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It's perfectly normal to buy the cast recording, to take the memory of those fantastic songs with you. And there's nothing wrong with looking up reviews of the show or listening to interviews with the cast.

And when a live performance is broadcast on TV, naturally you want to tape a copy to keep. And when you borrow Recollections of a Bleeding Heart, well, you're only educating yourself about history and politics. And everyone already knows that Wikipedia is a source of endless fascination.

But when you find yourself at midnight downloading YouTube videos of Question Time debates from over a decade ago, that's when you have to step away from the keyboard and go have a quiet lie down.
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So last night was the Keating! special sing along show. No, I didn't go, but I was a little tempted - I've listened to the CD about a billion times over the last couple of weeks, and I reckon by now I probably could sing most of it off by heart. It happens with every new favourite musical of mine, and I've become uncommonly fond of this one. And yay, I now have my own copy of the ABC2 live broadcast from last week, thanks to [livejournal.com profile] pelrun's heads up, so I can rewatch at my leisure.

And now my appetite has been whetted for more musicals - so far this year I've seen Chess and I've seen Keating! and I would have seen Wicked except that they decided not to come to Sydney, damn them, and I'm not quite prepared to hike down to Melbourne just for that. I wish it was like London or New York where you have a crazy smorgasboard to choose from, but I guess neither of those places could have given us Keating! which as one reviewer said is totally brilliant but absolutely unexportable.

Apparently there also exists TONY! The Blair Musical. Who would have thought?
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There is something irresistible about the idea of a musical about Australian politics - to take a subject so pedestrian and unromantic, and elevate it to the high drama of musical theatre. But if ever an Australian politician fit the role of protagonist in such a drama, there could be no better choice than the colourful, infuriating, and occasionally visionary Paul Keating, and no better setting than the memorable years of his prime ministership.

Keating! is that musical, a much lauded, award winning production that will be winding up its long run at the end of the month. I saw it at the Seymour Centre last weekend, and it was every bit as hilarious and nostalgic as I had hoped.

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