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This little wooden boy is all heart - and some nose

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20080106
Author:Classical Anna Picard

It's a long but happy wait for the major third that says a lesson has been learnt

The Adventures of Pinocchio Grand Theatre Leeds Emilia di Liverpool St George's Hall Liverpool

Of the many cute touches in Alasdair Middleton and Jonathan Dove's cutesome adaptation of Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, the cutest by far is the final chord. After burning, hanging, flying, lying, being turned into a donkey, swallowed by a whale, and belatedly learning the value of hard labour, Pinocchio, whose selfishness is all too human, has at last realised his oft- repeated ambition "to be good". ...

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