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| | Sister act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | The play takes place on and off camera, and it's meant to be a broad, cheerful parody of TV Christmas specials from the end of the era when variety shows were still performed live. |
 | | There were four authors on the script (Jim Ansart, Joel Benjamin, Steve Silverman, and composer Bret Silverman; Ansart, Benjamin, and Silverman also penned the lyrics), none of whom seems to have taken charge of either the style or the tone. |
 | | Sometimes what we get are exhausted retreads of show-biz comic clichés (mostly revolving around the efforts of the teenage novice, Abigail, to steal focus from the others), but whenever the writers slip in an ad for the Paisley Sisters' sponsor, Plasticon, we're suddenly thrown into the loopy, much harder-edged universe of Saturday Night Live commercials. |
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