Bridgerton.
There s something to be said for shows and movies that make the bold choice
not to torture their audiences by ending on a frustrating, game-changing cliffhanger, and instead tie up just about every loose end in a neat if occasionally heartbreaking bow. Netflix s
Bridgerton is the latest addition to this illustrious genre: After seven episodes of society-shaking scandals and far more than its fair share of will-they, won t-they, who-even-is-she moments, the period drama s first season wraps up in an extended final episode that acts as a near-perfect epilogue to almost every single character s storyline.
While many other shows might merely extend the Regency-era drama into the last seconds of the finale, sending viewers to angrily tweet about needing a second season right this instant,
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By Charles Hutchinson
Beanstalk of the town: York s landmark Bile Beans sign, in Lord Mayor s Walk, has doubled in size thanks to a banner for York Stage s panto Jack And The Beanstalk JACK’s magical extra vegan beans at Theatre @41 Monkgate are not the only bean in York to be growing suddenly. The iconic Bile Beans sign on the side of a building in nearby Lord Mayor’s Walk has doubled in size to now read Bile Beanstalk to publicise York Stage’s debut pantomime, Jack And The Beanstalk. York Stage have joined forces with CSL Scaffolding, the York construction company, and Press Green, the York design and print agency in Lord Mayor’s Walk, to erect the complementary sign, advertising the show’s run with an arrow pointing in the direction of the theatre.
THIS is a York pantomime season like none before. York Theatre Royal has, like a council politician, taken to the wards seeking votes, in this case for the audience choice of Travelling Pantomime. Dame Berwick Kaler’s comeback on board Dick Turpin Rides Again, after his headline-making crosstown transfer to the Grand Opera House, has gone into Covid-enforced hibernation for a year. Likewise, Rowntree Players have taken the winter off. Yet, what’s this? A newcomer bean-sprouting up at Theatre @41 Monkgate, courtesy of York Stage’s debut pantomime, Jack And The Beanstalk, a show stuffed with West End talent with York and wider Yorkshire roots, bedding in nicely with socially-distanced performances for maximum audiences of 55 at the Covid-secure heart of Monkgateshire.
YORK has seen plenty of Ian Stroughair this year, online largely, from his Bishopthorpe kitchen in his cabaret guise as drag diva divine Velma Celli. From today, the West End musical actor, singer and dancer can be enjoyed in his home city like never before, making his York pantomime bow in York Stage’s Jack And The Beanstalk at the Covid-secure, socially distanced Theatre @41 Monkgate. Given his glamorous, glorious-voiced alter ego as Velma, you may have expected Ian to slip into the dame’s costumes, but “perhaps I’m a little young for dame,” he says. Instead, 6ft 5-in-his-boots Ian will be switching to the dark side, entering stage left as Flesh Creep in writer-director Nik Briggs’s 90-minute production on a traverse stage.