Romantic ‘Puss in Boots’ Lets Puppet Bunnies Live: John Simon
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That desperate fairytale feline who uses trickery and persuasion to get rich and marry off his poor master to a princess, is the hero of “El gato con botas,” now at New York’s New Victory Theater.
Composed by Xavier Montsalvatge, an undeservedly little-known Catalan, it’s been given an exquisite production involving the combined efforts of Gotham Chamber Opera, Tectonic Theater Project and Britain’s Blind Summit Theatre.