Oh dear, Ben, he's doing you wrong

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, January, 2006 | by Toby Zinman

Like Elvis impersonators, Benjamin Franklin impersonators are a dime a dozen. This one should have left the building while the leaving was good.

Josh Kornbluth, monologist, began his Ben career, to hear him tell it, while shaving one morning, contemplating his aimless life.

Suddenly, like a bolt of lightning, it came to him: He looks like Ben Franklin! Surely this can be marketed! And so the two-hour-long Ben Franklin: Unplugged was created; first performed in 1998, this presentation by Philadelphia Theatre Company at Plays & Players Theater launches its East Coast tour just in time for B.F.'s 300th birthday.

A Founding Father deserves better. A Favorite Son deserves better. A nice cake, maybe, a coupla candles...

The show's premise is that Kornbluth...

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