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THIS 'CHERRY ORCHARD' MORE THAN RIPE FOR THE PICKING.(U)

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From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date: 20060215
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Byline: Evan Henerson Theater Critic

THAT GLORIOUSLY gloomy Anton Chekhov - how he still manages to make actors salivate and induce potential audiences to reach for their plastic. Word on the Center Theatre Group Web site is that the new production of Chekhov's ``The Cherry Orchard,'' directed by Sean Mathias at the Mark Taper Forum, is expected to sell out its run by, oh, just about the time you're reading this.

How could it be otherwise? We Angelenos never could get enough of watching a stagnant aristocratic family proceeding, delusions fully intact, into a kind of ...

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