While the play-with-music has its fair share of interesting and even poignant moments, SCR's overall production feels surprisingly low-stakes, and only really becomes much more lively when it reaches its celebratory music-filled finalé. With its stories delivered via monologues, it becomes difficult to really be connected to the play's characters.
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Before a single performer appears on stage, I'm already invested in PCPA's spellbinding, and possibly foreboding, set design for The Secret Garden. My brain is.