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Charles Kirsch, 14-year-old critic, blogger, actor, director and man-about-town in front of the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in New York. Photo by Kym Fajardo.
CHARLES KIRSCH: This 14-year-old superfan knows more about Broadway than most grownups STORY BY
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nd to think that he didn’t even want to go. Remy and Adam Kirsch told their seven-year-old son Charles that they were taking him to the 2014 Broadway revival of On the Town. He agreed to accompany them only after they made a promise: “Candy at intermission,” he recalls.” The merch man lost a sale, for, “Once I was there, I forgot about that entirely,” he says. “I loved the songs as well as, of course, the big opening dance number.” Up till then, Charles had been interested in cars and United States
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