GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE September 22, 2000

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Have fun at this wedding, without having to buy a gift

Tony'n' Tina's Wedding

Hanna Theatre, Cleveland

Reviewed by Anthony Glassman

You're invited to a wedding, where family and friends are joining together to celebrate the union of two people you don't know, played by two actors you probably have never seen, but who you will grow to love by the end of the evening.

Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding is the first production at the newly-remodeled Hanna

Theatre, recently purchased by Playhouse Square.

This campy show starts in a simulated wedding chapel where the ceremony occurs. After the nuptials, guests (audience members) go into the dining hall, where the reception is held.

And they feed you.

Yes, they really do feed you, and give you (cheap) champagne. Okay, so it's American sparkling wine. It still packs a punch, especially when imbibed in great quantities.

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It is a completely interactive experience. The entire wedding party moves freely from table to table, talking to the "guests," urging people to dance, eat, make merry.

More to the point, much of the performance is improvisational, so the show is never exactly the same two nights in a row. You could go to every performance and have a different experience every time.

More importantly, everyone does their job well. Lisa Ray as Tina Vitale is the perfect blushing bride, especially when Tony Nunzio (Ray Ficca) makes a double-entendre out of the marriage vows.

The wedding party is a who's who of Italian-American New York-New Jersey clichés, with a notable lack of mafiosi. The groom's father is married to a young bimbo, modeled after Fran Drescher's Nanny character. The maid of honor is very pregnant, and at the reception laughingly turns down her boyfriend's offer of marriage.

And, just so we could put something about the show in the Gay People's Chronicle, Tina's brother at the end runs off with the cameraman filming the wedding.

It is a night that would best be described as a riotous romp, a frolicking fantasia of familiar scenes. Anyone who has been to a wedding has seen something like this; anyone who has been to a wedding will wish it had been even more like this.

A bravura effort for the re-opened Hanna Theatre, this piece has more audience par-

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Who needs Phantom of the Opera? You don't get to pull off Michael Crawford's mask, but in this you do get to dance with a bridesmaid. Or the bride's brother, certainly an' appealing option.

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