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"Two Cities" musical is not the best, nor the worst

'A Tale of Two Cities" is a middling Masterpiece Musical, a paint-by-numbers throwback to the late - and, in this corner, unlamented - heyday of novelized epics on turntables. It has lots of nice period costumes and good actors singing their lungs inside out on material that all sounds the same.

The adaptation, music and lyrics, on Broadway after a success in Sarasota, Fla., are all by Jill...

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