor Judy Garland had millions of fans. To judge by the applause at the end of this presentation, many of them are in the audience on the opening here of Peter Quilter’s play, nearly 60 years after her death. The script concentrates on the final year of Garland’s life. This was emphatically not her heyday, yet the tight structure of the dialogue is studded with crisp one-liners, lightening even torrential rows with flashes of her verbal and mental vivac

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2. Article · Jul 27, 2026 · Mary Leland

   The Sound of Music at Cork Opera House: Ecstatic, five-star production of beloved show (opens the original)

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   After more than 60 years of theatrical supremacy, something approaching ecstasy is expected from any presentation of this Rodgers and Hammerstein marvel. Ecstasy is here delivered. By Do-Re-Mi – “Doe, a deer, a female deer” – all resistance to charm has been conquered. Maria is a young Austrian nun who doubts her vocation and meets her destiny in a family of motherless children. It’s almost old-fashioned, yet this narrative of fractured loyalties is not a fairytale. As the jubilant dec

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