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Re: Pro-am, local and regional opera and musical theatre gro Well, that's annoying. I just drafted a carefully considered reply (having logged in), only to have the site demand I log in again when I tried to post it. When I clicked on the "return to last page" (or however it reads) button, I...

Re: Pro-am, local and regional opera and musical theatre gro Well, it's almost exactly a week since I posted my last on this topic, and the complete lack of response speaks volumes. It would be easy to regard that as the take home message, but I can't help noticing that the last post date in...

Back in the ante-diluvian days some thirty years ago when I first went online (with Compuserve, accessed through my trusty old US Robotics 16k dial-up modem), I asked the question in a music chatroom "are DIY music theatre performing groups a peculiarly British phenomenon?". I received many...

I hear ya, Dustnite. I look at the US Constitution, and I'm green with envy. Then I look at the way it actually works, and I thank my lucky stars. As far as the midterms are concerned, you guys have the same problem as we have with local elections, which usually occur in the middle of a...

Evening Folks. Thanks for all your responses, which reassure me that, here at least, interest in the subject is not dead. I'm also, perversely perhaps, reassured to find paranoia about government (in all its forms) is rampantly healthy. A few more thoughts to throw in the mix: I sometimes...

I'm new to LoR, so I thought I'd kick off with (what I HOPE) is a biggy. I think it's an important issue anyway, since even the mature and relatively stable democracies (US and European) are showing signs of ailing. On the U.S. side, we have the Trump phenomenon (the idea of a Trump...