Petronella Wyatt

Mingling with the mighty

The ongoing escapades of London's answer to Ally McBeal

issue 07 June 2003

There I was standing in a room with the word ‘Service’ painted on the door, in the Gellert hotel in Budapest. I was attempting to iron a pair of trousers for the first night of Phantom of the Opera, which was to be the biggest stage production Hungary had ever attempted.

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