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Originally posted by Paisley
I just got off of the phone w/ someone who saw Oliver and said it was wonderful. Has stardom gone to the Gaplet's head yet?
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Thanks. Fortunately, it appears that the Gaplet is the most level-headed among us.
Los Angeles Times:
- THEATER REVIEW
South Bay's 'Oliver!' marshals its forces
By Daryl H. Miller, Times Staff Writer
Enrollment is booming at Fagin's school for pint-size pickpockets. A whopping 31 boys and girls scramble about the premises as Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities stages "Oliver!" They're part of a cast of 55, accompanied by an orchestra of 17. Big, big, big - that's the hallmark of this production, which impresses through sheer force of will even if its artistry is scattershot.
Straight away, director-choreographer Jon Engstrom deploys the kids well by using their number to emphasize the conditions chronicled by Charles Dickens in his late-1830s serialized story "Oliver Twist," the basis for Lionel Bart's 1960 musical. The line seems never to end as orphans, dirt-smeared, clothes in tatters, trudge to their seats in a workhouse dining hall.
See? See? That's
my dirt-smeared, tattered orphan in the endless line that he's talkin' about. It's all up from here, baybee.
Gattigap
