"It was like being in a cross between Springtime for Hitler and Carry on Camel."
More words of wisdom from Mr. Ball:
"The fact is I love musicals because it's one big song after another. You can wait for hours in opera and nothing happens. In New York I was taken to an opera. Bugger me what was it? Cappuccino? No, Carpaccio?" Perhaps Capriccio, Richard Strauss's sublime last opera, its plot so distilled that virtually nothing happens?
"Yeah, that's the one. I was sitting there thinking, 'Jeez! Let's have a tune' and silently yelling 'Go on, snog her, snog her'. It was driving me insane. Interminable. Oh Christ!"
Carpaccio?
But to be fair, Kismet truly suXXor'd, Mighty Jessica Duchen, who is always right, had already said so.