#alice cornwell

[itsmyregularcat]

It is time for an Alice Cornwell (who was a swing Electra) as Lightning Electra appreciation post because everyone needs more Electra content, and this is some primo Electra content.

This was for a promo shoot in Basel, Switzerland for the 2016 UK Tour. Look at how great they are!

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Bet you thought you’d seen the last of Victor when the original London production closed in 2002! But no - he persisted as a swing character in the UK tours, the London revival, and, according to these photos, the international tour! Here he’s Nathan Zach Johnson (September 2017)

In the second photo he’s with the other four booth swings (excluding the walking cover, the one who understudies Deuteronomy and Gus). Left to right: Alice Cornwell as 'lightning' Electra, Nell Martin as Not-Quite-Jenny, Alexandra Girard as regular Electra, Dane Quixall as Bill Bailey with Carbuckety’s wig, and Nathan Zach Johnson as Victor.

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Electra (Alice Cornwell) and George (Dane Quixall), UK tour 2016

[yallambie]

A Blake Mystery

When it comes to detective fiction it is perhaps a little known fact that the biggest selling crime novel of the 19th century appeared in that quondam den of iniquity, boom time Melbourne after the gold rushes. Released in 1886 a full year before the first Conan Doyle, in the words of one modern review the Australian novel ‘The Mystery of a Handsome Cab’ was “a crucial point in the genre’s…

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