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face=Arial>Ice fishing musical ‘Guys on Ice’ more bait than bite, but its charm
is reeling</FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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face=Arial>Bob Abelman</FONT></SPAN></P>
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Critics</FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial>It’s not like we weren’t warned.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial>In the playbill’s “Notes from the Director,” MaryJo Alexander informs
us that the show we’re about to see is “not Shakespeare or Sondheim.”<SPAN
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face=Arial>And during the pre-show announcements, after we’ve been reminded that
photographs are forbidden and season subscriptions to Actors’ Summit are
available, Alexander encourages the audience to groan in unison at the handful
of bad fish jokes she tells.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Why
are fish so smart?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They’ve been
schooled.”</FONT></SPAN></P>
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so the tone has been set for the evening’s entertainment, which is a
light-weight musical comedy by Fred Alley and James Kaplan called “Guys on Ice.”
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And, yes, the words are not poetry,
the songs are not stellar, and the humor certainly produces </SPAN><SPAN
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color=#222222>inarticulate cries of disapproval and disappointment more often
than not</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LETTER-SPACING: 0.3pt"><FONT face=Arial>But under
Alexander’s direction, this odd collection of caricatures, novelty numbers and
one-liners about hooks, lines and sinkers comes across as remarkably
charming.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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more of this review, go to </SPAN><SPAN
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color=#0563c1>www.clevelandjewishnews.com/columnists/</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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