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Angers embodies everything the world loves about France. Water gushes from stone cherubs on its Beaux Arts fountains as mothers sit in the sun, watching their small children spin gleefully on a painted carousel, to the sounds of My Boy Lollipop. Picture-perfect vineyards announce the town's current prosperity; a Gothic cathedral and 13th century chateau commemorate its noble past. Just 265 km from Paris, the gateway to the bucolic Loire Valley, Angers offers four museums, a feast of theater and music, and canoeing on nearby Maine Lake. "This isn't the overcrowded Paris suburbs," sniffs Angers' deputy prosecutor...
Ongoing through April 16. “Carousel.” Various show times and ticket prices. Some discounts available. Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St. Tickets available at Harvard Box Office...
...kicks off “The Sunlandic Twins” with a hit of nostalgia. A sense of reverent déjà-vu comes through in the lyrical reflections on unfading memories and idyllic first love; sepia tints the obscurely winsome song title, the tipsy-carousel melodies, the stagily-intimate vocals, and the constant stream of giddy hooks...
...perhaps, above all, praise is due to Brittany Bara’s Mrs. Mullin, the lovelorn and salt-of-the-earth owner of the title namesake carousel. Not only does Bara have tremendous stage presence, her emotional intensity gave her character a realism and charisma head and shoulders above everyone else?...
Finally, the all-important carousel, housed in a heavily wired gazebo of sorts, disappointingly resembled a Lazy Susan more than anything else. Though it is understandable that budget and time limitations may affect the Mainstage productions, it should be expected that these strictures should be transcended through a unifying aesthetic vision (both by the designer and the director...