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From: AP Online
Date: 19980622
Author:MICHAEL KUCHWARA AP Drama Critic

MICHAEL KUCHWARA AP Drama Critic
AP Online
06-22-1998
NEW YORK (AP) _ The strain shows in the Roundabout Theater Company's busy revival of ``You Never Can Tell,'' George Bernard Shaw's comedy in which love triumphs over reason _ not to mention the objections of mother and father.

The uneven production, which opened Sunday at the Laura Pels Theater, tries very hard to please, but in its eagerness to ingratiate itself with the audience, trips over the plot, admittedly not the tiptop Shaw of ``Major Barbara,'' ``Pygmalion,'' ``Man and Superman'' or ``Saint Joan.''

Director Nicholas ...

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