Daddy Long Legs
From: Wednesday, 31st October 2012
To: Saturday, 8 December 2012
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Synopsis
Set in the early 1900s in New England, Daddy Long Legs is the vivid account of a young orphan as she blossoms into a beautiful, intelligent and vivacious woman. An anonymous benefactor gives Jerusha Abbott an opportunity to attend college, requiring that she write to him monthly, even though he will not respond. Her letters to him paint a moving portrait of her former life in the orphanage, and the development of her mind and spirit.
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Michael Coveney - 8 November 2012
Megan McGinnis & Robert Adelman Hancock in Daddy Long Legs
Although Daddy Long Legs is a perfectly decent, fairly charming old-fashioned musical two-hander, it's hard to see how such a slight, summery piece of work, adapted from one of America's favourite children's novels, can prosper in a cruel, harsh winter of bigger, brasher West End shows.
That flaw might constitute its strength, of course, but although John Caird's sensitive book and Paul Gordon's deft music and lyrics accurately reflect the period feel and decorum of Jean Webster's 1912 epistolary novel, the show never really flies – and certainly not like one of the Roland Petit dance sequences in the Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron 1955 film adaptation with a score by Johnny Mercer.
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Adele Winston - 14 November 2012:
The new venue is bright & welcoming & so is the show, which just has buckets of charm....
Cast
Robert Adelman Hancock (Jervic Pendleton)
Megan McGinnis (Jerusha Abbott)
Creative
Paul Gordon (Music)
Paul Gordon (Lyrics)
John Caird (based on original novel by Jean Webster) (Book)
Michael Jackowitz (Producer)
Rubicon Theatre Company (Company)
John Caird (Director)
David Farley (Design)
Paul Toben (Lighting)
David Farley (Costume)
Andrew Bruce (Sound)
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