The Independent - London, July 20th, 1996
Poor Jane Austen. She should have died hereafter. That way she could have lived to collaborate with Andrew Lloyd Webber and really cleaned up. Not so fanciful a notion as you might imagine. Long before Alison Steadman hooted her way through the BBC Pride and Prejudice, Hermione Gingold was, by all accounts, a redoubtable Mrs Bennet in the 1959 Broadway musical First Impressions. The show was originally entitled A Perfect Evening, and having heard the score, I can attest to the wisdom of the name change. Only someone lately returned from a year spent trekking in the Himalayas could fail to hav...
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