Pacino's pound of flash
It's Rosh Hashanah -- but the only Jew on Broadway who's celebrating is Shylock. Al Pacino, as Shakespeare's complex villain in The Merchant of Venice, has racked up by far the highest advance of any show opening in the fall.
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