Minneapolis: don't speak!(FRONT & CENTER)(Children's Theatre Company)(Reeling)

Little Fellow is managing one narrow escape after another--getting chased in and out of windows and trash cans, dodging falling houses, evading Big Man and slipping on banana peels, all with a bevy of Keystone Kops in hot pursuit. And, unlike his silent film predecessors, actor Dean Holt has to hit his marks night after night.

"You see these things in one take in film, but the idea that you're watching this rather remarkable performer do this through an entire piece, nonstop--it's pretty dang virtuosic," says Children's Theatre Company artistic director Peter Brosius, who ...

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