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'Carol Burnett Sketches'

Article from: Post-Tribune (IN) Article date: March 30, 2007

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Steve Elser hides from a spider in "The Exterminator," a sketch featured in "An Evening of Carol Burnett Sketches Part 2." M&M Productions presents the program at 7:30 tonight and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at Center Stage Studio Theatre, 227 Center St., Hobart. Tickets are $9 per person. For more information, call 947-4922.(PHOTO - Cutline only) (PHOTO PROVIDED)

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