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'Adventures In Mating' IBJ.com Review
8/23/08
IBJ.com
by Lou Harry
“Adventures in Mating,” had a fun gimmick but nothing to fill it. The
premise is that a couple meets for a blind-date meal. Whenever a choice
needs to be made (red vs. white wine, she kisses him/she slaps him), the
waiter rings a bell and the audience makes a choice. Problem is, the
characters are so broadly painted (both in the writing and the performing)
that I didn’t care about whether or not they got together. The nearly full
house was generous and seemed to have a good time while I had flashbacks to
last season and remembered the Owensboro, Kentucky’s Merely Players weren’t
funny then, either. The company’s founding artistic director, Alan Velotta,
does a solid job as the waiter and deserves better.
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