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Musical Aesop keeps fables in tune with times
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20070302
Author:Delia O'Hara
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You have to admit Aesop's Fables has legs. Simple stories that cast animals in the roles of foolish humans and their foils, these stories still pack a punch because human beings aren't really much different from the way they were in Aesop's day, which was probably the 6th century B.C.
Still, some cool new songs can't hurt. Musical-theater writers Michael Mahler and Alan Schmuckler ...
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