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Article: Twain's spirit lives on; Hal Holbrook has been performing one-man show for a half-century.(LIVING)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
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- September 20, 2009
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Byline: Richard Duckett
Hal Holbrook has been asked the question before, but still it is a bit of a poser:
If he ever actually Mark Twain because of some miraculous time machine machinations, would he actually like him?
On the one hand, you might say Holbrook has already had plenty of time to get acquainted with the great author and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens (pen name Mark Twain). Twain died in 1910 at 74, but Holbrook, a hale and hearty sounding 84, has been bringing him back to life on the stage on a remarkably regular basis in his one-man show since the 1950s. "Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight!" will be coming to The Hanover Theatre ...