![]() ![]() It enhances both the story and the score. ![]() ![]() Making “Fella” an intimate musical gives it clarity and appeal. Who else should know? Simplicity is this edition’s hallmark-in the suggestive but understated sets with panoramic backdrops by John Lee Beatty, the deftly handled humor of Gerald Gutierrez’s staging, Liza Gennaro’s uncomplicated (but not simplistic) choreography, and the unobtrusiveness of Jess Goldstein’s costumes and Craig Miller’s lights. Judging from this production (which comes to us from Connecticut’s worthy Goodspeed Opera House) and, judging from some program notes by Jo Sullivan, Loesser’s widow and the play’s first Rosabella, Loesser had a hunch small would be beautiful. ![]()
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