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Pushing the Envelope

Washington Post theater critic Peter Marks hands out his own awards for the most (and least) ovation-worthy moments in Washington's 2007-08 theater season.
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When King David stormed onto the stage

in this bizarre biblical musical, bearing a blood-soaked bag with the foreskins

of 200 enemy combatants, you wanted

to yell, "Cut!" (Ooh. On second thought, maybe not.)

Sexiest pairing

Ben Cunis and Courtney

Pauroso in "Romeo and Juliet"

(Synetic Theater)

You could fall in love with falling in love, thanks to the dewy impression made by this sterling central couple in Synetic's pulse-quickening production.

Princeliest pairing

Ted van Griethuysen

and Helen Carey in


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