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face=Georgia>‘Tintypes’ at Actors’ Summit is a plague upon our houses
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face=Georgia><FONT color=#111111>The eighth biblical plague that tortured Egypt
was locusts.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If the musical revue
had been invented back then, the Egyptians would have caved quicker and Exodus
10:5 would have been a much shorter read.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Georgia><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#111111>Popular
during the Golden Age of bad entertainment, the musical revue is the ugly
ancestor of musical theater sans </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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soul</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-bidi-font-family: arial">
and</SPAN><SPAN
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substance</SPAN><SPAN
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-bidi-font-family: arial">Its place of
performance has been largely reduced to c</SPAN><SPAN
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ships, amusement parks and, inexplicably, Akron.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Tintypes,” which </SPAN><SPAN
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color=#222222>offers us a tour through turn of the 19<SUP>th</SUP> century
American history by way of 49 mostly public domain songs </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: arial'>from
1890 to 1917, is currently on stage at Actors’ Summit.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Georgia>Linking the musical revue to locusts is a stretch, but “Tintypes”
compares favorably to the plague of cicadas presently invading Northeast Ohio.
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: arial'>While
the cicadas surface every 17 years and live for only a few weeks at most,
“Tintypes”– which was conceived </SPAN><SPAN
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color=#222222>by Mary Kyte with musical arrangements by Mel Marvin and Gary
Pearle – appeared on Broadway in 1980 and </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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color=#222222>for only 93 performances.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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color=#111111>Both the cicada and “Tintypes” are small in size and stature, have
no bite or sting, and represent the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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most primitive and least attractive form of their species.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Georgia>Actors’ Summit’s staging is particularly unattractive.<SPAN
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