David Benedict ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ•Ž (@eggsbened) 's Twitter Profile
David Benedict ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ•Ž

@eggsbened

Cultural talk & typing. And singing. An encampment of tweets. @Variety Associate Writer @TheStage. Biographer of Sondheim. Tristram Hawkshaw | The Archers.

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David Benedict ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ•Ž (@eggsbened) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today! Iโ€™m singing Bernsteinโ€™s zinger Chichester Psalms in a really terrific programme including orchestral fanfares by Joan Tower and Aaron Copland, Brittenโ€™s Frank Bridge Variations and his extraordinary AMDG 6.30-8.15pm Quote OUTCRY59โ€™for 50% discount. sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/a-commonโ€ฆ

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Congratulations. You've found the link to the least accurate thing anyone ever wrote about Brexit. Daniel Hannan penned a piece 2 days before the referendum explaining what life would be like on 24 June 2025, ie today. It's worth a read for the laughs. reaction.life/p/britain-lookโ€ฆ

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Musical theatre... it's all so dramatically unsophisticated. Nonsense. Regardless of how much the (usually ill-informed) haters hate, the finest new musical theatre in its many forms is forever breaking rules. thestage.co.uk/opinion/expectโ€ฆ

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When is a musical not a musical? When theatremakers look beyond the creaky West End model and think differently about the form and content, says David Benedict (David Benedict ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ•Ž) ๐Ÿ‘‡ thestage.co.uk/opinion/expectโ€ฆ

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Locusts! Frogs! Flies! Darkness! The word-painting in Handelโ€™s Great Escape oratorio is even more vivid and dynamic than in his Messiah (and it's shorter.) I'm singing it on 12 July with @elysiansingers in the marvellous acoustic of St. Gabrielโ€™s. tickettailor.com/events/theelysโ€ฆ

Locusts! Frogs! Flies! Darkness! The word-painting in Handelโ€™s Great Escape oratorio is even more vivid and dynamic than in his Messiah (and it's shorter.)
I'm singing it on 12 July with @elysiansingers in the marvellous acoustic of St. Gabrielโ€™s.
tickettailor.com/events/theelysโ€ฆ
David Benedict ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ•Ž (@eggsbened) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Iโ€™m the gay who doesnโ€™t adore The Sound of Music. I know. But hearing Scarlet Strallenโ€™s soaring soprano with the spectacular playing of John Wilsonโ€™s Sinfonia of London in the Main Title and I was transported. A majestic evening of Rodgers & Hammerstein. sinfoniaoflondon.com/concerts/

Iโ€™m the gay who doesnโ€™t adore The Sound of Music.
I know.
But hearing Scarlet Strallenโ€™s soaring soprano with the spectacular playing of John Wilsonโ€™s Sinfonia of London in the Main Title and I was transported. A majestic evening of Rodgers & Hammerstein. sinfoniaoflondon.com/concerts/
David Benedict ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ•Ž (@eggsbened) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I met Mark Brokaw in 1992 when he directed Kenneth Lonerganโ€™s Lobby Hero. We were chums forever after, eating, talking theatre and art, and laughing - his wit was bone dry - whenever we were in each otherโ€™s cities. And now heโ€™s gone. Far, far too soon. RIP theguardian.com/theobserver/20โ€ฆ

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Yes itโ€™s week one of Wimbledon but the most nail-biting tennis ever filmed is the race-against-time match in Hitchcockโ€™s homo-erotic thriller Strangers on a Train starring hot Farley Granger. And since today is his 100th birthday, we should all watch it. youtu.be/J1iSS5r0OVE

Yes itโ€™s week one of Wimbledon but the most nail-biting tennis ever filmed is the race-against-time match in Hitchcockโ€™s homo-erotic thriller Strangers on a Train starring hot Farley Granger. And since today is his 100th birthday, we should all watch it. youtu.be/J1iSS5r0OVE
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Never seen Evita? Youโ€™ll need to read a synopsis before watching Jamie Lloydโ€™s version. Undeniably dazzling, butโ€ฆ variety.com/2025/legit/revโ€ฆ

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Eva Marie Saint is 101 today! Never seen her most delicious performance? Sheโ€™s one of umpteen reasons to see Hitchcockโ€™s spellbinding North by Northwest, one of the two greatest comedy thrillers: as funny as it is nail-bitingly suspenseful Happy Bithday! youtu.be/GVrjgLL6r_0