I'd seen Merrily once before, though it was a student production we saw half-cut after a day at a festival, so probably not the best introduction to it... Loved this one though.
14. Final(?) Sondheim of the year - Merrily We Roll Along, Broadway filmed recording at the Light cinema.
Home Office data reveals 3,951 cyber-flashing offences have been recorded by police since it became a specific criminal offence
22nd November 2015
Someone once said to me that photography is all about where you stand.
13. Brassed Off, ADC again.
Some obvious production teething problems - but who cares when whole brass band on stage?
NEW: Homeless Deaths
Research by @ourmoh.bsky.social found 1,611 homeless people died across the UK in 2024, marking a 9% increase on the previous year
Research project director Matthew Turtle warned the data "shows how homeless people continue to be deeply failed"
🔗: app.radarai.com
Cambridge-style traffic jam this morning … and they weren’t inclined to moove 🐄 🚲
12. Something new! Unfolding, at the ADC.
Really enjoyed this one, hope it gets seen much more widely
NEW: Wheelchair Provision
Over 7,000 patients did not receive their required NHS wheelchair within four months this year, a 21% increase on last year. Muscular Dystrophy UK said people in dire need are being denied "life-changing equipment"
🔗: app.radarai.com
11. Disney's Hercules, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Sadly lacking in Danny DeVito
Ever wondered how things work here at RADAR?
Editor @l-a-kelly.bsky.social and data journalist @claramargotin.bsky.social recently hosted a group of media executives from Germany to talk about it.
You can read all about it here:
newsmachines.substack.com/p/radar-ai-n...
10. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Ambassadors Theatre, London, in a box for my mum's birthday. Which earned me some brownie points, at least
NEW: Football-Related Arrests
Home Office figures reveal there were over 1,900 football-related arrests in the 2024-25 season
Meanwhile, there were 2,400 active banning orders in force last month – preventing fans from attending matches
🔗: app.radarai.com
Manchester. Very good.
absolutely! Made for a pleasant surprise this morning
What it's replaced...
Enjoyed the new artwork on the Chisholm Trail bridge this morning
Cricket!
Interrupting a fortnight's holiday for 9, The Pirate Queen, at the Minack Theatre, at the very edge of Cornwall. The ADC has some way to go to match this view...
8. The Frogs, @swkplay.bsky.social.
If not the best of the year so far, certainly the best Sondheim show I've seen in some time
Research data management at its finest outside a building in Cambridge!
#RDM #research #librarians
Duck Gang
7. Jesus Christ Superstar, Cambridge ADC. A lot of Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webbering
![Poster for [title of show], a musical at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ezl43b3q6qwk2hzrcaltruwv/bafkreiessdyt6evcyarfrddy7bvz3cemrxy2otbvre7fnwh7sac5gojpzu)
6 [title of show], Cambridge ADC.
Because after four hours at the beer festival, why wouldn't you go see an impromptu musical about writing a musical?
5. More Sondheim, Here We Are at the National Theatre.
Definitely benefits from knowing nothing about it on the way in...
4. Tonight, back at the ADC for Amélie. Performances were great, but it turns out it definitely helps to have seen the film first to have any idea what's going on...
3. (I've messed this thread up already, but last Friday should have had something about Everybody's Talking About Jamie, at the ADC, Cambridge, which I've seen before, but is always good fun)
Today in 'Adam belatedly catches up with things everyone else knew years ago', Dear England is really good
