You Can't Touch This.(new musical Eliot Ness in Cleveland)(Brief Article)
American Theatre, September, 2000 by Pierre, Karly
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CLEVELAND, OHIO: Eliot Ness was the cop who managed to bring down Al Capone, America's most notorious mob boss. In the process he made more than a few hoodlums sing like canaries--and now it's Ness's turn. Eliot Ness in Cleveland, a new musical premiering this month at the Cleveland Play House, revolves around Ness's career in that town.
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Book writer Peter Ullian says he shaped the musical to explore Ness's internal clash between human being and hero. "Ness was a man whose self image was defined by his public image," ...
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