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In consequence, our civic machinery was, and still can be, lumberingly ineffective.

Instead, the lumbering William “Refrigerator” Perry got the handoff and scored.

Through literary references and tidbits of history alongside descriptions of dazzling biology, Rundell conjures a parade of swimming, crawling, flapping, lumbering life.

But the musical’s politics are as unsubtle as any other aspect of this lumbering show.

Sometimes lumbering though always well-intentioned, it’s an ode to tales of lovable, scrappy galoots who keep a glint in their pummeled eyes.