Conflating one into two

[Jonathan Lighter]

> Dedicated to Jon Lighter.
Gosh, Joel, I don't quite know what to say...(sniff!).

JL

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Alison Murie <sagehen7470 at att.net> wrote:

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> On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> > Dedicated to Jon Lighter.
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> > From the review in the Boston Globe today of "The Donkey Show"
> > (American Repertory Theater's transliteration of "A Midsummer Night's
> > Dream" into the disco world of the 70s), by Don Aucoin:
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> > "The part of Bottom is conflated into two guys named Vinnie, who look
> > and act like characters out of 'Saturday Night Fever.'"
> >
> > Page g5, or http://tinyurl.com/kw8wo3 or
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> http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2009/09/14/the_donkey_show_transforms_midsummer_nights_dream_with_a_70s_energy/
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> > Joel
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> Biflated or diflated?
> AM
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