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align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT face=Georgia>‘The
Choir of Man’ at Playhouse Square a satisfying segue to live theater
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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT color=#222222 face=Georgia>Bob
Abelman</FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=center><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT color=#222222
face=Georgia>Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning
Journal</FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT face=Georgia>“The Choir of Man,” now
playing at Playhouse Square, is the perfect placeholder for those starved for
live theater and desperate for mask-free indoor entertainment.
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face=Georgia><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial">This
lightweight 90-minute show<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">is one part boy band cover concert and two parts
feel-good group therapy session</SPAN><SPAN
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color=#222222>. <SPAN> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">The production consists of nine amiable
twenty-to-thirty-somethings hanging out in an alehouse and working their way
through a jukebox song list. </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT
color=#333333>These highly diverse offerings are the equivalent
of<SPAN> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">a mix
tape that has something for everyone but will most likely enthrall no one.
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color=#222222>Jack Blume’s r</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">udimentary choreography – plenty of stomping,
strutting, and synchronized stepping – is executed with so much energy and
abandon that it appears to be a greater achievement than it really is.
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT face=Georgia>All this works, in large part
because the show’s calculated joyousness, well-rehearsed spontaneity, and
infectious exuberance is delivered by very talented, predominantly British and
Irish performers. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "></SPAN></P>
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face=Georgia><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">The show also works because
the world is pivoting out of a pandemic. Audiences are so thirsty for live
entertainment that we are willing to<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
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color=#202124>crawl through the desert that is still Playhouse Square and
eagerly drink the sand. Fortunately, free beer is offered to wash it down
with.</FONT></SPAN></FONT><I><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT color=#222222 face=Georgia>For more of this review,
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