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“When will you make an end?” These are the memorable words from the 1965 movie The Agony and the Ecstasy. They are the words of a beleaguered Pope Julius II – Rex Harrison, taking time off from haranguing Eliza Doolittle to harangue the renaissance artist Michelangelo (played by Charlton Heston) into completing his famous frescos […]

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I’m doing it. I’m living the dream. In just seven weeks’ time, my new musical Fanatical will receive a professional workshop in London – the first step towards its premiere production. Yikes. The development of a new musical is an exhilarating and scary process for any writer. Moss Hart once said that you never really learn […]

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