Portland Center Stage
January 13, 2006; closes February 5, 2006
Nearly cried — not over lost innocence, but missed opportunity. Overthought rethink; much misdirected attention, as if production didn’t trust or was bored with its own material. How do all these trappings serve a play utterly simple in essence? They don’t. Exquisite score fortunately intact. Ron Daum is musical theater trouper.
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More than a trooper, Ron Daum shows what this production might have been -- so great!
this “chestnut” disturbed me (in a bad way). the rape song was truly tasteless (they say "it's about abduction"; it's still a song (with reprises) about “rape” (surely “abduction” rhymes with something?!?!)) and the Native American stereotype was offensive, unnecessary. couldn't another small-cast, not-outdated musical about love have been produced??
That should be "trouper", as in:
trouper |ˈtroōpər| noun an actor or other entertainer, typically one with long experience. • a reliable and uncomplaining person : a real trouper, Ma concealed her troubles.
A trooper is one of those guys with the Smokey the Bear hats
I concede to the Vocabulary Trooper. Indeed, it should be trouper, and I have corrected the spelling error. Thanks for catching that.
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