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From: Philadelphia Weekly | Date: May 7, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Easy Being Green

Like a ship cutting through the unmapped waters of New Wave musical theater, the Prince Music Theater explores strange and exotic lands never before seen in the American musical. Undeterred by the fact that the worlds they visit are often uninhabitable or inhospitable, they move onward, as if the voyage itself were every bit as significant as the destination.

And that's a good thing, because if Philadelphia's most intrepid regional theater ever gave up its search for new musical forms and subjects, we wouldn't have Green Violin, a bold new musical from lyricist/librettist ...

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