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Admittedly, Oliver! is one of those musicals that instantly takes me back to my formative years, as I fondly remember watching the 1968 film version at school and at home. It would have taken a total disaster for the Spotlight Theatre to leave me disappointed. Luckily for everyone, though, director Sara Tubbs’s production is a sensory delight: it looked and sounded terrific.

This is the story of two neighboring Hartford suburbs and how they came, throughout the 20th century, to represent an example of America’s persistent racial segregation.