Die, Snow White! Die, Damn You!

This version of "Snow White" would give children insomnia and cause them to spend years in therapy. This creation of esteemed writer and producer Yuri Rasovsky and an outstanding theater ensemble, including Sandra Oh ("Grey's Anatomy"), Simon Helberg ("Big Bang Theory"), and a half-dozen other names from television and audiobook productions, is an amusing, sometimes hilarious, retelling of the old story. As odd as it sounds, much of it is very close to the German original. The cast is amazing. Snow is a spoiled Valley Girl; her father (literally) a blathering idiot. Both are oblivious to the stepmother's seething hatred. The production is punctuated by perky music and sound effects. Rasovsky adds characters from a dozen other well-known Grimm fairy tales to make a mega-fairy tale. M.S. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine