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During the second act, I worried — though worry is too strong a word — that maybe this production had become too funny, too lightsome.

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This, along with Joe's lightsome delivery and comportment, makes enough of an impression to cement his presence in scenes even when Emmett is only present in spirit and memory.

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As Allen put it, Douglass “touches chords . . . which vibrate music now sweet, now sad, now lightsome, now solemn, now startling, now grand, now majestic, now sublime.”

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Re-imagining Benny Goodman,” Mr. Etkin, a Israeli clarinetist with a lightsome disposition, pays a contemporary homage to the artist known in his day as the King of Swing.

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Of course, it helps that the play is 50 minutes, but the cast is so agreeable and the script is so lightsome that those minutes fly by.

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