Alexander and Melissa falling in love, from a 2005 production of 'Coram Boy' at the Olivier Theatre. There are four main characters in Coram Boy: Meshak and Otis Gardiner, Aaron and Alexander.

Its colorful characters span the class spectrum ... Commendable as it is for its ambition, “Coram Boy” is overwrought melodrama steeped in sentimentality.

Continues until September 28 United Players’ production of Coram Boy is ambitious ... and Edmundson wastes no time with frills like character development. As a result, Act 1 is boring.

but the most important girl character was Melissa (Merce Leigh), played as an entrancing grown-up by Mary Dunsby, whose affair with Alexander Ashbrook, the bullied and expelled son, produces the baby ...

“Coram Boy,” set in 18th-century England ... Handel (Quentin Mare), by the way, is a character in the second act.

Hunter praises Moore for ensuring that every character “gets fleshed out”, even in a larg ... but related disciplines. Coram Boy is a strong step in the right direction. However, these successes ...

The piece gets its name from England's first foundling hospital, established by Thomas Coram in the mid-1700 ... well with their primarily one-note characters, particularly Fleischer, who doesn ...

Parallel plots develop as the author introduces charismatic Otis Gardiner, nicknamed the "Coram man" for his role ... moves easily in and out of various characters' points of view, most notably ...