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'Camelias' blends fact, fiction
From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Date: 20040109
Author:Ivan M. Lincoln Deseret Morning News
ALEXANDRE DUMAS AND THE LADY OF THE CAMELIAS, Pioneer Theatre Company, Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre, through Jan. 24 (581- 6961). Running time: two and one-half hours (one intermission).
It's 1895 in an ornate Parisian theater, where a small company is rehearsing Verdi's opera, "La Traviata." An aging gentleman (he looks for all the world like a dead ringer for Mark Twain) wanders in.
When the tenor and the soprano (Julian Rebolledo and Victoria Mallory) rehearse one of the opera's arias -- and he touches her -- the old gent yells, "Don't touch her like that!"
Suddenly, the opera house ...
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