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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20030725
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The Water Babies (Chichester Festival Theatre) Verdict: It's show time under the waves with Tom and the babies .....

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CHARLES KINGSLEY'S 1863 novel The Water Babies is one of the most enduring, and interesting, of children's stories, and Chichester has come up with a sprightly new musical version.

Writer Gary Yershon and composer Jason Carr turn the fable into a Dickensian romp in which Tom the chimney sweep (Neil McDermott) falls into a river populated by ...

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