Confucius

Confucius Chinese Restaurant

http://www.confuciusrestaurant.co.uk

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Musical comedy had been running on a formula most effectively set forth in the Alex Aarons-Vinton Freedley Gershwin piece for Fred and Adele Astaire, Lady, Be Good (1924): start with hot performers, add a hot score and hot choreography, and glue it all together with as much humor as possible.

to Walk With Music, as Kitty Carlisle and Betty Lawford replaced Simone Simon and Mary Brian, as the girls became sisters (who left not a nightclub but a farm), and as the out-of-town song hit, "Darn Clever, These Chinee," was dropped because it turned on the "Confucius say" vogue that had suddenly become irritating, the show reached Broadway.

Or: the gaggy book ran from the pathetic to the workmanlike: The book even ran—just once in the evening—to the stunning, though this is in bad taste: "A blizzard of quips," Richard Lockridge of the New York Sun called Walk With Music, adding, "Somebody will have to do something about the musical comedy book someday"—really, I think, meaning Somebody will have to write shows with genuine content and integrity of elements rather than these assemblies of spare parts.

Here we find Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart screwing up almost as badly as Walk With Music's authors, in a piece designed for Vera Zorina, the dancer who had proved a delight in the 1937 London production of Rodgers and Hart's On Your Toes (1936) and then on Broadway in their I Married an Angel (1938).

These could not help a show that lacked the topline score, the irresistible performances, the opulent novelty background that filled in for the Broadway musical's typical insubstantiality.

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Some evenings you will be entertained by live jazz music – not the first thing you would expect in a Chinese restaurant but enjoyable nonetheless.24 High Street, Wimbledon Village, SW19 5DX, London020 8947 3533If one Chinese restaurant hasn’t sated your tastebuds, then head to Confucious for a simple, unfussy but very, very satisfying meal.

233A Wimbledon Park Rd, London, SW18 5RJ020 8874 1446Wimbledon’s large South African community means there are a number of supermarkets and specialist stores selling food and ‘reminds me of home’ items from South Africa.

Famous for their biltong and boerewors this is the place to come for all of your favourite canned goods, drinks, wines and spices from South Africa.Barry House, 20-22 Worple Road, Wimbledon, SW19 4DH0208 971 9177With all of the tennis paraphernalia hanging on the walls of this pub and hotel, you’d think there was some sort of important sporting ground nearby.

We love the skylight suite, which has a skylight (obviously) over the bed, allowing you to sleep under the stars (if you can see them through the London smog) in comfort.24 High Street, Wimbledon Village, London SW19 5EA020 8946 6565This quintessential British pub has been serving food and drink since 1835 so they have really worked out how to do it.

There is a wide range of live performance including comedy, drama, musicals and cabaret – purchase your tickets online or at the box office.The Broadway, Wimbledon, London, SW19 1QG0844 871 7646Here’s something for the kids – Polka Theatre is a wonderful, charity run theatre that hosts performances for children and offers a selection of fun activities and classes for budding actors.