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Article: Will actor Frank Ferrante bring Groucho back to life? You bet your life!(Time Out!)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- June 14, 2002
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Byline: Jack Helbig Daily Herald Correspondent
Some people spend half their lives trying to figure out what they want to do. Actor/director Frank Ferrante, whose one-man show, "An Evening with Groucho," runs this weekend only at the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in Arlington Heights, knew when he was 9 years old. That was the year Ferrante saw the Marx Brothers' film, "A Day at the Races."
"It left such an impression on me," Ferrante said, "that when I went to bed, my brother Tony and I re-enacted scenes from the movie. I was Groucho and he was Chico. We did the whole Tootsie- Frootsie Ice Cream scene."
From that day on Ferrante was hooked ...
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... ... in just to see what Groucho would do next," Ferrante said. Ferrante's ... year-old Frank Ferrante starred as Groucho, from ages 15 to 85 ... years later, Frank Ferrante created "An Evening With Groucho." The one-man show ...
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