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Article: GLASSER'S `GLASS MENAGERIE' DEPARTING REP DIRECTOR INJECTS MAGIC, MUSIC INTO TENNESSEE WILLIAMS PLAY.(LIFESTYLE)
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- The Capital Times
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- April 10, 2002
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Byline: Kevin Lynch The Capital Times
Scott Glasser is leaving the Madison Repertory Theatre like a master magician, conjuring one grand illusion before he vanishes. The retiring artistic director is aiming to turn Tennessee Williams' poetic, faintly soapy "The Glass Menagerie" into a reverberating experience of theater and music.
"Some people have said, why that war horse?" Glasser says, with a tinge of defiance. "I say, you've never seen it like this before."
The play has been fodder for countless high school and college productions. The sad, almost virginal family saga is far less decadent than Williams' most famous plays, "Cat on a Hot Tin ...