LOCAL BOY MAKES GOOD It's easy to see what drew Cameron Mackintosh to revive Lionel Bart's hit musical 18 years ago: Dickens is a lot like Victor Hugo. Like Mackintosh' smash Les Miserables, the 1960 musical replays an entire novel at warp speed, with fully realized opportunities to depict a swarming cityscape and gloomy Victorian [...]
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:42PM on December 23, 2012