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    Russell Beale on song as Bach

    Aug 26, 2021 3 minutes
    Anne McElvoy on Theatre

    EDGING OUT OF THE PANDEMIC, with steep loans to repay and nervous audiences to lure back to the lost habits of cramming into an auditorium to guffaw and applaud, the Bridge Theatre is one of the newer commercial theatres competing for premier league talent strong enough to carry a production through an unpredictable summer on a long run.

    On cue here comes Simon Russell Beale, a “he shoots, he scores” bankable performer who is one of the transfers to the Bridge lured by Nick

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