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Article: It's All Laughs at the Mortuary
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- Forward
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- October 7, 1994
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Rachel Blustain
Forward
10-07-1994
It's All Laughs at the Mortuary.
We're attending "Grandma Sylvia's Funeral," a family gathering, an interactive comedy, and I'm squirming in my seat, hoping not to be noticed, hoping to avoid speaking to the whole cast of dysfunctional characters.
No luck. Even before the play begins, here comes the sex-crazed, in-from-L.A. grandson, Todd Grossman (Barry Weinberger), sauntering over for the second time, flirting in character and asking our names. I know we're doomed, I know as surely as I know my own name, which I foolishly tell him, again. We're in trouble, I say to a friend. We're getting sucked right into this play. And we do.
Which is, indeed, the point. ...
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