FAIRY TALE ENDING by Kieren MacMillan and Jeremy Hutton. Palmerston Library. July 8 at 5:30 pm, July 9 at 11 am, July 10 at 3:45 pm. See listing. Rating: NNNNN
Young or old, you won’t go wrong with this musical, in which various fairy-tale characters (a wolf, a troll and Goldilocks) take part in a police lineup and are interrogated for their crimes.
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Writers Kieren MacMillan and Jeremy Hutton, with a nod to Sondheim’s Into The Woods, give a contemporary and entertaining update to traditional fairy tales and children’s rhymes they’ve even suggested what it means to be a grown-up, which doesn’t always mean a happily-ever-after ending. The music is catchy, the lyrics clever and the performances, under Hutton’s direction, strong.