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LoftOpera’s Le Comte Ory: A Modern Technicolor Family Circus in Bushwick

We had been promised guys posing as nuns, astroturf, 2,500 pieces of fake fruit, a moving stage, and circus performers

By April Greene

June 10, 2016 · 3 min read

Arts & Culture

LoftOpera’s Le Comte Ory: A Modern Technicolor Family Circus in Bushwick

We had been promised guys posing as nuns, astroturf, 2,500 pieces of fake fruit, a moving stage, and circus performers

April Greene June 10, 2016Jun 10, 2016 · 3 min read

LoftOpera Le Comte Ory 2016 Robert Altman

We had been promised guys posing as nuns, astroturf, 2,500 pieces of fake fruit, a moving stage, and circus performers. Did LoftOpera‘s production of Le Comte Ory let us down on any front? Be assured it did not.

At last night’s 8:00 pm show, at the cavernous, rag-tag home of circus school The Muse , the scene was abuzz: joyful staff greeted attendees with programs as if they were…

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