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class=MsoNormal align=center><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">This review will
appear in the <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Cleveland Jewish News
</I>on 7/4/14</SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black">If bellbottoms with
matching turtlenecks, miniskirts with tall white boots, or anything paisley were
ever in your wardrobe, then you are the target audience for <SPAN
class=apple-converted-space>“</SPAN><EM><SPAN
style="BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-STYLE: normal; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; BORDER-TOP: windowtext 1pt; BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-TOP: 0in; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Back
to Bacharach and David”</SPAN></EM> – a </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #333333">musical revue of the
Top 40 hits</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black">
generated by composer Burt Bacharach and lyricist Hal David.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #333333"><FONT size=3>Compiled
by Kathy Najimy and Steve Gunderson, the show was given a limited off-Broadway
run in the 1990s that worked way too hard at infusing each tale of love or
love’s labor’s lost with theatricality and an overbearing sense of 1960’s and
‘70’s nostalgia. More recent productions of the work done elsewhere often do the
same.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #333333"><FONT
size=3>Thankfully, the rendition currently on display at Actors’ Summit and
directed by MaryJo Alexander simply allows the material to speak for
itself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #333333"><FONT size=3><SPAN
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #333333"><FONT size=3>Void of
meaningless banter, overly clever staging or some inane storyline used to segue
one song to the next, this production places four very talented singers (Chanda
Porter, Debra Rose, Lisa Marie Schuller and Brandon Isner), some percussion
(Scott Sexton) and a piano (J.T. Buck) on a stage and lets them deliver the
goods.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #333333"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN> </P>
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size=3>Bacharach and David's music is best characterized by its cool syncopated
rhythms and sophisticated chord progressions usually associated with jazz.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Their easy-listening songs, typically recorded
by solo artists, have been rearranged by Gunderson to also accommodate gorgeous
four-part harmonies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Several songs with
similar melodies, such as “A House is Not Home”/“One Less Bell to Answer” and
“Close to You”/“This Guy’s in Love,” are beautifully interwoven.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: #252525"><FONT
size=3><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN> </P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: #252525"><o:p><FONT
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: #252525"><FONT
size=3>In all, 25 of the writing team’s best, most recognizable songs are
presented in 75 minutes without pause, pretention or
overproduction.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: #252525"><FONT
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: #252525"><FONT
size=3>The stage has a partition designed with multi-hued squares placed behind
the band with several similarly colored cubes scattered about the performance
space.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Choreography is limited to small,
synchronized backup singer movements ala <SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Gladys Knight’s pips.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: #252525"><FONT
size=3><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></SPAN> </P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: #252525; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">This
production is corny but </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: #252525">charming
and so intimate that it feels as if you are sitting at </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #333333">a piano bar.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All that’s missing is the pretzels and
highballs.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">WHAT:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>“Back to Bacharach and David<SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">WHERE:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"></SPAN>Actors’
Summit, </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Greystone Hall in
downtown Akron<SPAN
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<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">WHEN:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"></SPAN>Through
July 20<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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