Garrick Theatre

Uh, I'm going to The Producers closing night.

Um, that's closing in London at the Garrick Theatre.

I've always wanted to see that.

Well, you've missed it.

Outside it was growing gloomy.

The matinee at the Garrick Theatre was over and the afternoon playgoers had all gone their various ways while the long string of light carts belonging to the Pall Mall Gazette stood opposite ready to distribute the special edition of that journal in every part of London.

The wind blew gustily and the people passing were compelled to clutch their hats.

Inside however a bright fire burned and I had set my easiest chair ready for the reception of the dainty girl who held me beneath her spell.

I didn't ask to go in the room.

I just wanted to, you know, just find out, you know, because he was in a play called, I think, One Wild Oats with Robertson Hare at the Garrick Theatre.

Had gone to bed that evening and had died in his sleep, aged 69, I think.

It was 1949.

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The work of multi-award winning lyricist Don Black, spanning more than five decades, is to be celebrated in From the Heart, which had a short sold-out run last year and returns to London's Garrick Theatre this October.

I spoke to Clive Rowe, who stars in the production alongside Caroline O'Connor and Michael D. Xavier, and asked him to explain a bit about the show.

From the Heart, it's...

So that's, I guess, when Holland's birthday party is happening, if you wanna come.

The 16th in Bristol, the 18th in Cheltenham, the 19th in Manchester, the 22nd in Birmingham, the 23rd in Brighton, the 24th at the Garrick Theatre in London, hosted by the Slumflower.

And do you know what? When I'm in Birmingham, Joe Lycett has an exhibit there currently, And I wasn't able to go to the opening in July, but that exhibit of his beautiful works runs until February.

So I'm going to go to that.