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Fringe Festival faves New Paradise Laboratories showed no Philly love for Prom, which premièred to great acclaim way out in Minneapolis in 2004, but they're finally making up for it by remounting what artistic director Whit MacLaughlin terms "a work of fake anthropology for young adults" with Drexel University's Mandell Professionals in Residence Project. A comic take on that bloated high school rite of passage — staged as a sporting event, students vs. chaperones! — expect Prom to be as physical, sensual, musical and mysterious as NPL hits Batch: An American Bachelorette Party Spectacle and The Fab Four Reach the Pearly Gates.
April 30-May 11, New Paradise Laboratories, Mandell Theater, Drexel University, 3300 Chestnut St., 215-923-0334, newparadiselaboratories.org.
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