Rocky Horror is now in its 50th year – making it the longest running contemporary stage musical in the world, seen by 30 million people in more than 30 countries.
The B-movie parody/tribute is Frankensteined together from pantomime, Hammer House of Horror and Carry On, and has become a cult classic. It’s about Brad and his fiancée Janet, who end up at a creepy castle during a storm when they get a flat tyre. Read More...
Marshalling composers, conductors and musicians from across the world into 75 concerts over the two-month festival is a spectacular feat of organisation. The key, says Wright, is the willingness to let the programme grow its own shape. Elements are shifted and sorted, like pieces of a vast mosaic, until a coherent “season” emerges.
“I’m the person with overall responsibility, but it is a team effort,” says Wright. “The Proms is a focus for the whole music industry and suggestions come in from all over the place – from my own colleagues on the Proms team and Radio 3, from BBC performance groups, from publishers, from the artists themselves, from people who want to visit with their own orchestras. Read More...
"Don't you think that the closer that they are and the stronger that they are together, the more vulnerable they become?" she said.
"When you love someone that's when it can really really hurt. If you don't care about someone or you're not bothered by it then it doesn't hurt so much, but now they're closer than ever so out of that great love comes great vulnerability too."
And in the finale, that was cemented. Read More...
