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A NEW HOME; Great Guthrie, it's `Gatsby'; For the first play in its new $125 million theater, the Guthrie has reached back for talent with local ties - F. Scott Fitzgerald.(NEWS)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20060210
Author:Preston, Rohan

Byline: Rohan Preston; Staff Writer

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Rattling conventional expectations, the Guthrie Theater has selected a new adaptation of "The Great Gatsby" - not a Shakespearean play - for the first mainstage production in its new $125 million riverfront complex. The choice of "Gatsby," the signature novel of the Jazz Age by St. Paul native F. Scott Fitzgerald, makes an important statement about the broadening mission of the playhouse. Classic repertory has been the Guthrie's bread and butter since its founding by Irishman Tyrone Guthrie. (The Guthrie opened with ...

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