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musical ‘The Music Man’ gets a proper staging at Porthouse</FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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face=Georgia>Bob Abelman</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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face=Georgia>Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning
Journal</FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: arial"><FONT face=Georgia>Is there a
better time than now to escape to Meredith Willson’s musical comedy safe-haven
of River City, Iowa in 1912?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Georgia><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: arial">And is there a better place
to do it than at the Porthouse amphitheater</SPAN><SPAN
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color=#1c1e21>, summer home of the Equity actor-enhanced productions of Kent
State University’s musical theater program?</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: arial"><FONT face=Georgia>This is
just the kind of time-honored classic that is squarely in the wheelhouse of
director Terri Kent, choreographer John Crawford-Spinelli and music director
Jonathan Swoboda, who opt for sincerity in their depiction of these people and
their world rather than the satire often attempted by too many others.<SPAN
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>For
more of this review, go to: </SPAN><SPAN
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color=#0000ff>www.clevelandjewishnews.com/columnists/bob_abelman/</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>