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Fanciful French musical a triumph for cods

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From: Gloucestershire Echo, The
Date: 20080206
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A Backdrop of the French Revolution with a menacing guillotine and bawdy street hustlers is the unlikely setting of a love story.

But The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy is a romantic adventure starring a lovestruck French actress, Marguerite (played by Kate Aston), and her English aristocratic lover, Sir Percy (played by Ben Perkins), who are thrown into tumult by a rampaging French army.

This production of the Broadway musical by Cheltenham Operatic and Dramatic Society had everything you could want from a show - dancing girls at La Comedie Francaise, an egotistical French ...

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