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‘Lil’ Flora’ is a full-on musical with all the bells and whistles, and well-pitched to Taiwan’s media-savvy children

By Ian Bartholomew  /  STAFF REPORTER

Lil’ Flora is unusual in being a bona-fide theatrical production that has ambitions beyond appealing to small children. “This production has 27 songs ... and the idea was to tell the story through the music,” Chen said. In past productions, Ifkids had usually settled for around 15 songs for a musical production. “We are pushing the musical genre,” Chen said, “regardless of whether we are talking about children’s or grown-up theater.”

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