John Eldon
@johneldon.bsky.social
I'm interested in piano music (musical theatre, jazz, classical), cooking (Mediterranean, Middle Eastern), reading, film musicals, left politics, queer theology and some other stuff. 🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸
Noooo!!! 😭😭😭
Be-do-be-da-da-de-zibbly-bop-Nooooo!
#CleoLaine #RIPCleoLaine #jazz
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Be-do-be-da-da-de-zibbly-bop-Nooooo!
#CleoLaine #RIPCleoLaine #jazz
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Cleo Laine, Britain's most successful jazz singer, dies aged 97
Versatile singer straddled jazz, classical, pop and musical theatre with four-octave range, and collaborated for decades with husband, John Dankworth
www.theguardian.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Noooo!!! 😭😭😭
Be-do-be-da-da-de-zibbly-bop-Nooooo!
#CleoLaine #RIPCleoLaine #jazz
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Be-do-be-da-da-de-zibbly-bop-Nooooo!
#CleoLaine #RIPCleoLaine #jazz
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
July 25, 2025 at 5:31 AM
I'd give anything for a rummage through it! 😮
#Broadway #Sondheim #musicals #musicaltheatre
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...
#Broadway #Sondheim #musicals #musicaltheatre
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...
‘A privilege and a great pleasure’: inside the 5,000-item Stephen Sondheim collection
A treasure trove of manuscripts, notebooks and recordings from the theatre legend has been acquired by the Library of Congress in Washington DC
www.theguardian.com
July 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I'd give anything for a rummage through it! 😮
#Broadway #Sondheim #musicals #musicaltheatre
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...
#Broadway #Sondheim #musicals #musicaltheatre
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...
Just discovered this exists. Yes, gin infused with crayfish claws. Of course I've ordered a sample!
July 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Just discovered this exists. Yes, gin infused with crayfish claws. Of course I've ordered a sample!
"Too Darn Hot!" ... I bought this fan when we saw 'Kiss Me Kate' last year. Very handy!! 🥵
June 21, 2025 at 7:41 AM
"Too Darn Hot!" ... I bought this fan when we saw 'Kiss Me Kate' last year. Very handy!! 🥵
May 1, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Appalling pandering to the far right and other hate-mongers. Labour has some serious work cut out if they ever want my vote again.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/25/l...
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/25/l...
Just four of Labour's 59 LGBTQ+ MPs confirm they believe trans women are women
PinkNews asked all 59 out LGBTQ+ Labour MPs whether trans women are women following Keir Starmer's comments
www.thepinknews.com
April 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Appalling pandering to the far right and other hate-mongers. Labour has some serious work cut out if they ever want my vote again.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/25/l...
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/25/l...
"In your Easter bonnet, with a florists shop upon it..."🎶🎵
Audrey Hepburn by Cecil Beaton.
Apologies to Irving Berlin.
#Easter #easterbonnet #easterparade #audreyhepburn #CecilBeaton #IrvingBerlin
Audrey Hepburn by Cecil Beaton.
Apologies to Irving Berlin.
#Easter #easterbonnet #easterparade #audreyhepburn #CecilBeaton #IrvingBerlin
April 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"In your Easter bonnet, with a florists shop upon it..."🎶🎵
Audrey Hepburn by Cecil Beaton.
Apologies to Irving Berlin.
#Easter #easterbonnet #easterparade #audreyhepburn #CecilBeaton #IrvingBerlin
Audrey Hepburn by Cecil Beaton.
Apologies to Irving Berlin.
#Easter #easterbonnet #easterparade #audreyhepburn #CecilBeaton #IrvingBerlin
"Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! The tomb in which the loveliest of men was laid is empty, unable to bind life to decay, powerless to shroud the glory and the beauty of Jesus and his love. Alleluia!"
- Philip Newell
#resurrection #Easter
- Philip Newell
#resurrection #Easter
April 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
"Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! The tomb in which the loveliest of men was laid is empty, unable to bind life to decay, powerless to shroud the glory and the beauty of Jesus and his love. Alleluia!"
- Philip Newell
#resurrection #Easter
- Philip Newell
#resurrection #Easter
April 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Legend is right, but 'yesteryear'?? There are some other legends on the multiple covers that 'New York' magazine did that we'll likely never see on Broadway again, but Patti is still going. Hurrah!
#Broadway #PattiLupone
#Broadway #PattiLupone
April 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Legend is right, but 'yesteryear'?? There are some other legends on the multiple covers that 'New York' magazine did that we'll likely never see on Broadway again, but Patti is still going. Hurrah!
#Broadway #PattiLupone
#Broadway #PattiLupone
Raspberry Ripple?!?!!! 🤯😬😱🙄
I've also seen blueberry, salted caramel, raspberry and white chocolate, and tiramisu!! Argh!! Yuk! Abominations all!!
#HotCrossBuns #Easter #cooking #baking
I've also seen blueberry, salted caramel, raspberry and white chocolate, and tiramisu!! Argh!! Yuk! Abominations all!!
#HotCrossBuns #Easter #cooking #baking
April 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Raspberry Ripple?!?!!! 🤯😬😱🙄
I've also seen blueberry, salted caramel, raspberry and white chocolate, and tiramisu!! Argh!! Yuk! Abominations all!!
#HotCrossBuns #Easter #cooking #baking
I've also seen blueberry, salted caramel, raspberry and white chocolate, and tiramisu!! Argh!! Yuk! Abominations all!!
#HotCrossBuns #Easter #cooking #baking
RIP Richard Chamberlain.
Unforgettable with Barbara Stanwyck in 'The Thorn Birds'.
#RichardChamberlain #BarbaraStanwyck #TheThornBirds #classictv
Unforgettable with Barbara Stanwyck in 'The Thorn Birds'.
#RichardChamberlain #BarbaraStanwyck #TheThornBirds #classictv
March 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
RIP Richard Chamberlain.
Unforgettable with Barbara Stanwyck in 'The Thorn Birds'.
#RichardChamberlain #BarbaraStanwyck #TheThornBirds #classictv
Unforgettable with Barbara Stanwyck in 'The Thorn Birds'.
#RichardChamberlain #BarbaraStanwyck #TheThornBirds #classictv
Totally with the Quakers on this. So, PM, how about repeal of the repressive Tory-introduced Acts?
#Quakers #RightToProtest
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#Quakers #RightToProtest
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Met raids Quaker meeting house and arrests six women at Youth Demand talk
At least 20 officers forced their way into property and police said some present were planning direct action in London
www.theguardian.com
March 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Totally with the Quakers on this. So, PM, how about repeal of the repressive Tory-introduced Acts?
#Quakers #RightToProtest
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#Quakers #RightToProtest
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
'Annunciation to the Virgin Mary' and 'Angel of the Annunciation' by Salvador Dali.
#Annunciation #angel #angels #art #SalvadorDali
#Annunciation #angel #angels #art #SalvadorDali
March 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
'Annunciation to the Virgin Mary' and 'Angel of the Annunciation' by Salvador Dali.
#Annunciation #angel #angels #art #SalvadorDali
#Annunciation #angel #angels #art #SalvadorDali
So 'Smash' is now finally on Broadway, and good luck to it. Great songs, and this is my favourite.
youtube.com/watch?v=Zmz9...
youtube.com/watch?v=Zmz9...
"They Just Keep Moving the Line" | SMASH The Musical
YouTube video by Smash On Broadway
youtube.com
March 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
So 'Smash' is now finally on Broadway, and good luck to it. Great songs, and this is my favourite.
youtube.com/watch?v=Zmz9...
youtube.com/watch?v=Zmz9...
Happy 98th birthday to John Kander!!
Here he is at the piano with Liza Minnelli and Fred Ebb, rehearsing their 1965 show 'Flora, The Red Menace'.
Here he is at the piano with Liza Minnelli and Fred Ebb, rehearsing their 1965 show 'Flora, The Red Menace'.
March 18, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Happy 98th birthday to John Kander!!
Here he is at the piano with Liza Minnelli and Fred Ebb, rehearsing their 1965 show 'Flora, The Red Menace'.
Here he is at the piano with Liza Minnelli and Fred Ebb, rehearsing their 1965 show 'Flora, The Red Menace'.
Shrrieek!!! That's Sunday evening sorted then! 😁 I don't remember having ever seen the Wogan episode before - apparently it features Sondheim himself with cast members of the 1987 London production - Julia McKenzie, Diana Rigg, Dolores Grey, Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson. I CANNOT WAIT.
#Sondheim
#Sondheim
March 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Shrrieek!!! That's Sunday evening sorted then! 😁 I don't remember having ever seen the Wogan episode before - apparently it features Sondheim himself with cast members of the 1987 London production - Julia McKenzie, Diana Rigg, Dolores Grey, Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson. I CANNOT WAIT.
#Sondheim
#Sondheim
"The subletters of W H Auden's and Kallman's apartment on St Mark's Place had been utterly
astonished when they opened the cupboard above the bed and found in it only a jar of Vaseline and a pair of castanets."
from 'Come Back In September' by Darryl Pinckney
#Poetry
astonished when they opened the cupboard above the bed and found in it only a jar of Vaseline and a pair of castanets."
from 'Come Back In September' by Darryl Pinckney
#Poetry
March 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"The subletters of W H Auden's and Kallman's apartment on St Mark's Place had been utterly
astonished when they opened the cupboard above the bed and found in it only a jar of Vaseline and a pair of castanets."
from 'Come Back In September' by Darryl Pinckney
#Poetry
astonished when they opened the cupboard above the bed and found in it only a jar of Vaseline and a pair of castanets."
from 'Come Back In September' by Darryl Pinckney
#Poetry
Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford upon Avon.
March 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford upon Avon.
Not normally one for photographing my coffee, but I think these cups and saucers are very cute.
March 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Not normally one for photographing my coffee, but I think these cups and saucers are very cute.
Swooning over this costume worn by Vivien Leigh, when she played Viola in 'Twelfth Night' at the RSC in 1955. 😍
March 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Swooning over this costume worn by Vivien Leigh, when she played Viola in 'Twelfth Night' at the RSC in 1955. 😍
Bible Quiz! Which of these countries does not feature in the Bible?
a) Greece
b) Italy
c) France
d) Spain
a) Greece
b) Italy
c) France
d) Spain
March 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Bible Quiz! Which of these countries does not feature in the Bible?
a) Greece
b) Italy
c) France
d) Spain
a) Greece
b) Italy
c) France
d) Spain