Brian Henderson will be remembered for the velvet voice and easy charm with which he delivered Channel Nine’s nightly news and hosted the music show Bandstand – a charm that defined him equally off screen as on. But there was also a quiet determination in his make-up. When Bandstand’s ratings…
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That musical theatre had become a basket-case late last century was hardly a surprise. Not only had it overdosed on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sugar-coated soporifics, it kept banging its head against the twin brick walls of rock-based music and jukebox inanities. No, the surprise was that it ever regained its…