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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=914301614-17102008>HURRY -- Get Your
Tickets for the Cleveland Play House production of NOISES OFF playing now
through October 26 -- Wall Street Journal drama critic prefers it to many
productions currently on Broadway!</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=914301614-17102008>Terry Teachout,
drama critic for <EM>Wall Street Journal</EM>, sojourned to Cleveland to take in
productions by The Cleveland Play House and Great Lakes Theater Festival.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=914301614-17102008>Read about his trip
to Cleveland on his blog:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=914301614-17102008><A
href="http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2008/10/tt_equipoise.html">http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2008/10/tt_equipoise.html</A> </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=914301614-17102008>and read his RAVE
review of The Cleveland Play House production of NOISES OFF, which appeared in
the October 17 issue of <EM>The Wall Street Journal</EM></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT><SPAN class=914301614-17102008><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=914301614-17102008>[<EM>excerpt</EM>]: "</SPAN>Once the nine doors of
James Leonard Joy's two-story set start slamming, the laughter starts swelling
in a crescendo so protracted that it's a wonder people don't faint in the aisles
from sheer exhaustion.<SPAN class=914301614-17102008> </SPAN>David H. Bell, the
director of this production, is a specialist in musical comedy who doubles as a
choreographer, which may help to explain the miraculous exactitude with which he
has staged <EM>Noises Off</EM>. Every comic bomb goes off at the right
split-second, and no one in the nine-person cast acts as though anything
happening onstage is supposed to be amusing -- the cardinal rule of farce.<SPAN
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<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lisa
Craig</FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial size=2>Public
Relations Manager</FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Cleveland Play House</FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial
size=2>8500 Euclid Avenue</FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Cleveland OH 44106</FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Phone (216) 795-7000 x236</FONT></SPAN><BR><SPAN
lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial size=2>FAX (216) 795-7005</FONT></SPAN> </P>
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