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.

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 ...

"Coram Boy" recently opened on Broadway after a successful ... LAURA: And those are our primary roles. And then my character gets shipped off to boarding school and doesn't come back in Act ...

Virtually devoid of even a glimmer of humor (shy of a few mugging adults set loose as little kids), let alone any distancing irony, “Coram Boy” seeks its satisfactions in the unapologetically feverish ...

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

Characters sprang into my head ... Helen Edmundson, in her adaptation of Coram Boy, brilliantly weaves all these aspects into the play, giving us music, friendship, laughter and tragedy – everything ...