Young @ Art: Alice's Adventures in Wondorado (As)

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Some theater shows don't have to make sense -- they just have to make nonsense -- like the Eldorado Children's Theatre musical production of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This is the Alice who went down the rabbit hole and through the looking glass. She was originally a literary creation of 19th-century British author Lewis Carroll (aka Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), who penned the stories Alice in Wonderland (1865) and Though the Looking Glass (1872).

In this case, Alice is the star of a musical, because Lisa Lincoln, artistic director of the six-year-old theater troupe, decided to produce James Devita and Bill Francoeur's 1997 song-and- dance version of the story, originally titled Wonderland! The Musical Misadventures of a Girl Named Alice. "Once we decided to do the show, I looked at eight different versions of the story," Lincoln explained during a break in recent rehearsal. "This was the best one. It has a great creative script and an improvisatory feel to it."

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Young @ Art: Alice's Adventures in Wondorado (As)

It also features numbers that pay homage to American popular music. For instance, Humpty Dumpty wants to get off his wall and be a country-western star. So, backed by his band, ...

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