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Venice Theatre's final Stage II production of its 20132014 Season is the "smart, provoca tive"(Variety) collection of vignettes, Parallel Lives, the theatre has announced. The show the Orlando Sentinel called "a kneeslapping, raucous hoot and a half" opened April 10 in the Pinkerton Theatre and will run through Sunday, April 27, a news release says. Tickets are $25 to $28 for adults and $10 to $15 for students; they are on sale at the theatre's box office, online at venice stage.com or available by phone at 4881115. Parallel Lives is a twowoman show origi nally written and performed offBroadway (and on HBO as The Kathy and Mo Show) by comic duo Kathy Najimy and Moe Gaffney, the release notes. Venice Theatre's version stars two performers familiar to local audi ences: Nancy Denton (Hairspray, Random Acts, Second Samuel, Stand by Your Van) and Alison Prouty (Frankenstein, Random Acts, A Behanding in Spokane, The 39 Steps), the release points out. Under the direction of James Bond (a New Yorkbased director in his first outing at Venice Theatre), "they will lead audiences through an outrageous universe where they play women and men struggling through the common rituals of modern life," the release adds. By the end of their performances, Denton and Prouty will have introduced audiences to a couple dozen characters, including a blond college girl, a jock college guy, a Third World farmworker, "two manly men," "two high school girls from New Jersey" and "a wry mother of a 5yearold," the release explains. According to broadwayworld.com, these characters are "vividly imagined" and "appeal ing to audiences of all genders," the release points out. VENICE THEATRE'S STAGE II PRESENTING PARALLEL LIVES Alison Prouty (left) and Nancy Denton (right) play more than 20 characters in Parallel Lives. Contributed photo by Renee McVety Sarasota News Leader April 11, 2014 Page 115