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Great Lakes Theatre?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A
contemporary, gender-bending ‘Julius Caesar’ </FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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face=Georgia>Bob Abelman</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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face=Georgia>Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning
Journal</FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN
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downside of repertory productions at Great Lakes Theatre is half-expecting the
angry mob in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” who alternately perform in Meredith
Willson’s “The Music Man” on the same stage, to break into a roaring rendition
of “Shipoopi” during Mark Antony’s proclamation of coming to bury Caesar, not
praise him.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Georgia><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: arial">That is the only downside,
for the theatrical transformation from sunny </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ">River City, Iowa in 1912 to a problematic Rome, Italy
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color=#222222>in 44 BCE – where the </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ">trouble that rhymed with “P” and stood for pool now stands
for persecution and political </SPAN><SPAN
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color=#222222>conspiracy – is a complete one.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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more of this review, go to: </SPAN><SPAN
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