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<\/p>\nThe story is about Henry Fraser, a 17-year-old rugby player who becomes paralyzed after a diving accident and must rebuild his life. Not fiction, as it is his own story. Ed Larkin stars as Man Henry Fraser and does so again, following his breakthrough London West End production. Larkin is the first wheelchair user ever to star in a West End musical. That's not a detail on the sidelines; that's at the heart of what makes this production special. In addition to Larkin, Djavan van de Fliert and Joy Wielkens are on the floor, along with Edwin Jonker, Tessa Jonge Poerink, Lucia Zemene, Sarah-Jane Wijdenbosch and Jurriaan Bruinier.<\/p>\n
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Carr\u00e9's arena setting reinforces what the musical is trying to do. You're not sitting at a distance watching someone fight for their life, you're in the middle of it. A live band plays in the same space, giving the whole thing even more of a shared moment feel. The music is by Nick Butcher, who also co-wrote the lyrics with Tom Ling. The book is by Joe White. Together they build a performance that has already been praised in London for its immediacy and the power with which the story is told.<\/p>\n
Ed Larkin is the first wheelchair user ever to star in a West End musical. That's not a detail on the sidelines; that's at the heart of what makes this production special.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Carr\u00e9 has stood for more than a century. The theater has housed everything from circus to opera. But opening the arena to a musical of this stature, that's another choice. And an understandable one. The Little Big Things is exactly the kind of performance that calls for such a space: intimate, uncomfortably close, and precisely because of that, hard to forget.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"