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SpitLip’s sparkling spoof of British intelligence manoeuvres, with a finely varied score
and top-notch lyrics, will transfer to London’s Fortune theatre from 29 March.
There are further welcome West End transfers for Oklahoma!, sold out at the Young Vic
last spring, which opens at Wyndhams in February, and for Standing at the Sky’s Edge,
Chris Bush and Richard Hawley’s soaring hymn to Sheffield, which reruns in the city in
the new year and moves to the National in February. After a warm-up in Cheltenham,
Rachel Kavanaugh’s production of Great British Bakeoff – the Musical opens at London’s
Noël Coward in February.
Meanwhile, early in the new year, John Tiffany, director of Harry Potter and the Cursed
Child and Let the Right One in , will be workshopping Wild Rose, based on the 2018
movie, and aiming to put on a production in Scotland in 2024. Susannah Clapp

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Sergei Rachmaninov’s 150th anniversary

Rachmaninov at the Piccadilly Hotel, London, in 1938. Photograph: SuperStock/Alamy

Stand by for a flood of concerts across the UK marking the 150th anniversary of the
great Russian composer’s birth – some 50 events between January and June alone.
Widely regarded as one of the last representatives of Romanticism in classical music,
Rachmaninov left his homeland in the 1917 revolution and spent the second half of his
life in American exile, dying in Hollywood. His highly charged piano concertos made his
music hugely popular (not least after No 2 became the soundtrack of Brief Encounter).
Some highlights include Tenebrae singing his All-Night Vespers at St Martin-in-the-
Fields, London (26 January), Benjamin Grosvenor playing the second piano concerto at
Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool (9 February) and John Wilson conducting the Symphonic
Dances, Caird Hall, Dundee and Usher Hall, Edinburgh (9, 10 March). Stephen
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