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[franklinshepard]

So I saw Juno at Encores last night. Basically, my short review is that I loved it, and I urge anyone in the New York area who is interested in musical theatre at all to run to catch this before it closes on Sunday night. But for a more detailed, spoilerful review, click the lj-cut!

So I loved it, with some reservations. But the best parts were

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[gruyere]

Is the counterpoint reprise of "I Wish It So" and "One Kind Word" in there, or was that devised for the Vineyard version?

Looking forward to this--I see it tomorrow afternoon.

[franklinshepard]

As always, terribly late to respond to comments, but you've seen that those reprises are in there, although they aren't sung in counterpoint exactly. And Blitzstein's demo (do you have that?) show that they were in the original production as well.

[proscenium_arch]

Interesting take...you and I really need to get together and discourse these things. You support your viewpoints very well.

We're seeing it again tomorrow night (we saw the dress of Wednesday). South Pacific's this Wednesday...