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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">‘An Ideal Husband’
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Bob
Abelman<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal align=center><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">News-Herald,
Chagrin Valley Times, Solon Times, Geauga Times
Courier<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Member,
International Association of Theatre Critics <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal align=center><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">This
preview appeared in the <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">News-Herald
</I></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">9/24/10<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN"
lang=EN><FONT size=3>“Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we
do.”<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><FONT size=3><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN"
lang=EN>National Enquirer</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang=EN>
headline for the next round of Tiger Woods bashing?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Last minute confession by Cuyahoga
County Auditor Frank Russo?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Lindsay
Lohan’s bumper sticker?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-ansi-language: EN"
lang=EN><FONT size=3>Actually, this quote comes from Oscar Wilde’s play <I>An
Ideal Husband</I>, written in 1895, about how the mighty fall.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Clearly, some things never change.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-ansi-language: EN"
lang=EN><FONT size=3>Not only do those we place high on a pedestal tend to
teeter and fall; frequently, they are pushed.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Case in point is the recent extortion of
University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino by his co-adulterer.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The blackmailing of comedian David
Letterman by a CBS news producer also comes to mind, as does Wilde’s play, in
which our hero—a wealthy politician—is blackmailed by one of the “beautiful
idiots” that populate this social satire.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-ansi-language: EN"
lang=EN><FONT size=3>“The importance of being earnest in our public and private
lives is an evergreen theme,” notes Lakeland Community College theatre director
Martin Friedman, who is spearheading the upcoming production of <I>An Ideal
Husband</I>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Adds Friedman, “for
something over 100 years old, this is a surprisingly contemporary
piece.”<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Fate catches up
to Government Minister Sir Robert Chiltern when a letter that reveals a past
misdeed avails itself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sir Chiltern
must choose between a very public scandal and the private shame of his wife, who
thought she had married an ideal husband.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">As with other
works by Oscar Wilde, this one is chockfull of wit aimed at the superficial and
intellectually shallow people that populate the planet.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And, in true Wilde fashion, virtually
every character is revealed to be not what they seem.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However, </SPAN><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"
lang=EN>An Ideal Husband</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'" lang=EN> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">is also a political mystery.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As such, it a tad more serious than the
more frequently produced <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Importance
of Being Earnest</I>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>The Lake Civic
Theatre production features Jeffery Grover as Sir Robert Chiltern, Diane Mull as
Lady Chiltern and Jennifer Davies as the evil Mrs. Cheveley, whose blackmail
scheme demands that Sir Chiltern use his influence in the Parliament to support
a project she's invested in.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Doug
Kusak plays the absurd Viscount Goring.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Other performers include Michael Rogan, Maria Thomas Lister and Katherine
DeBoer.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">“Politics is the
theme of our current theatre season,” notes Friedman, “and </SPAN><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"
lang=EN>An Ideal Husband</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> fits right in.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The stage has forever been a place where
political issues have not only been examined but dissected and satirized.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Given the upcoming elections, The
Lakeland Civic Theatre stage is primed and ready to put politics into
perspective.” <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Details<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">What:<SPAN
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lang=EN>An Ideal Husband</SPAN></I><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">W</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">hen: <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Today through October 10 (Fridays
and Saturdays, 7:30 p.m., Sunday<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Matinees, 2
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Where:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Lakeland<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Civic Theatre, 7700 Clocktower Drive,
Kirtland.</SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Tickets:
$</SPAN><SPAN
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for adults, $12 for seniors and $5 for students.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All matinees are $5
for </SPAN><SPAN
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