The Notebook **
By: Pailanne Simmons March 22, 2024: If there were an award for putting the most clichés into one work, surely the new musical, The Notebook, would win it. In about two hours and twenty minutes, we see all the familiar themes: rich girl meets poor boy, parents don't approve, poor boy goes off to war, mother steals poor boy's letters, girl finds new man, poor boy comes home from war and the lovers are reunit…