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A Dickens of a show. (stage presentation of Charles Dickens' novel, 'The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby')

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From: Sarasota Magazine
Date: 19961101
Author:Kipling, Kay

The Asolo takes on the lavish, challenging "Nicholas Nickleby."

That old hollywood promotional line boasting about using "a cast of thousands" may seem almost true when 26 actors take to the Asolo's stage to portray a host of characters in "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby," opening the theater's season Dec. 5. It takes that many actors, in a colorful multiplicity of roles, to tell the sprawling story of the Dickens novel, and it takes them seven hours - split into two different performances - to bring Nicholas from a penniless orphan suffering at the hands of a ...

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