Orwell may yet survive Sir Elt's high-kicking pig chorus | Marina Hyde

Elton John's West End musical of Animal Farm could be the biggest thing for the dystopian satire since the CIAThere are headlines that force the reader to check the date. And then there is this week's "Elton John working on Animal Farm musical", which would seem to elevate the spaghetti harvest to the status of a Walter Cronkite report. Yet rigorous factchecking confirms we are not in early April. Along with Lee Hall, with whom he collaborated so successfully on the Billy Elliot musical, Sir Elt...

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