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In the past three months, the PAC paid 10 different firms for ad-making, strategizing, consulting and fundraising — $63,425 to Axiom Strategies, $50,129 to Virginia Consulting Group LLC, $49,500 to Creative Direct, $47,555 to Poolhouse, $15,000 to Cherbourg Strategies and Speechwriting, $11,528 to Monumental Consulting, $31,291 to Salem Strategies, $27,700 to E Street Strategies, 25,093 to Socko Strategies and $31,875 to PPG Consulting.

The number is a socko blend of seduction, release and control.

Arnstein, a poker player by trade, here gets his own socko second-act solo, the new “Temporary Arrangement,” that’s staged like a number out of “Guys and Dolls,” with a chorus of dancing gangsters.

As Joanne, Ms. LuPone raises a martini glass in her socko “Ladies Who Lunch” number, with its famed primal scream — “Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh, I’ll drink to that!”

Amid a rollout of socko duets, we were encouraged to relive unforgettable Broadway moments: Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, reuniting for “For Good” from “Wicked”; Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal reprising “Rent’s” “What You Own” and our royal vocal couple, Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell, reconnecting for a goosebump-raising rendition of “Wheels of a Dream” from “Ragtime.”