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Wright State University Theatre\u2019s season-opening production of \u201cDeath of a Salesman\u201d isn\u2019t a musical, but you might suspect otherwise.<\/p>\n
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 \u201cSweeney Todd,\u201d and Lee Merrill, a WSU music faculty associate who has had leading roles in opera and musical theater across the country.<\/p>\n
The director is Greg Hellems, who staged the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra and Wright State production of Leonard Bernstein\u2019s \u201cMass\u201d at the Schuster Center last season.<\/p>\n
But the play is Arthur Miller\u2019s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of 1949 about the impact of a traveling salesman\u2019s failures on his family.<\/p>\n
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