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Heck, a little handshake with Satan might have kept the city from dropping in on March 21 to check out someone else in the building, leaving a cease-and-desist order for V&V just one day after Devil’s Sonata started previews. It might have prevented a visit from the cops, brandishing a Sun-Times article about the show, 15 minutes before curtain on opening night, when the audience had to swear that none of them had been asked to drop a dime in the donation box. Suffering this exquisite can only mean Beckman is on the path to heaven. As for the show, it runs through April 27 with Tartini’s music, Poi Dog Pondering violinist Susan Voelz, and a nice set by Susan Kaip to recommend it; after that maybe Glinski will cut his own Faustian deal. At press time Beckman and V&V artistic director Brian Alan Hill were hoping Strawdog would get a dispensation from the city that would allow them to start charging. If not, Beckman says they’ll finish the run anyway. “We explored all the scenarios,” he adds. “We thought about selling a $15 program, a $15 bottle of water. The Department of Revenue said no, it’s all the same thing.”
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