Iron Curtain

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It's a mystery to me why Iron Curtain, a highly polished revival of Prospect Theater Company's hilarious 2006 hit about two song-and-dance men conscripted to Moscow during the Cold War, should be in the Baruch Performing Arts Center -- and not, say, Broadway.

There's some irony implicit there -- and designer Brian Prather rolls with the space's physical limitations to suggest the strictures of socialist agitprop. Choreographer Christine O'Grady and costumer Sidney Shannon play along, creating a rib-cracker of a proletarian dance number which features a "wheat ballerina," en pointe, trying to elude the pointy end of a pitchfork.

Later, at the other aesthetic extreme, the team -- under Ca[...]