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February 9, 2010

"Wake" at the Purple Rose

A joke with no punchline

by Sally Mitani

posted 8/12/2009

Wake doesn't live up to Michigan playwright Carey Crim's first play, Growing Pretty, which made its debut last spring at the Purple Rose. Growing Pretty followed a misfit teenager as she bloomed into a successful artist because of, or in spite of, a lecherous mentor. It was a simple story, but an unexpected one: its main character was both unique

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