Telling Tales and making them sing
There's a beautiful line of dialogue that perfectly encapsulates the denouement of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, a tricky new musical having its world premiere at American Conservatory Theater. Toward the end of the nearly three-hour show, one character comforts another with: "Mystery solved. Mystery loved." In those two short lines we get what Tales of the City, whether in novel, miniseries or musical for…