John Tiffany has staged "Once" with appropriate simplicity on an unpretentious set designed by Bob Crowley.

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The lead is played by a British film star, Helen Mirren, the cast is uniformly excellent and Mr Hytner's work is first rate, as is Bob Crowley's set.

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"A lot of us have gotten tired of the commercialization" of big marathons, said Bob Crowley, 52, whose running club stages a Don't Run Boston Ultra 50K every year in Milton, Massachusetts.

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Mr. Wheeldon, whose impetus took the ballet from proposal to premiere, heads the program credits, but it is the efforts of set and costume designer Bob Crowley, fourth in order here, that steal the show.

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Not that this matters much, as "The Audience, " at London's Gielgud Theatre, is a vehicle for the country's favorite actress, Helen Mirren, and also for the designer, Bob Crowley, who wows us with his replicas of the infinitely receding columns of Buckingham Palace and a sitting-room in the queen's Scottish castle, Balmoral.

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He is intelligent enough to divert us from the darker bits with, among other things, a phenomenal, constantly moving set, designed by Bob Crowley (who also took charge of the costumes): scrims and sets fly miraculously into the rafters, only to be replaced by others whenever Poppins has a change of mood.

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CNN's Candy Crowley and Bob Franken contributed to this report.

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