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Too Strange to Pass for a Musical

How can we best describe "Passing Strange"? Try thinking of your favorite musical. Now imagine what it would be like if its composer insisted on not just sitting center-stage, but narrating the plot and even telling you why it's a good show. Doesn't that sound condescending?

That, essentially, is "Passing Strange," the stylistically savvy but structurally unsound new musical that has limped...

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