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said, "this is not a script that moves in a perfectly chronological fashion, but thanks to Cantor's very clear direction, the time and place are never lost. Lighting designer Jeff
Croiter rises to the unique challenge of lighting a blackout with an audience-enveloping design that is truly beautiful."
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The next morning, Harold's alarm clock breaks and he sees it as a sign: "this is what it looks like when time stops!". He books a train ticket to South Dakota to find Miriam. As he waits for his train, The
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criticise the show's "sense of stasis" and "tendency to repeat itself, both thematically and musically", as well as its length: "at 80 or 90 minutes, instead of two and a half hours, 'Fly by Night' would have been just the ticket for audiences with a taste for sentimental quirkiness set to music".
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Narrator once again disrupts the chronology, taking the audience back in time to show Miriam on the night before she and Daphne leave for New York. Nervous about moving, Miriam finds comfort looking up at the stars, which she associates with her dead father ("Stars I Trust"). On Miriam's first
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who dreams of moving to New York and becoming an actress. Her mother agrees to let her pursue her dreams providing she takes her sister Miriam with her, and although Miriam is initially reluctant to leave her home, Daphne manages to convince her, and the two set off for New York ("Daphne Dreams").
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wrote, "The score makes extensive use of time-freezing vamps and riffs that flirt with early rock 'n' roll, as well as recurrent motifs that are guaranteed to take up longtime residence in your ear" and described the song 'Eternity' as "a perfectly self-contained tour de force". He did, however,
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