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color=#282828>Since the March 13 </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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color=#222222>COVID-induced b</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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color=#282828>an on mass gatherings,</FONT></SPAN><FONT color=#222222><SPAN
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Cleveland’s Playhouse Square</SPAN><SPAN
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color=#282828>has canceled or postponed 680 performances and lost
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color=#222222>nearly $4 million in revenue. <SPAN
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color=#282828>a vaccine, Playhouse Square president and CEO Gina Vernaci, who
oversees its KeyBank Broadway Series, said in a recent press release that “we
anticipate that Broadway will return to our stages in the fall of 2021.”
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color=#282828>In the meantime, there has been no shortage of new stage to small
screen renditions of Broadway plays and musicals provided by subscription-based
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color=#4d5156>streaming services. The latest, </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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color=#282828>“The Prom” and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” premiered on Netflix in
mid-December and remain available for your viewing
pleasure.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Georgia><FONT color=#282828>Of course, that depends on what you define as
pleasurable, for these two Golden Globe nominated offerings could not be more
different in terms of topic, time-period and
temperament.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 8pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><SPAN
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face=Georgia><FONT color=#282828>For more of this review, go to:<SPAN
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</SPAN>clevelandjewishnews.com/columnists/bob_abelman/</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>