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...musical revolves around the escapades of Charley Wykeham and Jack Chesney, two Oxford University students. As the musical opens, Charley and Jack have invited their respective girlfriends, Amy and Kitty, to lunch in their rooms with the intention of proposing to them. Their chaperone is supposed to be Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez, Charley's Brazilian aunt, who is due on the next train. Unfortunately, Donna Lucia sends a note saying that she won't be coming after all, and Jack decides that Charley should impersonate his aunt. Donna Lucia, however, happens to be a millionaire, and Charley soon finds himself...
Chris Carfizzi and Darren Dunstan, in the two older male roles of Spettigue and Sir Francis, respectively, made hilarious counterparts to each other, the fiery Scottish Spettigue howling lustily as he dashed after Lucia, while the dignified Sir Francis simply offered "her" a white carnation from his buttonhole. Ultimately, every member of the cast was perfect for his or her part, from the boisterous group of Charley and Jack's Oxford chums to the "real" Donna Lucia (Margaret McCormick), who made an entrance about halfway through the performance but didn't reveal her true identity until...
Other scenes gave some indication that the production was updated for a '90s audience; this may well be the case, as Boston Conservatory faculty member Michelle Chass redid the choreography for this performance. Case in point: a random "flashback" to Donna Lucia's life in the steamy tropical forests of Brazil introduced an unmistakable erotic element into the performance a bit out of keeping with the British conservatism played up by the rest of the musical. Maybe it wouldn't have flown 50 years ago, but it did enliven the stage without being overly out of place...
...finally, this is soprano Dominique Labelle's debut in the lead role of Violetta Valery and her second performance with the Boston Lyric (she debuted with last season's Lucia de Lamermoor...
...Each year the Nobel Prize winners stay at a hotel in Stockholm overnight," Lidskog said. "In the early morning, they are woken up by that year's win- ner of the Swedish Santa Lucia Pageant...