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M For Murder’ fails to connect<SPAN style="mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; 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
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News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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International Association of Theatre Critics <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">It
is no mystery that Frederick Knott’s “Dial M For Murder” is more psychological
thriller than murder mystery.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">After
all, in the early-1950s, this long-running hit at London’s West End and on
Broadway was turned into an Alfred Hitchcock film and the great Hitchcock didn’t
dabble in things that were not disturbingly psychological and fundamentally
thrilling.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Unlike
the plays of Agatha Christie, where a body is discovered and everything about
its demise remains a mystery until the end, Knott’s “Dial M For Murder” reveals
from the get-go that former tennis star Tony Wendice is planning to kill his
wealthy wife.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The
playwright even lets us in on Tony’s detailed and devious plans – the blackmail,
the extravagant set up, the foolproof alibi, and the meticulous staging of the
murder itself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And then we watch it
all unfold in the living room of the Wendices’ sophisticated London
apartment.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The
only mystery is what the good folks at Great Lakes Theater have in store to keep
the plot twists camouflaged, make the abrupt turns sufficiently disorienting,
and serve up Tony’s pathology in a fresh and interesting way.<SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">As
it turns out, what they have in store is not nearly enough.<SPAN
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more of this review, go to:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <A
href="http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/features/great-lakes-theater-s-dial-m-for-murder-fails-to/article_eaf55c5c-c12d-11e4-939a-6bb73bd8a947.html">http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/features/great-lakes-theater-s-dial-m-for-murder-fails-to/article_eaf55c5c-c12d-11e4-939a-6bb73bd8a947.html</A></SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>