There’s no way for any production of Suddenly Last Summer to completely avoid at least a whiff of camp.
Dame Rosalind Plowright complains that unlike most other voiceless 68 year old singers, she has trouble finding work.
“In her first television acting job [Dame Kiri te Kanawa] portrays Dame Nellie Melba, her fellow antipodean soprano, whose purity of voice inspired a peach-based pudding.”
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