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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT face=Georgia>Now is the
‘Summer’<SPAN style="COLOR: "> of our discontent, on tour at Playhouse
Square</SPAN></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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the film </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">“The Martin” starring
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color=#222222>Matt Damon,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">
</SPAN><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>astronaut
Mark Watney is left for dead on the surface of Mars, but he is very much alive.
While salvaging through the things his colleagues left behind in order to assess
his resources for survival, he comes to realize that his only source of music is
Commander Lewis’ vast collection of disco.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Georgia>“I’m definitely going to die up here,” Watney tells his video
journal. “My God, Commander Lewis, couldn’t you have packed <SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">anything</SPAN> from this
century?”</FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Georgia><SPAN>If you attend the newly touring “Summer: The Donna Summer
Musical” – a bio-musical about the life, times and tunes of the
late-1970s/early-1980s disco icon – and are not a </SPAN><SPAN>huge fans of the
music or the artist, you will certainly relate to Watney’s sense of cultural
deprivation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But even disco
enthusiasts will find that, like Mars, there is a lung-compressing absence of
atmosphere and not nearly enough gravity in this one-act roughly-100 minute
minor work by co-</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">writers Colman
Domingo, Robert Cary and Des McAnuff, who also directs.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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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>