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This might just be my epitaph in picture form!

@outonbluesix You got me at Pink Panther Bars...

Ricardo Autobahn joins me for a chat about Pink Panther Bars, the Panther 6, Victor Lewis-Smith's Inside The Magic Rectangle, Hot Wheels Crack-Ups, I Live In A Giant Mushroom by Eric The Gardener and a terrifying giant Sooty... timworthington.org/2024/05/01/loo…

@outonbluesix I had the pleasure of interviewing her once and she was simply lovely and very generous with her time. However, given what she is most famous for, I hope that she secretly voiced all the puppets she worked with in Boomerang.

TV THAT TIME FORGOT: Boomerang (KOMO, 1975-80) Entirely original and not at all derivative basic numeracy and literacy pre-school education hosted by moonlighting Broadway legend Marni Nixon and what can only be described as some Haunted Muppets.

@JHolmesEsq In fairness, many a politician asks to be judged on their record. This is a touch more literal.

The lyrics are a bit bizarre, though bonus points for rhyming the word “hamper” “Though foes mistake thee, We will not forsake thee, You’ll pull us through Stanley Boy. “Socialists will hamper, Lloyd George prove a damper, In our hour of need Stanley Boy” etc etc.

Picked up a very interesting bit of #GeneralElection history today. This was a 1929 recording called “Stanley Boy”, written to promote Stanley Baldwin in the general election that year. It was a pun on the song “Sonny Boy” introduced by Al Jolson in ‘28. Cant wait to transfer it!

@madbardmike Mike, I know great pianists such as yourself practice going up and down the scales but I don't think you're supposed to do it by standing the keyboards on their side.

Composing music for a VR game. Am I doing this right?

@wake_oliver My mother (elderly) always uses that pronunciation so I can report its usage "in real life".

@musichallsoc The last act to play the much missed Chiswick Empire, also in 1959.

AND sharing the same birthdate as Roy Hudd and #MusicHallVarietyDay is LIBERACE! Born #OTD 1919 in Wisconsin, he was a frequent visitor to the UK and #Variety theatres. Seen here at the Finsbury Park Empire in 1959 #mhvd2024

@outonbluesix The pink panther strawberry chocolate bar is one of the few properly out-of-reach things from my youth - I simply cannot find anything that claims to be strawberry chocolate now that tastes like it - and my life is the poorer for that.

New Looks Unfamiliar coming soon, featuring all of this and more...!!

@agnes_guano Getting a lovely early Avengers vibe from this. I wonder if like Bond not being the only "Double O" agent, Mother has a number of Steedalikes, with their equally splendid Mrs Peels (et al) out in the field, and that in an untelevised series, Simon Cadell was one of them.

@musicaltalk It was consequently (I believe) the very first fringe festival and all later fringe festivals were named after it. So the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a fringe festival that forms the fringe of the Edinburgh Festival - and so it is officially the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. QED.

@musicaltalk Well, if you insist! The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is so called as it came about when shows that were not permitted to join the august (and in August) original Edinburgh Festival came along anyway and styled themselves as being on the fringe of the Edinburgh Festival.

Good thing @MusicalTalkThos has always referred to it properly! There is a difference between the two, though! He will explain.

@archivetvmus71 They all did very well.

Good morning.

'A magnificent work about freedom, democracy, liberty' @MusicalTalkThos @musicaltalk. Dreams of Peace & Freedom explores the birth of modern human rights through the eyes of its British artisan, David Maxwell Fyfe. Watch the trailer⬇️ vimeo.com/595934561

Thanks to @musicaltalk for having us on. It was great to talk to @MusicalTalkThos about everything to do with Potty 🌱 Go check it out now! There are a sneak peak from our cast album, as well as a song from our sister show @FringeMusical24 💚 #edfringe open.spotify.com/episode/5RbsUc…

This man has brought me lifelong joy!

@waltydunlop Nice to see his Androgum eyebrows a few years early...

@outonbluesix And if you freeze frame, you can see the latter - the rare sight of a "cymbal mute".

@outonbluesix I had the extraordinary pleasure of interviewing John Gieves-Watson of the Temperance Seven once; they play the interrupted band in the end sequence: John usually plays the big banjo but as that was not suitable for a brass band scene, they gave him the cymbals (with a dampener)

The Wrong Box - a 1966 historical crime caper movie starring pretty much anyone who was anyone in British comedy at the time, ancient and modern - is one of my absolute favorite movies, and here's a chat about exactly how much I love it... timworthington.org/2022/05/03/the…

@StuartHumphryes Oh, the stylish imprecision of Victorian tailoring!

In the era of Ai it is sometimes difficult to discern the genuine photos from the fake. Especially then the real photos are so extraordinary! I have cleaned and enhanced these 4 Victorian protraits (which are all completely genuine). They all date from around 1850.

@mrstandler @DougalIrvine @rachelJgriff @TaniAzevedo_ @Finn_Anderson @MTheatreNetwork @JamesSHadley @thebenjamintill @lapworthalice *writer*singular, but you get my point!

@mrstandler @DougalIrvine @rachelJgriff @TaniAzevedo_ @Finn_Anderson @MTheatreNetwork @JamesSHadley @thebenjamintill @lapworthalice Dougal is a top notch writers of musicals - and a lovely man too.

I first started developing #MusicalTheatre with my students at @COLCollege and we worked on former student @SamThomas_Music show. I don't have any footage from that workshop from 2013/4 (?) but here's Laura Pick singing a song from the show rb.gy/2x62ca

The song Time on My Hands always moves me somehow even when I'm only obliquely hearing it in the background as I do something else. I wonder what it's power is.