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Best Musical

Pinocchio Commedia

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Published on October 17, 2002

Unheralded local director Christopher Clegg and out-of-town author Johnny Simons brought zest to Theatre for Young America's superb and evocative Pinocchio Commedia. The songs weren't Gershwin, but the show was tremendous. Its cast -- including Heidi Gutknecht, Jake Walker and a fire-eating Matt Rapport -- effortlessly transformed itself into a traveling Italian theater troupe staging its giddy show-within-a-show, and Valerie Mackey's set and William (Matt) Hill's masks called up an entertainment-starved Tuscan village.