"How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"

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THEATER REVIEW
A tale of two Christmases

Children, adults get a kick out of Old Globe staple

By Anne Marie Welsh
THEATER CRITIC

Watching the kids at Saturday's matinee of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" was enough to make any theater lover's heart grow three sizes too. That expansion of sympathy is what happens to the green meanie onstage, of course, in the musicalized Dr. Seuss tale that has become a staple of the Old Globe season.

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