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Overall, however, Les Miserables is still an emotion-packed musical with a lot of talent and an astounding set. The revolving stage platform is quite possible the show's strongest point--it gives a depth and ease to scene changes rarely seen in theater. Like the revolving stage itself, "Les Mis" gave a new dimension to the genre of musical theater, and it continues to do so today. This production may not be perfect, but it still gives a fine show to its audiences. For all of its fans, fanatics, lovers and critics alike, the 10th Anniversary Tour...
...safe candidate to diversify the board, but RCA ended up with a woman who had the strongest technical background of the group," Selby smiles. "I could understand all their mumbo-jumbo on microprocessors...
...electorate voted Labour into overwhelming power precisely because they knew it would be change without revolution. It was a happy vote, not a bitter one. The overwhelming sentiment was "Time for a change." This decisively outbalanced the "feel-good factor" produced by the fact that the country has the strongest economy in Europe--its best in 50 years--and most people have never earned so much...
...likeability to this too-often-stodgy character, also opens the way to much humorous stage inter-action with his mercurial messenger, Puck. This depth of characterization, typical of this production's ability to infuse even the minor scenes of the play with meaning and humor, is one of the strongest points of the show...
Perhaps the single strongest element of the show, however, lies in the third important group of characters. These are the "mechanicals," the clowns of A Midsummer Night's Dream. A band of lower-class artisans, their only goal is to rehearse the play they hope to stage before Duke Theseus in honor of his wedding. The play's most richly, broadly comic scenes fall to these characters, and the actors in this production pull off them off with sheer genius. As individual comic actors, the players are consistently hilarious; as a group, they forge a bond of buffoonery that transcends...