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    The First Wives Club

    Less than a year after the debut of Dolly Parton’s "9 to 5: The Musical," here's another pre-Broadway tuner based on a film comedy from yesteryear about fed-up women scheming to wreak revenge upon chauvinist-pig men.

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    Lyric Is Waiting

    Michael Puzzo's new play is a pretentious misfire.

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    Dreyfus in Rehearsal

    This capable revival of Garson Kanin's unsuccessful Broadway swansong can't undo the original verdict.

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    Burn the Floor

    This dazzling Latin and ballroom dance revue is brilliantly performed by a cast of international dancesport champions.

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    Lorna's Silence

    There's a cold-bloodedness to "Lorna's Silence," the latest film from French filmmaking brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.

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    A Hatful of Rain

    Michael Gazzo's play, written in the early 1950s, had innocence on its side then, which negates its impact on today's audience.

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    Wife Swappers

    George Bush, the love of Jesus, patriotism, the institution of heterosexual marriage, right-wing conservatism, and couples playing switcheroo with multiple sex partners are all present and accounted for in writer-director Justin Tanner's comedic one-act, "Wife Swappers."

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    God Box

    As far as most of the autobiographical information goes, Ana Guigui's 90-minute one-woman show covers well-tread, yet interesting, territory.

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    The Pain and the Itch

    Reasonably affluent theatergoers who espouse liberal sociopolitical views might be taken aback to find themselves the key satiric target of Bruce Norris' savage dark comedy, "The Pain and the Itch."

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    Twelfth Night

    You never quite get how truly brutal Shakespeare is on the pompous, social-climbing sourpuss Malvolio in "Twelfth Night" until you watch a true craftsman like Patrick Page (of Broadway's "The Grinch") ply his trade.