‘Salesman’ leads ready to face music

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Wright State University Theatre’s season-opening production of “Death of a Salesman” isn’t a musical, but you might suspect otherwise.

The cast includes Scott Stoney, whose first big splash on the Dayton stage came three decades ago as a guest artist at Wright State in the title role of “Sweeney Todd,” and Lee Merrill, a WSU music faculty associate who has had leading roles in opera and musical theater across the country.

The director is Greg Hellems, who staged the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra and Wright State production of Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass” at the Schuster Center last season.

But the play is Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of 1949 about the impact of a traveling salesman’s failures on his family.

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