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Abelman<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Member, International Association of Theatre Critics
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review will appear in the <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Cleveland
Jewish News </I>on 6/6/14<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Quoting a review from The New York Times, the Beck Center for the Arts
boasts that Theresa Rebeck’s “Seminar” – currently in production on its intimate
Studio Theatre stage – got “big laughs” when it opened on Broadway in 2011.<SPAN
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cited are the critic’s observations that this show is “a breezy comedy” that
employs so many “shortcuts in the ways it defines and manipulates its characters
… </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">that
it feels as if it were written according to some literary equivalent of a
mileage-saving GPS device.”</SPAN><SPAN
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The play, notes the review, is full of
“</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black">verbal
flatulence.” <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black">Yes it is.
And that flatulence is delivered by “</SPAN><SPAN
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varnished papier-mâché figures” </SPAN><SPAN
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play every line for the laugh with “</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">inherent
cartoonishness</SPAN><SPAN
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size=3>Thankfully, Beck Center’s director Donald Carrier chose to go in another
direction.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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size=3>For more of this review, go to:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><A
href="http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/">http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/</A></FONT></SPAN></P>
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