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 | | But all eyes were on the middle-aged men, clutching notebooks and pen-lights in the front rows: the London critics, who a week ago, ripped apart the rock band Queen and Ben Elton for their work on the musical We Will Rock You. |
 | | This was to have opened at The Strand Theatre, directed by Laurence Boswell, 43, an ex-council estate boy from Coventry, who once managed Notting Hill's Gate Theatre. |
 | | However, reviews from a Camden Town pub theatre run in December 1992 were said to have persuaded Boswell and Madonna to opt for Up For Grabs, the 29th play by Williamson, who, it is being wryly noted, wrote the screenplay for Mel Gibson's The Year of Living Dangerously. |
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