Logical Family: An Evening with Armistead Maupin and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jamie Parker, Sarah Tynan, Russell Tovey & David Parry

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Tuesday, December 19, 2017 Barbican Hall, London

Reviewed by Peter Reed

Like everyone else I knew then, I devoured Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City books when they started appearing in the 1970s, an irresistible mix of Dickens-like vividness, a pragmatic approach to gay liberation and a very American can-do positivism. I’d wondered if Mary Ann Singleton, Anna Madrigal, Mouse and 28 Barbary Lane would still be flourishing in the brisker milieu of computers, Facebook...