On 30 Nov 2007 at 3:20, Allen Esterson wrote: > Stephen Black wrote: > > > Must it only be books?? I nominate to the list a wonderful musical > > > called "Blood Brothers." <snip> > > > It's a really enjoyable musical, but also very > > > telling about the British class structure.
Actually, it was Beth Benoit who provided that evaluative judgement, but I concur with her perceptive opinion. I saw it in London. Interestingly, I recall that when it finally came to Broadway, it received only a lukewarm reception and the critics weren't kind. This may have been because it was rather economical with its songs, recycling them to stretch out the music. Or else because tough-minded Yanks just don't appreciate a good, maudlin, two-hanky weeper. My wife and I did. (It's about separated twins. It could have been ripped from the pages of _The Nurture Assumption__ and _No Two Alike_). Wikipedia claims it's one of the longest-running plays of all time, going on 20 years now in London's West End. But not on Broadway. > > > Like Marilyn Monroe to which Allen said: > Glad you've found your way back to the computer, Stephen, even if your > contribution is too cryptic for me. Yes, that one was mine, and I do love a good cryptic comment (which Beth immediately appreciated). For those of you who are blood brotherless, go to http://tinyurl.com/2gqvnj , scan down, and play selection # 9, whereupon all will become clear. Or go here: http://tinyurl.com/22nury > > Annette Taylor wrote: > > [...] I can't understand why Shakespeare and Conan Doyle didn't > > make the list... Actually, for a book that really, really "explains Britain", how could we forget the one by the great A. A. Milne which glorifies a Canadian Ursus Americanus. My well-used copy of this work which I've had since childhood is dated "McClelland & Stewart, Press of the Hunter-Rose Co. Toronto, 1925. That date is significant because standard sources will tell you it was first published in Britain in 1926. Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---
