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...Once On This Island, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s 1990 musical based on Rosa Guy’s 1985 novel My Love, My Love (itself inspired by The Little Mermaid), gets an exuberant, witty staging at the hands...
...The three witches, or “Wyrd Sisters”, are cool-eyed, stony-faced women in dark suits who hover, waiting for the chance to restart the clock on the next cycle....
...There is decent support from Andrew Slater’s Banquo and, especially, David Lynn’s Malcolm. The conductor, Gerry Cornelius, does not let the headlong drama flag....
...The first person he met there was Cheryl Lynn Bruce, an actor whose day job was in public relations for the museum....
...Of all the artists here, only Stacy Lynn Waddell fixes her sites on the elder Bearden, who gazed contentedly at the incandescent sea and grass near the house he built on St. Maarten....
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