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Lets just say hello to the elephant in the room, shall we?
Its also a paper place mat: a convenient surface for silly doodles.
So director Leigh Silverman casts the best silly doodlers around.
The castalsoincludes Phillipa Soo twirling a six-shooter and Chinaza Uche playing two characters, both oozing gunslinger charm.
(Liptons songs, on the other hand, are always worth it.)
But every time the tale gets a bit too shaggy, Gibson Frazier rides to the rescue.
He plays Doc Alonzo, who has no personality traits worth mentioning and basically exists to deliver information dumps.
Yet Frazier always a master portraitist of slightly dim authority is crucial to the melodrama.
All that stillness and radiance and space makes the border and its laws seem ridiculous.
Why shouldnt their mother be on this side rather than that?
Theres plenty of room.
