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'Enchanted April' Drifts From Dreary to Charming

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20060126
Author:Michael J. Toscano

"Enchanted April," a romantic comedy presented by the Vienna Theatre Company that concludes its run this weekend, is awash in sentimentality, retaining much of the distinctly old-fashioned charm of Elizabeth von Arnim's best-selling 1922 novel in Matthew Barber's stage adaptation.

But despite the "ladies' matinee" pedigree of the story of four Englishwomen who abandon gray London for a month for the sunshine of an Italian castle and simultaneously cast off the darkness that has encroached upon their lives, director Suzanne Maloney has crafted a light-as-air confection that both sexes can ...

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