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Two literary characters and a historical figure walk into a bar...

One of the most common, and legitimate, criticisms of the music of Stephen Sondheim by performers and critics alike is that he's not tuneful enough. "Hummable," I think is the word most often used by these critics.

, and that's still pretty much all I can say. It was one of those shows I really wish I'd had someone with me at: I just really wanted to talk to somebody after the show, but my plus-one had to cancel on me, quite literally at the last minute, so there I was, blown away by a performance and with nobody to talk to about it. So I needed some time to process the show. And let me repeat: wow.

We haven't gotten around to telling you about the Philadelphia New Play Festival yet (that post is forthcoming), but on Friday, I had the opportunity to see one of the featured plays (most of them open before the festival officially begins), The Arden's .

Roald Dahl is, hands-down, one of my favorite writers. And not just because he wrote . Thirteen years later, I found I didn't remember much of it, so sitting through the Arden's staged adaptation was like a delightful refresher course.

. It's a show that we know quite well and we felt that we were in a good position to be tough critics if that's what was required of us.