Article: REVIEW Skylight's 'Boheme' special All aspects work for production set in '30s, led by singing

A once-in-a-lifetime "La Boheme" opened The Skylight's season Friday evening.

Singing, acting, pacing and intimate scale make this production, directed by William Theisen and conducted by Pasquale Laurino, special. For once, it was possible to believe that Rodolfo and Mimi could fall in love in moments. For once, Rodolfo and his three comrades-in-arts lived as distinct personalities, as opposed to slight variations on a stereotype. For once, the humor of the Cafe Momus scene, dominated by Danielle Hermon Wood's formidable Musetta, tumbled out in the bawdy mood and farcical pace that Puccini surely had in mind. And for once, it was possible to believe that these were impetuous young people, ...

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