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'Adventures In Mating'
Nuvo Review
8/27/08
Nuvo Magazine
by Josefa Beyer
Three and a Half Stars
When Jeffrey (Kevin Roach) meets his blind date at a restaurant, she is
armed with pop quizzes and questionnaires to determine if he is marriage
material. Despite his physical bumbling and boyish looks, the unemployed
manatee sex expert tries to convince straight-laced Miranda (Rachel Simmons)
that he is the dark and dangerous "bad boy" to upset her monogamous plans.
The snooty, and therefore British, waiter (Alan Velotta) acts as referee,
inviting the audience to direct scene changes. Will Miranda kiss Jeffrey or
slap him? The audience decides. Joseph Scrimshaw's likeable, if stretched,
comic sketch is enjoying an open-ended run in Minneapolis and New York City.
Here, Roach is super charming and all three players get the most out of
references to dreaded locales with exotic names like Terre Haute and
Bloomington.
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