![]() This is immersive theatre with real point. The Hot Box cabaret rises and sinks across the way, Mindy’s deli glides into view steam puffs up from the manhole through which gamblers slip into the sewers. Paule Constable’s essential lighting and Christie’s design create a neonorama: scarlet caps and orange cursive, a luminous barber pole, a bendy, lime-green arrow. In what is becoming a Bridge speciality, different scenes are staged on platforms that move around a standing audience of 420 (there are 600 sitting spectators). ![]() Fuelled by Bunny Christie’s design, Tom Brady’s musical supervision and choreography by Arlene Phillips with James Cousins, it swings up, down and sideways, enveloping the audience without ever dimming the dazzle of performance. This staging never stops powering through. The musical numbers are nonstop sumptuous – in fact, such a glory roll that logjam can threaten: “showstopper” is not always a recommendation when the show must go on. The plot – hinging on collision and elision between card sharps and salvationists – is energetic, tender and shrewd. Dialogue and lyrics take off from Damon Runyon’s short stories, crackling and punching. This 1950 musical (music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows) has everything. Tickets for Nicholas Hytner’s production of Guys & Dolls will be the most sought after of the season. Project Sunrise will launch in late 2025, and we suspect it will be worth the wait. In short: hold off on the Australian vacation for a few years. The A350s also represent progress from an environmental standpoint they use up to 20 percent less fuel than other similarly sized aircraft. Those who seek zen over gluttony will head to the Wellbeing Zone, which will offer movement classes alongside nutritious meals and beverages. ![]() Sliding doors, fully reclining beds, stylish recliners, and 32-inch touch-screen televisions are only a few of the seductive amenities. More than 40 percent of the seats will be allocated to premium accommodations, and the six first-class and 52 business-class cabins are more appealing than most hotel rooms. The airline’s new Project Sunrise service will make the entire experience a pleasure they have ordered a fleet of 12 A350s that will serve only 238 passengers in total. ![]() Soon enough, there will be no need to dread a flight from London or New York to Sydney-if you’re flying on Qantas, that is. Under closer examination, several stories begin to unravel, leaving only one thing certain-it’s up to the listener to decide who, and what, to believe. Their testimonies, along with the original police interviews, offer dramatically different versions of what happened. Returning to Laramie to investigate, Barker speaks with those closest to the crime-the family, the roommate, the lead detective, and the suspect himself, former police officer Fred Lamb. A quick search during the pandemic brought some startling information: 31 years after Shelli’s murder, an arrest had finally been made. The case went cold, but Barker never forgot about Shelli, or Laramie. In 1985, when Barker was a sophomore at Laramie High School, 22-year-old college student Shelli Wiley was stabbed 11 times in her apartment complex on the west side of the Wyoming town. “Whenever I talked about the roughest place I’d ever lived, I’d always say Laramie,” says Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Kim Barker in a new podcast from the Serial creators.
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