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`SUGAR PLUM FAIRY' IS A GOOEY MIX OF TRAUMA AND HUMOR.(Life and Arts)(Review)

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From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
Date: 20021204
Author:Adcock, Joe

Byline: JOE ADCOCK P-I theater critic

As Dante Alighieri pointed out 700 years ago, hell is divided up into lots of specialized zones. One such locus of torment came along way after Dante's time. That would be the Beverly Rosann School of Dance in suburban Los Angeles. There, some 40 years ago, Sandra Loh was filled with delusions and then crushed utterly.

Sounds brutal, huh? Real Sylvia Plath or Virginia Woolf stuff - angst endured until it becomes unbearable. Unlike Plath or Woolf, however, Loh has not committed suicide. She whips anguish into a froth, which she ...

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