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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Cleveland Play House delivers a
delightful ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ </FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Bob Abelman</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald,
The Morning Journal</FONT></FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN style="COLOR: "></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Member, International Association of
Theatre Critics</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: "></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Although it is not unusual for the
Cleveland Play House to stage musicals, most are biographical and serve to tell
the life story of legendary singers like Mahalia Jackson, Woody Guthrie, and
five guys named Moe.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">It is the exception when the CPH brain
trust chooses a mainstream musical.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is rarer still when they color outside the lines and stage something
as outrageously campy and quirky as</FONT><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> <SPAN>Howard Ashman </SPAN>and </FONT><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Alan Menken’s dark musical comedy “Little Shop of
Horrors.” </FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><SPAN><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The show is sown from the seeds of <SPAN>Roger Corman’s
low-budget, non-musical 1960 </SPAN>movie </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">about a meek Skid Row flower
shop clerk named Seymour who discovers a mysterious, man-eating plant that
transforms his life in exchange for the lives of his acquaintances.</FONT><SPAN
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" color=#252525>The musical played
Off-Broadway for five years in the 1980s, was made into a star-studded feature
film in 1986, and had a short-lived Broadway stint in
2003.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" color=#252525>The thing is, the CPH
doesn’t really resort to “campy” and it doesn’t settle for “quirky,” not with a
Tony Award on its mantel and the words “stimulate as well as entertain” in its
mission statement.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" color=#252525>And so Amanda Dehnert was
invited back to Cleveland to direct, choreograph and musical direct “Little Shop
of Horrors.” </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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