"Laughing With Tears" (2006) used invigorating klezmer music by Leo Chelyapov for a deft, tongue-in-cheek suite in which everyone initially wore black coats and hats while cheerfully amalgamating traditional Jewish lore and Slavic folk dancing with an arsenal of taps...it belonged to the musical comedy world, body and soul."

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