Stir in Anna Louizos' elaborate sets and you've got a musical that's resplendent whenever the members of the cast are singing and repellent whenever they stop singing and start talking.

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And the actors were going to be talking the dialogue in the envelope that I was singing the words and the dialogue in.

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"Talking during performances, singing aloud - except where sanctioned - unwrapping candy and cough drops" were equally likely to cause annoyance, he said.

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