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Article: Cyrano de Bergerac Turns 100, as Fresh and Sassy as Ever
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- International Herald Tribune
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- October 15, 1997
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Katherine Knorr
International Herald Tribune
10-15-1997
''Cyrano de Bergerac'' turns 100 this year, none of its brilliant fireworks dimmed. When the play was first staged in December 1897, it was such an extraordinary triumph for Edmond Rostand, who was not yet 30, that in some ways it did him in as a playwright. With three stagings of ''Cyrano'' in Paris this season, along with a historical exhibition, it's difficult to avoid this Everyuglyman recognizable around the world. The big flamboyant production at the Theatre de Chaillot by France's theatrical ringmaster Jerome Savary, starring Francis Huster, manages both to give us a fresh take on a classic role, and also unwittingly to say ...