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Mostly musicals on tap this week

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From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Date: 20040704
Author:Ivan M. Lincoln Deseret Morning News

Except for one British comedy and a puppet show, this shapes up to be a mostly musical week.

-- "ENCHANTED APRIL," adapted by playwright Matthew Barber from Elizabeth von Arnim's 1921 novel (and filmed twice, in 1935 and 1992), is the third of this summer's four Old Lyric Repertory Company productions in Logan.

The romantic comedy revolves around four unacquainted Englishwomen who share the cost of renting an Italian castle. Two of the central characters are frustrated housewives looking to escape a dreary Hampstead winter. Their idyllic plans are compromised by two other women who join them ...

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