★★★★★ I can’t allow the Ogunquit Playhouse (Ogunquit, ME) production to close (final performance July 19) without weighing in: Director/choreographer Al Blackstone’s is the most satisfying version of this beloved classic I have ever seen, and that includes the fabled Jerry Zaks Broadway revival and The Bridge’s immersive London staging. That’s because Ogunquit has attended to the two most important tasks: telling the story with urgency and heart, and casting iconic roles perfectly. In this version, you feel it truly matters that Sarah Brown’s (María Bilbao, wonderful and tight) Mission remain open, or that Chicago thug Big Jule (Lenny Venito, priceless) be sent back to the Windy City deflated. When the stakes of a story are high, the audience gets high as well, edge-of-the-seat in fact. Each of the principals finds unexpected and welcome color in familiar parts, from the roughneck street smarts of Sky Masterson (he’s usually played as a smoothie, but not in the hands of the fabulous Ephraim Sykes: he’s a scrapper!) to the wise yet daffy Adelaide of Bianca Marroquín, who makes you hear her “Lament” (a-choo) with new ears. And Rob McClure, he of Broadway’s Mrs. Doubtfire and Chaplin, gets every bit of humor and pathos out of Nathan Detroit that’s there to be mined. I also can’t forget Mykal Kilgore’s explosive Nicely-Nicely, who makes “Sit Down You’re Rockin’ the Boat” a gospel revelation of a showstopper. Playing Lt. Brannigan (Josh Davis) as a goofy comic is a rare lapse of taste: He’s got to be a major threat, not so here. But in all other respects it looks great, it sounds great, and it sends you out floating. I adored it.