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Somewhere in the first act, you get nervous, perhaps just about the degree of difficulty.

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By the time the script has introduced a plot involving check fraud, it seems nearly unstable.

The average life expectancy for someone with her disease is 16 Its just an average, though!

she chirps to a classmate, not quite believing herself.

Then, the musical felt like a glimmer of sunlight breaking through the winter of Omicron.

Cooley plays Kimberlys so-nerdy-he-speaks-Elvish love interest, Seth, a crucial grounding figure amid the looniness of the plot.

Hes as recessive as Milligan is aggressive.

Tesori can write crowd-pleasing earworms (the teens chanting Our disease!

Those twist in the wind and, just when they catch a tune, wander elsewhere.

Like Sondheim, Tesori and Lindsay-Abaire can craft the sound of people thinking.

The gears ofKimberly Akimboturn in time with that thought process.

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