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Show 'Carats' dynamite at 138 keeps you on the edge of your seat laughing. It is all told as a good story should be, not dependent on a big finish, but built skillfully part by part. It's like Neil Simon's plays that take place in a living room apartment apart-ment in New York, but no one should get claustrophobia because of that. It is an irresistible kind of comedy that you've always thought would be fun to see. It's advised to take along a good audience. The one on Friday was laughing at the ushers on the way in, which surely helped the actors to deliver as they would like to. "Forty Carats", iplays Friday and Saturday nights through Dec. 16. Tickets are $3.00, $2.00 students, and $1.00 for children and senior citizens. by JOHN HOUSTON Chronicle Staff ' far all these years of being "comfortable while watching half-baked performances at 138, they've finally come 'Nth a show you ought to see. 7 Carats" is dynamite. It es a 40-year-old woman and y in two unconventional "ces. Beverly Rowland plays lead of Ann Staley, the dowdy ty. who thinks that romance is passed her by and who is Renter of two rather different attentions. Bruce Robinson "'"wre amorous of the two, as her P'aybV Wh 'S m8d J1 ing that makes this play oW, svntriesis . of good J around these two who "J ate what would have been 3 ory. Barbara Danielson, Duti-h ' Stu Falcoher, Teri ! Jh'andJenna Lee Soeffker fill ;Wa!gWi,h 9reat charac-rCrfPVupasa charac-rCrfPVupasa "teed success. They all play crBkkin?,peopiewho that u 6 dlCe and marbles v ml 'S 6 real comedy. This because tha actors ev ma?ething haPPen everytime nale an entrance.. It really |