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delightful deception at Playhouse Square</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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face=Georgia>The Mentalist. The Trickster. The Daredevil. The Elusive. The
Manipulator. The Showman. The Transformationalists. </FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Georgia>No, these are not new recruits to the Marvel and D.C. comic-book
universes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But the hyperbolic
publicist who promotes their blockbuster films may well be doing freelance for
these master illusionists, who are on tour for a limited
now-you-see-them-now-you-don’t engagement at Playhouse Square.
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; LETTER-SPACING: 0.3pt; mso-bidi-font-family: arial">According
to the press release, “</SPAN><SPAN
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Live From Broadway” is a “<SPAN
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spectacular” that is “packed with thrilling and sophisticated magic of
unprecedented proportions” that “dazzles audiences of all ages.”<SPAN
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face=Georgia>That isn’t smoke and mirrors.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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more of this review, go to: </SPAN><SPAN
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