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MAKING MUSIC OUT OF EYRE.(Entertainment)(Cottage Theatre will stage an original musical adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's novel)

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From: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Date: 20031130
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Byline: Fred Crafts The Register-Guard

Sometimes, Kristina Harris can't see the forest for the trees. Take her ``Jane Eyre, the Musical Classic'' for example.

"I'd always been a big fan of (Charlotte Bronte's novel) `Jane Eyre,' and I'd always been involved in musical theater, and I was a writer, but I had never combined all of those things," Harris says.

Then - eureka! - inspiration hit.

``One day, in kind of a creative frenzy, I picked up the novel and said, `This needs to be a musical,' and I sat down and wrote the script in a single day,'' she says.

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