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| | Stage Review: Musical Eden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | As staged by PMT and directed by Gargaro for just this weekend, "Children of Eden" proves a very accessible, brightly colored, musically punchy version of the stories of Adam and Eve and Noah and family, focusing on their difficult relations with their father, God. |
 | | Much of the Byham stage is taken up with the nine-person orchestra, led by Canille Villapando Rolla, and a large "storyteller chorus," but there's room for dancing down front and on platforms at the rear, while colorful fabrics provide a sense of the water, land and sky of God's creation. |
 | | The heart of that creation, though, is the animals -- also children of Eden -- portrayed by youngsters in inventive costumes, including two elephants who come down the aisles toward the ark. It's not exactly "The Lion King," but it is a pageant with a similar mix of celebration and invention. |
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